Take your knitting to the next level with this beautiful, intricate, and completely reversible brioche cardi. Newer to knitting or ever been curious about the brioche technique? This might just be the design to teach you all the elusive ins and outs of brioche! Worked from the top down seamlessly, the Grow With Me Cardi is a raglan-style, cropped cardigan that showcases the contrast between Spun Cloud and Wildflower yarns using brioche, creating a bold branching and rooting effect as increases are added. It features an open V-neck, short cap sleeves, and choice of a flared or straight body.  It's such a perfect piece to throw over your shoulders that you won't want to take it off!

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Pattern details:

Skill Level: Advanced Beginner to Intermediate Knitter

Needle Size: 

Size US 13 (9 mm) 32-40” / 80-100 cm circular needles or size needed to obtain gauge, plus additional needles of the same size for your preferred method of small circumference knitting

Sizes:  1 (2, 3, 4, 5)[6, 7, 8, 9]

To Fit Sizes:

35.75 (38.5, 42.5, 47.75, 50.5)[55.75, 58.5, 63.75, 66.5]”/ 89.5 (96.5, 106.5, 119.5, 126.5)[139.5, 146.5, 159.5, 166.5] cm finished chest circumference

Gauge:

6 sts and 9 brioche rows = 4” / 10 cm in two-color brioche worked flat, steam blocked (see Pattern Notes for Brioche Gauge Swatch details)

Materials:

Main Color (MC):  2 (2, 2, 2, 2)[3, 3, 3, 3] skeins Spun Cloud (100% wool; approx. 100 yds (92 m) / 200 g) 

Contrast Color (CC):  3 (3, 3, 4, 4)[4, 5, 5, 6] skeins Wildflower (100% cotton; approx. 60 yds (55 m) / 70 g) 

**Please note any modifications to size or length may require additional yarn.**

Size 1 sample is shown in Spun Cloud French Vanilla with Wildflower Lotus Petal and Size 2 sample is shown in Spun Cloud Blush with Wildflower Midnight Amber

Pattern Designer: Christine M Young