Back of child in a sweater with a striped heart motif on the back and striped sleeves.

Child standing sideways and looking at camera wearing a round-necked cardigan with striped sleeves, contrasting garter stitch edging, and a pocket.

Child with arm around a baby, both seated with backs to camera. Both wearing matching sweaters with natural coloured bodies with a striped heart on the back and stripes sleeves in a gradient of greys.

Side view of kneeling child wearing a sweater with striped sleeves, exposed three-needle bind off shoulder seam and you can see a glimpse of some intarsia colourwork on the back.

Close up shot of child with hand in pocked of hand knit sweater. The sleeves are striped and the sweater has contrasting garter stitch edging.

Baby sweater laid on top of larger child's sweater both with a heart motif on the back and striped sleeves. Small sweater has a gradient of grey yarns while there are green, red, yellow and navy stripes on the larger sweater; both have natural off-white bodies.

Baby on hands and knees showing heart on back of sweater with older child lying on back and laughing with baby.

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Monochrome stripes give a modern twist to the classic heart motif on this birth-to-teen sized jacket. A smart inset pocket and the clever non-flipping hem, cuffs and front bands add the final polish. Swap Hudson Bay Company colours for the black and grey, and no Canadian will be able to resist!

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Construction

Jacket is a very roomy fit; it’s perfect for layers. Worked bottom up in pieces and seamed with modified set-in sleeves. Heart motif on back is worked in intarsia. Front bands and neck edging are applied after assembly.

What's Included

This knitting pattern includes written directions, chart for intarsia motif, front and back images, instructions for both male and female button placement, a schematic with measurements, and thoughtful details.

Sizes + Finished Measurements

To fit 0-6 mo (6-12 mo, 12-24 mo, 2, 4, 6)(8, 10, 12, 14, 16) yrs.
Finished chest circumference: 21 ¼ (23 ½, 25 ¾, 28 ¾, 30 ½, 31 ½)(33 ¼, 35, 37 ¼, 39 ½, 41 ¼)” / 54 (59.5, 65.5, 73, 77.5, 80)(84.5, 89, 94.5, 100.5, 105) cm.
Intended to be worn with 3 to 7″ / 7.5 to 17.5 cm positive ease (less ease for small sizes and more ease for largest sizes).

Yarn

Worsted weight yarn;
Main Colour (natural) 135 (165, 210, 255, 300, 335)(380, 435, 490, 565, 605) yd / 120 (150, 190, 235, 275, 305)(350, 400, 445, 515, 555) m;
CC1 (black) 30 (35, 35, 35, 60, 60)(65, 65, 75, 100, 105) yd / 30 (30, 35, 35, 55, 55)(60, 60, 70, 95, 95) m;
CC2 (charcoal) 20 (40, 45, 45, 45, 60)(75, 75, 75, 80, 120) yd / 20 (35, 40, 40, 40, 55)(65, 70, 70, 75, 110) m;
CC3 (medium grey) 115 (130, 155, 170, 175, 180)(200, 220, 225, 240, 245) yd / 105 (120, 140, 155, 160, 165)(185, 205, 210, 220, 225) m;
CC4 (light grey) 25 (25, 30, 40, 50, 50)(55, 60, 80, 90, 90) yd / 25 (25, 25, 40, 45, 45)(50, 55, 75, 80, 85) m.

Shown in River City Yarns Epic Yarn (100% virgin wool; 200 m / 219 yds per 100 g).

Substitution Notes

The specified yarn is a smooth, 4-ply worsted weight wool. Wool blends and acrylics would also work well for this project. For the smaller sizes a cotton could also work, but perhaps for the larger sizes it might be too heavy. Choose an easy-to-launder yarn because this sweater will get a lot of wear for more than one year because of the generous positive ease. In fact, you could plan for that and add a little length.

Gauge

18 sts and 26 rows = 4″ (10 cm) over St st using larger needles, blocked.

Needles + Notions

3.75 & 4 mm (US 5 & 6) Needles;
Stitch Holders or Scrap Yarn;
Stitch Markers;
5 (5, 6, 6, 7, 8)(8, 9, 10, 10, 10) Buttons 3⁄4″ (20 mm).

Skills

Increases/decreases, three needle bind off, bias bind off (explained), working intarsia from a chart, afterthought pocket, basic modified set-in sleeve sweater construction, worked flat, bottom up.