• A young boy with curly brown hair, seen from a 3/4 angle, buttons up hand knit jacket, knit in cream with brown, green, blue, and orange plackets around the button band.
  • A young boy smiles at the camera and wears a Letters to Camp sweater, buttoned up and with the hood up. It's knit with cream yarn in a moss stitch, with orange, green, blue, and brown plackets around the button band. A park can be seen in the background.
  • A young boy, seen close up, focuses on buttoning up his cream knit sweater. The sweater features orange, green, blue, and brown plackets around the cream button band.
  • Seen close up from a 3/4 angle, a young boy buttons up hand knit jacket, knit in cream with brown, green, blue, and orange plackets around the button band.
  • A young boy stands in a park, wearing black overalls and a white shirt under a hand knit sweater. The sweater is unbuttoned and knit with cream yarn, featuring orange, green, brown, and blue plackets around the button band.
  • A light blue version of the Letters to Camp sweater hangs on a branch. It has four buttons, and orange, purple, yellow, and green plackets neck to the button band.
  • Seen from behind, a moss stitch kid's sweater hangs on a branch. It's made with blue yarn and orange, yellow, purple, and green plackets around the button band and up the hood.
  • Seen close up, a light blue moss stitch kid's sweater lays on a table. It has four blue buttons and yellow, orange, purple, and green plackets around the button band.
  • Seen close up, two kid's hold a light blue, moss stitch sweater, featuring plackets around the button band.
  • Seen close up and from behind, a moss stitch kid's sweater hangs from the bottom of a hanging plant. It's made with blue yarn and orange, yellow, purple, and green plackets around the button band and up the hood.
  • Seen from behind, a moss stitch kid's sweater hangs from the bottom of a hanging plant. It's made with blue yarn and orange, yellow, purple, and green plackets around the button band and up the hood.
  • The camera focuses close up on the four plackets that surround the button band on the Letters to Camp sweater. The plackets are knit with yellow, orange, purple, and green yarn, and the sweater itself knit from blue. Three blue buttons can be seen.
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Letters to Camp

Letters to Camp

$7.50 USD
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Letters to Camp - a cozy kid's jacket knitting pattern

The Letters to Camp jacket features welted plackets on either side of a ribbed button band. The allover seersucker stitch creates visual interest and warmth. Stitches are picked up to create a hood that is closed neatly with a three-needle-bind-off. The fronts, back, and set-in sleeves are knit flat and seamed together.

Construction

Letters to Camp is knit flat and seamed together. Stitches are picked up for the hood and a three-needle-bind-off is used to close the hood. Stitches are picked up for the welt border and the ribbed button band. Instructions are given for placing the buttons on either the left or the right side of the garment. 

Sizes

18 mos (2 yrs, 3 yrs, 4 yrs, 6 yrs) (8 yrs, 10 yrs, 12 yrs, 14 yrs)

Finished chest measurement: 21 (23.25, 24, 26, 26.75) (28.25, 31, 33.75, 35.5) inches / 52 (59, 60.5, 65, 67) (71.5, 77.5, 84, 89.5) cm

Finished upper sleeve circumference: 8 (8, 8.25, 8.5, 9.25) (9.5, 10.5, 10.75, 11.5) inches / 19.5 (19.5, 20, 21, 22.5) (23.5, 26, 26.5, 28) cm

Download the full schematic here.

Your best fit

Choose the size closest to the actual chest measurement: 19 (21, 22, 23, 24) (26, 28,
30, 32) inches / 47.5 (52.5, 55, 57.5, 60) (65, 70, 75,80) cm

Letters to Camp is designed to fit with approximately 2-3.75 inches / 5-9.5 cm of positive ease at the chest, and 2-2.75 inches / 5-7 cm of positive ease at the upper arms.

Yarn

Sample 1 shown in Cascade Heritage Sock

75% Superwash Merino Wool / 25% Nylon; 437 yd / 400 m per skein. This is a light fingering yarn.

Main Color (MC) (shown in Snow): 1080 (1320, 1490, 1675, 1910) (2190, 2610, 2870, 3140) yd / 990 (1205, 1365, 1535, 1745) (2005, 2385, 2625, 2870) m, 3 (3, 4, 4, 4) (5, 6, 7, 7) skeins
Contrasting Colors 1, 2, 3, 4 (CC) (shown in Dusky Coral, Sage, Dusty Turquoise, and
Bronze): 150 (60, 60, 65, 70) (80, 85, 85, 90) yd / 45 (55, 55, 60, 65) (70, 75, 80, 80) m; 1 skein each

Gauge

25 sts and 37 rows over 4 inches / 10 cm in Seersucker Stitch with size C needles and MC held double.

Needles

Size A: US 1 / 2.25 mm
Size B: US 2 / 2.75 mm
Size C: US 3/ 3.25 mm

Notions

  • Stitch markers
  • Tapestry needle
  • Waste yarn
  • 4 (5, 5, 5, 6) (7, 7, 7, 8) buttons (5/8 inch / 15 mm)

Techniques

  • Working directional increases
  • Working a sloped bind-off
    Working a tubular cast-on
  • Slipping stitches
  • Working a 3-needle bind-off
  • Working a buttonhole
  • Picking up and knitting

Credits

Tech Edit: Heather Storta
Photography: Anna-Lisa Miller

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