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Crossover Shoulderette

New! Download in Adobe PDF Format! Click Here or           Sizes: Small, Medium, Large, Finished size: 12" X 45"(47",50")around Gauge: 4 sts and 5 rows = 1” Keyplate 3dot, Bulky: Tension 6. Materials: baby, sport, worsted weight yarn..  (2.5 to 3 ozs.) 250 -300 yds. Sample was knit using 2 balls Stacy Charles "Ritratto"  yarn.  A thin slighly fuzzy, slightly metallic yarn.  We recommend using a baby or sport weight yarn for a summery effect.  Of course you could use any yarn to get gauge for a thicker, or thinner shoulderette. .Note: move weighted hem as necessary throughout knitting.

1. With waste yarn, open cast on 55 sts.  Knit a few rows, then change to main yarn.  Row counter at zeros. 
2. Knit to row counter 95(100,120). 
3. Do not cut yarn.  Drop main yarn and knit a few rows with waste yarn, or put stitches on a garter bar.
4. Remove stitches from machine, turn so right side faces you and rehang stitches on machine below waste yarn.  Remove waste yarn.
5. Set row counter to zeros.  Move carriage to side of knitting yarn.  Knit to row counter 95(100,120). *
6. Repeat steps 3 and 4.
7. Push these stitches back behind the latches.
8. Pick up the beginning of the piece with the waste yarn attached.  Holding the piece out straight, give it a turn so that it twists once.  The wrong side of the beginning knitting should now be facing you.
9.  Hang these stitches above the waste yarn on the same needles as before.
10. Manually knit back stitches onto front stithces.  Bind off loosely so piece does not gather.
11. Lay piece flat and twist shulderette in front where the yarn changed from knit side to wrong side.   Seam is in back.