Front Left & Right (make two)

Set up/Waist band
Using a 4.00 mm needle CO 28[33, 37] sts
Work 2x2 ribbing for 8 rows.

Upper Waist shaping
For the back you will decrease at the beginning and at the end of the row. The front left and the front right you will decrease only once, at each ends. For the Right piece dec. on the right, for the left piece dec on the left.

Work carillon chart 1[2, 1] then work side chart to the next 11[1,5]sts
Inc. 1 st on every 4^th row 5[7, 7] times @ each ends. Maintain side pattern as you increase.

Armhole and neck shaping are work at the same time. Never decrease in the middle of a leaf.

Armhole Shaping
Dec. 2 sts @ armhole, work WS.
(Dec. 1 @ armhole, work WS) x 2
Work 3 rows, on the 4^th row (rs) dec. 1 st
Work 26[32, 36] row straight

Neck Shaping
Place 7[9, 9] on marker, then work RS
Dec. 3 sts, work WS
Dec. 2 sts , work WS
Dec. 1 sts, Work WS
Work 3 rows, on the 4^th row (rs) dec. 1 st.
Work 26 row straight

Shoulder slope

Left front: K to end.
P up to the last 4 sts, w&t,
K to end
P 4 sts before last wrapped sts, w&t
K to end
Purl 3 sts

Right front: K up to the last 4 sts w&t
P to end
K to 4 sts before last wrapped sts, w&t
P to end
K 2 sts.
Place 11[10, 12] sts on marker.
These sts included the W&T stitch.

Please comments if you have any question or suggestion you want to make regarding directions! Stay tunes for tomorrow installment of the back direction.

I just open my Ravelry store and uploaded Spring Vines to the store for your convince! I will upload the free stuff up there as well, so if you are on Ravelry you can hope over and down the the freebies!

The pattern is also available on The Unique sheep, where you can shop for DK weight yarn for the halter vest!

Devin my test knitter made cheat sheet for the pattern so she can keep tracks of all the shaping for the front. She has allowed me to upload/provide that for anyone who buys the pattern. Its a nice little chart she made! Also check out her project page of Spring Vines she keeps excellent notes!

Today post I wanted to give direction on the left and right front of the crop cardi. But I was volunteer to help my friends with a senior design project in the mist of making these charts and putting the material for this post together. Technically I'm writing Tuesday post on Wednesday, but who cares right? I'm posting the chart for the cardi with the keys right now, then I'm off to bed and tomorrow i shall write the front band back direction for you enjoyment!

The Orange line indicate the repeats.

Born from a period of obsession with cropped cardi and shrug, this pattern came into fruition. It took a while to knit it and actually have the pattern written up. Everything takes a long time for me. I have an idea, then I have a problem I have to solve for the idea to work. Once I've solved most of the problem and have complete my own sample, I become somewhat un-interested. This pattern survived, because I've already posted on Ravelry and people seem to be interested in it. I couldn't let you guys down! ^_^

Its very easy to knit, anyone who can do knit, purls, increase and decrease can knit this pattern. The hard part is probably grafting it all together. I'm writing this pattern in three pieces and it will be knit with a straight needle. But anyone who has the ambition to streaks or knit it with a circular needle is encouraged to. When I was knitting this I find it easier to knit one pieces at a time. Because they were small and it made me felt gratified every time I finish a pieces. Which one took me two hours, it took as long as the movies I was watching play.

My original plan was to release it as a pdf for everyone to download. That plans has change, because I'm writing this post. T_T I need traffic to my blog/website so in order to encourage traffic I will be releasing the pattern in five parts. One for each working day of the week. Then I will make the pdf of the pattern available for $1.75. For those who wish to purchase a clean and pretty layout pattern. You will be helping me support my design habits ^_^ The pattern release on the site will still be available.Okay now for the pattern!

Gauge

16 stitches and 24 rows in 4 inches -- worked in stockinette stitch, flat (back and forth)

Materials

Yarn

I used a cream and white color yarn of Yarn: Pisgah Yarn & Dyeing Co., Inc Peaches & Creme Solids. But you could use another Worsted / 10 ply (9 wpi) Or any yarn you like as long as your gauge is the same.

