Baby Bear Rib Warmer Re-visited
Copyright By Meg Swansen - from the original design by EZ with ideas from Theresa Inverso, Sindna Farley, & Vicki Chouinard
Tutorial by Gail Bable , copyright 2003
Materials: approx. 2 oz ww yarn, size 7 or 8 needles
Gauge: whatever , fits stuffed animal whatever your gauge gives you. Worsted gave me a vest for a large bear and baby weight
fit a small one.
Note: 1 ridge = 2 rows
Invisibly cast on 5 sts
Row 1-10: K
Row 11: Knit five , cast on 10 stitches
12-51: K, (20 ridges)
Turn corner (the short end of your piece is where you will be leaving orphans)
Row 52: K 14, turn (leaving 1 orphan)
Row 53: Knit
Row 54: Knit 13, turn (leaving 2)
Row 55: K
Row 56: K 12, turn (3)
Row 57: K
Row 58: K 11, turn (4)
Row 59: K
Row 60: K 10, turn (5)
Row 61: K
Row 62: K 9, turn (6)
Row 63: K
Row 64: K 8, turn (7)
Row 65: K
Row 66: K 7, turn (8)
Row 67: K
Row 68: K6, turn (9)
Row 69: K
Row 70: K 5, turn (10)
Row 71: K
72: Now bring orphans back into the fold! Knit 6, turn
73. K
74. Knit 7, turn
75. Knit
76. K 8, turn
77. K
78. K 9 , turn
79. K
80. K 10 turn
81. K
82. K 11 , turn
83. K
84. K 12, turn
85. K
86. Knit 13, turn
87. Knit
88. K 14, turn
89. Knit
90. Knit 15, turn
91. K
End of Day One.
Day Two
Row 92-101: Knit 5 ridges , side panels
Row 102: 2nd corner same as previous corner only go down to 3 sts. Instead of 5.
Begine building back up, picking up until you have five stitches on the needles. STOP
Place Stitches on holder and break off.
Day Three:
Work same as day one but instead of casting on five stitches, pick up the five stitches that were your invisible cast on
and begin from there.
Day Four: Same as Day Two
Day Five:
Join the two pieces, short sides at bottom together (long ends facing out).
Knit across the five stitches you have already picked up , Pick up one more
stitch (6 stitches,) turn and knit back across those six , and the five you
have already picked up from your second piece plus pick up one more stitch.
Repeat going across, picking up one more stitch at the end of each row until
all the Orphan stitches have been picked up and you have 30 stitches on the
needles. You have built your back up now. Knit on these 30 stitches for 17
Rows.
Day Six
Shape shoulders by knitting 3 sts less each row.
Row 1: Knit across row until there are three stitches left, wrap and turn
next stitch, leaving three stitches not knit (1 wrapped and two not worked)
Row 2: repeat row 1
Row 3: Repeat row 1 only leave 6 stitches not worked.
Row 4: Repeat row 3
Row 5: Repeat row 1 only leave 9 stitches not worked
Row 6: Repeat row 5.
To finish weave stitches to not worked shoulder stitches .
Sew collar to back neck by picking up stitches across neck back and weaving.
(you will have removed your yarn holding invisible cast on and placed those
stitches on a needle.)
You can also work this by:
Row 1: bind off first three stitches , knit to end.
Repeat Row 1 until 12 stitches remain. Sew up should seams and sew collar on
at neck back.
To finish the BBRW you can crochet around the neck edge and armholes or work
I-cord around. I also attach either and I-cord or crochet chain ties to the
front.
