Ultimate Sweater Machine Longies

This pattern was originally written for use with the Ultimate Sweater Machine, but can be adapted for use with similar knitting machines.

Materials Needed:

• Cartridge size 3

• Wool or Other Worsted Yarn

• Tapestry needle

Important Notes:

• Gauge: 14 stitches = 4” wide and 24 rows = 4” high

• Sizes are NB(S,M,L) but are only approximates.

• Each side of the pants will be knit separately, from the top down, followed by the ribbing, and then joined together by seaming up the inside of the legs and then the middle of the front and back.

• Knit across = right to left.

• Purl across = left to right.

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Using Scrap Yarn:

Cast on 24 (26, 28, 30) stitches. Knit a few rows.

Using your actual yarn:

Row 1 knit across, increase one stitch

Row 2 purl across

Row 3 knit across

Row 4 purl across, increase one stitch

Row 5 knit across, increase one stitch

Row 6 purl across

Row 7 knit across

Row 8 purl across, increase one stitch

Row 9 knit across, increase one stitch

Row 10 purl across

Row 11 knit across

Row 12 purl across, increase one stitch

Row 13 knit across, increase one stitch

Row 14 purl across

Row 15 knit across

Row 16 purl across

You should now have 31 (33, 35, 37) total stitches on your needle.

Continue regular knitting for 24 (27, 30, 38) rows.

Wrap a small piece of yarn around the first and last stitch of that row. Use these markers as a guide for measuring the legs and sewing up the seams later.

Begin legs as follows:

Decrease at the beginning and end of the next two rows for the crotch shaping. You should have 27 (29, 31, 33) stitches on your machine.

Continue knitting for 38 (41, 44, 47) rows.

Cast off with the stretchy cast off.

Do 8 rows of ribbing, follow instructions from this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuUGkwMVXfI

Next make the other side of the longies the same as the first side

When you're finished, seam the two sides together, using the mattress stitch or other seaming technique. (You may want to block your two sides prior to the seaming.)

Make a drawstring, thread it through the ribbing, and you're done.