Apple Blossom Blouse | PDF low back lace summer knitting pattern

Apple Blossom Blouse

The Apple Blossom Blouse is a slightly oversized, lightweight summer blouse featuring a dramatic, stunning low (and reversible) back. Delicate picot edges finish the neckline, back seam and the long sleeves. It is a super quick knit and due to it’s lightweight yarn a perfect project for summer! The pattern comes in English and German.

The blouse is worked top down using charts. Front panels are knitted separately and then joined to form the front of the body, which is worked flat to the underarm. Stitches are then picked up for the back panels. After the back is finished with a picot edge and joined, the body is joined in the round and worked to the hem.

Sleeves are picked up around the armholes and shaped with rapid decreases for a relaxed fit at the underarm and a slimmer upper sleeve.

Please measure your gauge before and after blocking, since the fabric will probably stretch. You’ll want to keep this growth in mind whilst deciding on your back depth.

SIZES 1 (2, 3, 4) 5, 6, 7 {8, 9, 10} 11, 12

Finished bust circumference: 94 (100, 106, 115) 125, 135, 145 {155, 165, 175} 185, 195 cm 37 (39.25, 41.75, 45.25) 49.25, 53.25,57 {61, 65, 69} 72.75, 76.75 inches

Sweater is designed with a positive ease of 20cm / 7 ⅞“ at the bust. Side seam: approx. 35cm / 13 ¾”. Back length: approx. 54cm / 21 ¼“. Lengths are all easily adjustable to your needs.

YARN Sample is knitted with Mohair by Canard 1-ply, in Tea Green (1123), 350m / 50g, yarn held double. Other lace-weight yarn will do perfectly as well. 
Yarn consumption includes a 10x10cm / 4x4” swatch 
Size 1 (2, 3, 4) 5, 6, 7 {8, 9, 10} 11, 12

1554 (1564, 1650, 1826) 1868, 1932, 2044 {2108, 2128, 2282} 2304, 2324 meters

1727 (1738, 1834, 2029) 2076, 2147, 2272 {2343, 2365, 2536} 2560, 2583 yards When using the same yarn, this equals 5 (5, 5, 6) 6, 6, 6 {7, 7, 7} 7, 7 skeins

GAUGE Knitted with bigger needles (4,5mm / US 7 in sample) and yarn held double Measured over pattern after blocking: 
16 stitches and 24 rows over 10cm / 4”

NEEDLES

Blouse is knitted with needle size 4,5mm / US7 for the body and size 3mm / US2.5 for the picot edge, or with the needle size you need to reach gauge.

This is a digital PDF knitting pattern in English and German. This is NOT a finished product.