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1980s

The Footloose Lattice

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Your size Choose the size nearest your actual bust measurement. The pattern adds the ease the original design had.

Yarn weight The original: Worsted (Aran), at about 24 sts and 20 rows to 4 in (10 cm) over the lattice. For the closest match to the photo, use a yarn that knits to this gauge. Super bulky yarn isn't offered (the cables turn stiff and lumpy), and nor is anything finer than DK: the bold lattice would shrink to a fine texture.

How you'd like to knit it

Flat, in pieces, as the originalIn the round to the underarms, with no side seams

In the round, the back and front are knitted together as one tube on a circular needle, then finished in rows. The rest of the pattern is the same.

Your gauge

This one needs a swatch. Please measure your gauge over the lattice cable pattern itself, not plain stockinette (the pattern shows you how to knit the swatch). Cables draw the knitting in a lot. The gauge on a yarn label is measured over plain stockinette, and this stitch pattern knits up differently, so the label won't give you the right size.

per 4 in per 10 cm

Stitches Rows

This pattern can be written for 18 to 30 stitches per 4 in (10 cm). How to measure your gauge

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