We knit a cocoon cardigan with our own hands

2024 Author: Sierra Becker | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-26 03:47

The fashion industry offers us many interesting and original things that are so simple that even beginners can do it. In the material presented below, we study the technology of making a cocoon cardigan. The reader can choose the instrument himself. Our master class is universal and will help you fulfill the idea both with knitting needles and with a hook.

Preparation

To create a really beautiful product, you need to work hard at the preparatory stage. Start by choosing a pattern. In this case, each needlewoman can rely on her own taste. The main thing is to compare the rapport of the selected pattern with the calculations, the technology of which we will study a little later. And it is also worth considering that for knitting patterned cocoon cardigans, you should choose plain yarn. However, it can be pastel shades or saturated acidic.

If a person who is just starting to get acquainted with the basics of knitting is going to knit the product under study, it is wiser to focus on unusual yarn. For example, patchworkmotley, gradient and so on. In this case, it is permissible to alternate front and back rows, or knit on both sides only with front loops.

Features of model measurement

Cocoon cardigan, of course, refers to products that are called oversized. But despite this, knitting it, as they say, at random, is completely unreasonable. Therefore, further we will find out what parameters are required in order to make a product that fits the figure exactly. There are only two of them:

• product width - from the base of the neck to the intended bottom edge;
• product length - from the intended end of one sleeve to the other (hands spread apart parallel to the floor).

Technology for calculating loops and rows

Regardless of whether the cocoon cardigan is made with a crochet or knitting needles, the mathematical calculations preceding the work will be identical. But first you need to prepare a square sample of the selected pattern. For knitting the product under study, a fragment of 10x10 centimeters is enough.

We prepare it, count the number of loops and rows, and then divide by 10. As a result, we find out how many necessary units fit in one centimeter. Now we divide the width of the product by the number of loops, and the length by the rows. We write two new values. After all, it is they who will help us knit the desired wardrobe item that will definitely fit the figure.

We knit a cocoon cardigan according to the description

Knitting or crochet will be donethe intended product is not so important. If desired, you can combine the work of two tools. For example, knitting the cuffs and collar with knitting needles, and crocheting the main part. In any case, the technology implies the following actions:

1. We cast on the number of loops equal to the width of the product.
2. We knit an even fabric, without making increases and decreases.
3. When we reach the planned length, close the loops.
4. We outline the width of the cuff in the middle of the smaller side.
5. Take a needle and thread and sew the fabric along the lines shown in green on the diagram.
6. If you wish, you can complete the work on this. Or complement the cardigan with cuffs and a collar.
7. To do this, we prepare a hook and collect new loops in the necessary zones. If we continue to use knitting needles. Or immediately crochet cuffs of the desired length.
8. In the same way we make out the gate. But in this case, we are not moving in a circle, but back and forth.

Cardigan bottom up

To crochet or knit this version of a cocoon cardigan, you should perform slightly different manipulations:

1. We multiply the number of loops in one centimeter by the length of the product, and the number of rows in one centimeter by the width.
2. We collect the calculated loops.
3. And we knit the fabric of the desired length without increases and decreases.
4. Then we assemble it in the same way as described in the previous paragraph.
5. However, it is important to note that the reader can make a two-tone cardigan if desired. To do this, knit the product to half, and then goto a different thread color.

As you can see, the principle of operation is quite simple and quite accessible even for beginners. Although this does not mean at all that the finished product will be simple or uninteresting. Experienced needlewomen advise to “revive” it with a combination of unusual yarn and a simple pattern, or a monochrome knitting thread and a complex pattern. In any case, the work will be creative and very exciting. Therefore, we recommend that the reader use his imagination.