Ziggidy Doo

Meet Ziggidy Doo; the A-line skirt for girls who’ve moved on from frills, or who simply never wanted them in the first place. Clean-lined and quietly cool, Ziggidy Doo is a classic A-line with a twist: a playful stitch pattern that adds texture and depth without a single ruffle in sight. It looks intricate, knits up quickly, and sits beautifully on every kind of girl.

Simple enough for an adventurous beginner. Satisfying enough for a seasoned knitter after a quick, rewarding make.

Construction:

This garment is knit from the top-down in the round in one piece. It begins with an encased waist band. Optional no-wrap lift short rows can be worked in the hip area. Increases are worked into the zig-zag stitch patten that travels the length of the skirt to create the A-line shaping.

Stitch pattern is both charted and written.

Sizing:

Ziggidy Doo’s sizing is divided into three sizes; Small, Medium and Large. Each of these sizes is further divided to enable a customised waist measurement for optimum fit.

To fit actual waist measurement of: 

SMALL: 19/48.5 – 9 months (20/51 – 12 months, 20½/52 – 18 months) 

MEDIUM: 21/53.5 – 2 years, 21½/54.5 – 4 years, 22½/57 – 6 years

LARGE: {23½/59.5 – 8 years, 24½/62 – 8 years, 25/63.5 – 10 years, 28/71 –10 years} 

Inches/cms.

Wearing ease is incorporated into this pattern. Garment is designed to be slim fitting.

Garment is shown in the Medium size knit with a 21½ inch/54.5cm waist and 6 years length.

Skirt can be knit with optional short row shaping.

Skill Level:

Intermediate

Techniques used:

knit and purl 

Knitting two stitches together from two pieces of knitting 

Cabling 

Cabling without a cable needle (optional) 

No-wrap lift short rows (optional) 

Working in the round 

Using a chart (optional) 

Increasing

Yarn Requirements:

* Fleece Artist Blue Face Leicester DK(100% BFL wool; 246yd 225m/125g) – 2 (2, 2) [2, 2, 3] {3, 3, 3} skeins.

* OR DK/8ply weight yarn of approximately: 

270/250 (310/285, 350/320) [400/365, 450/415, 500/460] {560/515, 620/570, 680/625} yards/metres.

Sample garment shown in Monster Knits Sock Monkey (discontinued).