About Introducing this charming Tie Up Frill Top knitting pattern, perfect for your spring and summer knits collection. This delightful design embodies the essence of warm-weather fashion, offering a stylish and breezy knitted top that's ideal for sunny days and cool evenings. The pattern features a playful frill detail along the hem and sleeves, adding a touch of femininity to your wardrobe. This is the perfect top to show off that cute little bra, or go braless and show off a little side boob. Skill Level Intermediate Techniques This pattern uses techniques such as: knit, purl, i-cord, knitted cast on, cable cast on, contiguous shoulder, adding elastic, picking up stitches. Gauge 20 sts and 28 rows = 4 inches / 10 cm in stockinette stitch on 4 mm [US 6] needles, blocked. Materials Suggested Needle 4 mm [US 6] circular needles 16, 32/40 inches / 40, 80/100 cm or size to obtain gauge. (metal needles here) Suggested Yarn Samples made in size XS. Note: though the sample has yarns held together, I found the Qing Fibre Veranita Yarn to be quiet thin, so you could get away with working with just a fingering merino yarn. Melbourne City Dyeworks (100% Merino, 400 metres/ 437 yds, 100g). If you decide to use this yarn, 2 (2) 3 (3) 3 (3) 4 (4) skeins are required, held together with Qing Fibre Veranita (79% Cashmere, 21% Silk, 300m/325 yds, 25g). If you decide to use this yarn, 3 (3) 4 (4) 4 (5) 5 (5) skeins are required. Yarn AlternativesWalnut Tree Pure Merino Yarn held with Drops KidsilkDrops Cotton MerinoCascade Yarns Heritage WaveCascade Heritage SolidsWe Are Knitters - The Baby Alpaca in beigeWandering Flock Merino Fingering held together with Merino SilkBettaknit Lana held together with Petit Mohair Notions Yarn needle to weave in ends and work hem. Elastic thread (this is the one I used however there you can get similar here) Stitch markers Scrap yarn, a stitch holder or knitting barber to place stitches on hold Scissors or cutters to cut yarn.