Chest: 28[32, 36, 38, 40, 44, 48] inches

Notions

A pair of straight needles US#6/4.00mm
Waste yarn
Tapestry needle
Stitch marker
Buttons 4 or 8 buttons, If you want to button the cardi up to the top, buy 8 otherwise 4 is fine.

Measurement s[m,l]

Chest: 32[36,40] inches

Tomorrow I will blog about the front left and right piece. Stay tunes! or subscribe :)

Its Finally done! I check, and checked and checked and finally I changed everything that has to be change and sent it to Laura to put up for sale on Monday. I'm so happy that its done. I hope everyone who has been waiting for the pattern will not be disappointed.

Thank you Devin SO much for testing and working to sort out little minor detail! You brought so much clarity to the pattern that I left out. You were the perfect test knitter for my first pattern ever! I owe you great thanks!

Bust circumference
30(32, 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44, 46, 48, 50)

Waist
12.5(13.5, 14, 15, 15.8, 16.7, 18,19, 20, 21.3, 22)

Yarn Requirement
The Unique Sheep Silk Twist 2( 2, 3, 3, 4, 4, 5, 5, 6, 6, 7)

About the pattern
Its a Raglans style yoke with waist shaping and three different cable chart for different sets of sizes. One for size 30,32 and 34. One fore size 36,38 and 40. One for size 42,44,46,48 and 50 The back is work with a seed stitch boarding the left and right and plain stockinette in the center. The front is work in a combination of seeds sts, and knits and purls, that set up for working the cable charts. Shaping for the front leaves a bell shape, triangle at the the bottom princesses seam. The neckline work with 1x1 ribbing pattern. The border at the arm hole is incorporated in the pattern as the seed stitches at each ends.

Technique required
Cable
Reading charts
Multiple shaping @ once
Grafting
Ribbing

You can buy the pattern and yarn at The Unique Sheep online store

Ravelry Download
Purchase through Ravelry, you will receive an automated download link, and the pattern will be saved to your library! Payment is through Paypal, credit card or balance transfer.

I can't tell you what I'm knitting, but I think its okay for me to post a teaser picture of the yarn I'm using. The color is so pretty. I'm always surprise when I see the pattern variegated color makes when you knit them. Sometime its not as pretty but let me assured you that this variegated color knitted out like the violet, orange yellow that you see in a sun set in a wave.

This yarn has one of my favorite shade of violet! can you guess which one?

I also finished a pattern today! so proud of myself :)

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The photos on The Unique Sheep site for this yarn does not do it justice! This is a really soft SOFT yarn. I am a newbie when it comes to animal fiber. But i have had several sweater that said "wool" on them and they were pretty itchy!!!

But this super wool yarn by the unique sheep is NOT itchy, its a soft dk weight yarn. Great for making cable sweater because it won't make the recipient too bulk looking. You know if you use a worsted weight you add an inch to your actual body mass! Well maybe not really an entire inch, but when ever I wore a top in worsted weight it made my boobs look much bigger in the mirror than they ought to be!

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I was test knitting the Autumn Gold Shawl by Janine Le Cras last month and took some picture of it. But I didn't get around to posting them! So here they are.

We shoot all three, piece at the Kanapaha Botanical Gardens (herb garden section) We thought some of those herb didn't look like herbs at all. The look more like nuisance weeds and they smell weird! I guess I'm not as educated in this subject to be a critic. Anyway Thank you Chris for putting up with me for 2 hours! You are the best!

I Must tell you when I got this yarn from laura and kelly I went goo goo gaa gaa over it! I was smelling it and showing my boyfriend, and telling my sister how awesome it was. I blogged about this in my other perivouse entry, but somehow the smell of tencel is so alluring to me. It think this yarn takes color very well and VERY shinny. Its a great alternative to silk, if you are on a budget and want to get the most for your money!

To see more photo that I uploaded click on the picture to your right and it shall lead you to the flickr photo steam!