Considered the most expensive clothing in the world. Sometimes the price for such an outfit made of natural silk, encrusted with precious stones, embroidered with pearls and gold threads, can reach the cost of a luxury car. In the modern interpretation of designers, the kimono has a lot of variations. This can be any clothing: a dress, a robe, a blouse and even a coat. But, as they say, even high fashion can be accessible to everyone, especially if you know how to knit or crochet. You can create interesting and unusual variations of kimono with your own hands using various techniques knitting. The material will be cozy and all-season knitwear.

Features of the Japanese style

Before you start knitting a kimono, you need to know about some distinctive features such clothes:

• Sleeve. Usually sleeves in style Japanese kimono one-piece and wide.
• No buttons. The traditional kimono is wrapped and secured with a wide belt.
• Fabrics. Preference is given to soft, flowing fabrics. If the kimono is made using the knitting technique, high-quality knitwear is used

The kimono can have any sleeve length. If the model fits with short sleeve, then the elongated line of the shoulders forms a slight overlap.

A knitted kimono model can either fully emphasize the style or incorporate only characteristic details. It all depends on the characteristics of the figure, skills and wishes of the needlewoman.

Sleeve

When starting to knit a sweater, blouse, cardigan or dress, you should determine the silhouette in advance. Even a casual sweater with kimono sleeves takes on a more feminine and soft shape.

By the way, the kimono sleeve is one of the simplest in terms of execution technique. To breed such a model (without lambing), you should know the principle:

1. The starting point of the armhole is determined.
2. In several stages, groups of 5-6 loops are cast on with knitting needles.
3. The number of stitches is directly proportional to the future length of the sleeve.
4. It should be knitted on all loops until the height is equal to the width of the sleeve.
5. Decreases of loops are performed according to the same principle as additions, only in the reverse order.

Usually the neck of a kimono has V-neck. It is knitted with increments of stitches, rounded off so that the armhole line smoothly transitions to the side seam.

Cardigan

Cardigan today is a must-have in the wardrobe practical fashionista. If you apply the principle of skillful combinatoriality of things, with the help of a cardigan you can create original fashionable images. A light and airy kimono that can be knitted, ideal for the warm spring-summer season.

The repeat pattern of the openwork kimono cardigan is quite simple and consists of only 4 rows. Each piece is absolutely rectangular in shape. You can use any thread for knitting: knitwear, acrylic, viscose, bamboo.

This technique openwork knitting is performed according to the 2+1 multiplicity principle, the technology is as follows:

• First row (front) - first 2 knit stitches, yarn over, then two loops together with the knit stitch. This is repeated until the end of the row and ends with one knit stitch.
• The second row is knitted with purl stitches.
• Third row - first 1 knit stitch, then pull through, yarn over. This continues until the end of the row and ends with two knit stitches.
• Knit the fourth row with purl stitches.

Popular “Stars” pattern for knitting

Knitting technique for a pattern in the Aran style

According to this openwork principle, all the individual parts of the cardigan are knitted, always rectangular in shape. At the end of the work, the parts are sewn together.

Blouse

For a hot summer, a kimono blouse is ideal, which you can easily knit with your own hands. The most pleasant material for the body is knitwear. These pieces are incredibly cozy, and the kimono style adds sophistication and femininity to a simple blouse. The knitting technique is quite understandable for needlewomen, the nuances are as follows:

• All details of the blouse are knitted with knotted edges.
• Combination used garter stitch(front and back row with front loops) and openwork pattern.
• Knit wavy openwork according to the pattern.

Advice:

To make the model’s sleeves as realistic as possible, the back should be knitted with half sleeves so that there is a visual bevel.

A knitted kimono, be it a cardigan, sweater, summer blouse or dress, is always distinguished not only by its originality and exclusivity. It is believed that when a needlewoman knits, she puts a piece of her soul into the product. The result is an interesting symbiosis oriental style, sincerity and sincerity.

We knit a kimono cardigan from the first to the last stitch

A very simple to make, but stylish and modern jumper from designer Lorna Miser can be knitted even by a novice craftswoman.

Design by Lorna Miser

(translation from English made for the website www.site)

Size Small, Medium, Large, 1X, 2X, 3X

Measurements finished product

Chest circumference 112 (122, 132, 142, 150, 160) cm

Length 76 (78.5, 81.5, 84, 84, 84) cm

Materials

Yarn Red Heart Fashion Soft (100% acrylic) 350 m / 140 g - 3 (3, 4, 4, 5, 5) skeins (color 9440 Gray in photo)

Knitting needles 5 mm

Knitting density

17 stitches and 24 rows – 10 x 10 cm in stockinette stitch using 5 mm needles

Note: the jumper consists of two identical parts for the front and back, which are knitted from the bottom up. At the level of the armpits, new loops are cast on on both sides for knitting sleeves.

Patterns used

Striped pattern

Row 1 (RS): Knit.

Rows 2 and 3: Purl.

Row 4: Knit.

Repeat Rows 1-4.

