This stashbusting knitting pattern is a downloadable PDF that guides you to knit a seamless top-down sweater with raglan sleeves, featuring a unique striping pattern to be made from leftover yarns. The pattern includes 13 sizes for babies and children of all ages, and clear instructions for every step. The adult version of this pattern is available here.

The little balls of yarn left after a knitting project are little pieces of our knitting journeys which fill our hearts with dreams, our heads with mindfulness, and our bodies with warmth. These little leftover balls, too small to become their own projects, but too pretty to be thrown away, receive a new purpose with this pattern.

Tiny Lineage Sweater is the descendant of all your previous projects. It’s a raglan sweater worked in the round, seamlessly, from the top down. It can be made using only leftover yarns, or with mini skeins, or even with full skeins. It’s a fun sweater to knit and the result can be as colorful as you desire, as you can use any number of colors, from 2 to 1000! This version for babies and kids is intended for the youngest additions to your family tree.

Sizes
This pattern is meant for all your little ones, from newborns to 12 years old!

Sizes: Preemie/doll (Newborn, 3 m, 6 m // 12 m, 18 m, 24 m // 2T, 4T, 6 y // 8 y, 10 y, 12 y)

Bust circumference: 13 (14.5, 16, 17.5 // 18.25, 19, 20.25 // 21.75, 23.25, 25.5 // 27, 28.25, 30.5)“
33 (36.75, 40.75, 44.5 // 46.25, 48.25, 51.5 // 55.25, 59, 64.75 // 68.5, 71.75, 77.5) cm

Yarn
Sport or DK weight yarn in several colors
113 (145, 182, 222 // 253, 278, 314 // 325, 389, 462 // 564, 661, 757) yds
104 (133, 167, 203 // 232, 255, 288 // 298, 356, 423 // 516, 605, 693) m

Shown in Paintbox Yarns Simply DK
Colorways: Slate Green (126), Vanilla Cream (107), Pistachio Green (124), Blush Pink (153), Stormy Grey (104)

Difficulty
Advanced beginner – working in the round, basic stitches, basic increases and decreases. Detailed step by step instructions to create a seamless, top-down raglan sweater are provided.

Lifesaver techniques

• Don’t be afraid of all the ends you’ll need to weave in at the end of the project! Learn this technique to weave in ends while knittingand you’ll never be afraid of colorwork anymore!
• To make sure that the neck opening is stretchy enough to go over your baby’s head, use Jeny’s Stretchy Slipknot Cast-On (click to read the tutorial).