Scraps for Bartholomew: Cloud Sweater (Vest)

When I was knitting my last Cloud sweater with Lang Cloud #11, I started setting aside scraps specifically for Teddi. I wanted to make her another matching Cloud sweater, and I figured since I was making a small instead of a medium this time, I’d have enough.

After I finished my own sweater, I cast on for one half of the mini bear sweater body and knit a few rows before it was obvious I wouldn’t have nearly enough. I always underestimate yardage on her sweaters—that’s why she owns a lot of crop tops.

So I ordered the Jellycat Bartholomew bag charm I’d been wanting. Those scraps were too expensive to just go to waste.

Once Bartholomew arrived in the mail, it only took a couple tries to start and a couple hours to finish.

I wanted to give him sleeves, and I tried to make them work, but even at this size, it just wasn’t enough. The only scraps I had left were no more than 6 inches long—barely big enough to hold.

I knit it in the round on 4mm circular needles using magic loop and cast on 30 stitches using the long tail cast on. 

I started by knitting 2 rounds and then purling 1 to mimic the rolled stockinette and ribbed hem of the full-size Cloud sweater. After that, I worked 4 rounds in stockinette before shaping the underarms.

To create the armholes, I bound off 2 stitches, knit 13, bound off 2 again, and knit the remaining 13. 

From there, I worked the front and back flat separately. For each side, I:

• knit 6 rows

• knit 2 more rows, binding off 2 stitches at the beginning of each to shape the shoulders

• knit 3 more rows for the rolled funnel neckline

• bound off with Jeny’s Surprisingly Stretchy Bind Off

Once both sides were finished, I seamed the front and back together across the shoulders and up along both sides of the neckline.

Now he lives on my bag.

Clearly I just like playing dress up.