Here is an easy knitting pattern for a warm woollen pullover or vest.This is an easy knitting pattern for an all-in-one woollen pullover or vest based on knitted squares. If you want a change from making squares for a blanket, but still want an involvement in knitting for charity, particularly for children living with aids, then this is a great alternative. Did you know that over 500 children a day are orphaned in South Africa and Zimbabwe from the combined affects of poverty and HIV AIDS. The temperature in many parts of Southern Africa falls below freezing in winter, especially at night. So please follow this simple knitting pattern to knit a pullover or vest and send it to South Africa. Click here for sending instructions. Your knitting will help keep a newly-orphaned child, who may also be living with aids, warm. The pullover can be made using scraps of wool and then varied in size by using different knitting needles sizes , or knitting with two strands of yarn - super warm! 
Simple knitting pattern for children's pulloverYou will need 8 ply yarn (Aus/NZ) Double Knit (UK) Worsted Aran (USA), 4.5mm needles and 100 gm (3.5oz) ball of yarn or scraps equivalent to that.Front 1. Cast on 44 stitches 2. Work 18 rows in Knit 2, Purl 2 (ribbing) 3. Next 30 rows Knit (stocking stitch) Front of sleeve 4. Cast on 12 stitches at beginning of next row (56 stitches) 5. Knit 2 Purl 2 to end of row 6. Cast on 12 stitches at beginning of next row (68 stitches) 7. Work 22 rows in Knit two Purl 2 (ribbing) Neck opening 8. Next row knit 2, purl 2 (rib) 21 stitches, cast off 26 stitches, rib 21 stitches 9. Next row knit 2, purl 2 (rib) 21 stitches, cast on 26 stitches and then rib 21 stitches Back of sleeve 10. Work 22 rows in Knit 2, Purl 2 (ribbing) 11. Cast off 12 stitches at beginning of next 2 rows Back 12. Knit next 30 rows (stocking stitch) 13. Work 18 rows Knit two, Purl 2 (ribbing) Cast off To finish 14. Turn completed article over, fold in half wrong side to wrong side. 15. Using a darning needle and a strand of the colour wool you have used, sew up the sides and the along the sleeves on both sides.
This is a very versatile and easy knitting pattern and great fun to knit as you can see from these beautiful examples knitted by Louise from littlelou1975.blogspot. Louise has knitted some of these for knit-a-square and some for Project Peru. Little Lerato is wearing Janette's lovely square pullover, and Ronda took this photograph in Johannesburg on 3 March 2009, so you can see how your colorful pullovers will look on a small child. If you subscribe to Square Circle ezine, we we will send you stories of how this knitting for charity project is helping to keep the children warm. If you are beginning knitting and want to practice on a very easy knitting pattern, then knit a few 8 x 8" (20 x 20cm) squares and send them to Africa to help us with this knitting project. Thank you.
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