Description

Cast on 94 (102, 110, 118, 126, 134) stitches. Knit starting with 2 knits 7.5 cm from the beginning. Next, work in stockinette stitch (knit on RS, purl on WS) to a height of approximately 51 (52, 53.5, 54.5, 53.5, 53.5) cm from the beginning (or the required length to the armpits). Finish by knitting a row on the WS.

Sleeve loop set

Row 1 (RS): Cast on 34 stitches, knit to end of row - 128 (136, 144, 152, 160, 168) stitches.

Row 2: Cast on 34 sts, purl to end of row - 162 (170, 178, 186, 194, 202) sts.

Work in a striped pattern 25.5 (26.5, 28, 29, 30.5, 30.5) cm from the cast-on and bind off the stitches.

Tie the same as the back

Leaving the bottom part free, sew the side seams. Sew shoulder/top sleeve seams, leaving 18 (18, 18, 20.5, 20.5, 20.5) cm unsewn in center for neckline. Sew the bottom seams of the sleeves. Fasten off the loose ends of the yarn.

Fashion model pink women's sweater kimono made of mohair knitted with an elastic band with a free description.

You will need: 550 (600) grams of pink yarn Linie 16 Starwool Light, consisting of 100% mohair, thread length 160 meters in 50 grams, knitting needles No. 3 and 3.5.

Kimono Sweater Size: 38-40 (42-44).

Elastic band (knitting needles No. 3): knit 2 knits, 2 purl alternately.

Basic pattern (knitting needles No. 3.5): knit alternately 3 rows in stockinette stitch, 3 rows in purl stitch. That is, 1st, 3rd, 4th and 6th row - facial loops, 2nd and 5th row - purl loops. Repeat these 6 rows.

Knitting density of a kimono sweater: 24 loops and 44 rows corresponds to 10 by 10 loops.

Description of knitting a kimono sweater

Front

Cast on 122 (130) loops and knit a 16 cm elastic band.

For side bevels and sleeve bevels, after 12 cm, add 1 loop on both sides 1 time = 134 (143) loops.

Next, add 1 loop in every 6th row 4 times, 1 loop in every 4th row, 1 loop in every 2nd row 5 times, 2 times 7 times, 4 times 2 times (5), 6 times 8 times (6 times 7) loops = 302 (303) loops.

For the neckline, after 35 cm of the main pattern, close the central 16 (17) loops and continue to knit both sides separately.

To round, decrease in every 2nd row 1 time 4, 2 times 3, 4 times 2 and 5 times 1 loop = 120 loops.

After 7 cm from the neckline or 42 cm from the main pattern, the shoulders are ready.

Knit the 2nd rounding of the neckline symmetrically, connect both parts with newly cast on 62 (63) loops = 302 (303) loops.

backrest finish symmetrically.

After 12 (13) cm from the shoulders on both sides, decrease 8 times 6 (6 times 7) loops, 2 times 4 (5), 7 times 2, 5 times 1 loop, in every 4th row 5 times 1 loop, in every 6th row 5 times 1 loop = 132 (141) loops.

After 42 loops from the shoulders for the bar at the bottom, knit together 10 times (11 times) every 11th and

12th loop, then knit the bar with needles No. 3.

Assembly

For the cuffs, pick up 66 (74) stitches and knit a 12 cm elastic band, then bind off the stitches.

For the collar, pick up 140 stitches from the neck (64 stitches at the back, 76 stitches at the front) and knit with an elastic band.

After 12 cm, close the loops. Close side seams and sleeve seams.

Pullover-kimono, knitted in a single fabric, from Italian designers.

Size: 44

You will need: 350 g of blue Mondial Dolce Mohair yarn (60% royal mohair, 40% acrylic, 150 m/50 g), straight needles No. 5 and No. 6.

Knitting technique.
Elastic band 1x1: alternately knit 1, purl 1.
Elastic band 3x3: alternately knit 3, purl 3.

Double elastic: cast on half of the required stitches with a contrasting thread;
1st row: using a working thread, knit *1 knit, 1 yarn over*, repeat from * to *;
2nd row: *knit yarn over, remove 1 stitch as purl. without knitting, thread before work*, repeat from * to *;
3rd and last row: *knit 1, remove 1 st as purl, thread before work*, repeat from * to *; Unravel the contrasting thread in the finished part.

Basic pattern (even number of loops):
1st row: purl all;
2nd row: *k1, p1*, repeat from * to *;
3rd row: repeat rapport from the 1st row.

Braid to the left (width 9 points):
Rows 1, 3 and 5: k6, p1, k1, p1;

7th row: cross 6 sts to the left (leave 3 sts on the auxiliary needle before work, knit 3 and knit loops from the auxiliary knitting needle), purl 1, knit 1, purl 1;

Double braid (width 18 p.):
Rows 1, 3 and 5: p1, k1, p1, k12, p1, k1, p1;
2nd and all even rows: knit according to the pattern;
7th row: P1, K1, P1, 6 sts, cross to the right (leave 3 sts on the auxiliary knitting needle while working, k3 and knit stitches from the auxiliary knitting needle), 6 sts. cross to the left, purl 1, knit 1, purl 1;
9th row: repeat rapport from the 3rd row.

Knitting density, main pattern: 16 p. and 20 r. = 10 x 10 cm.

DESCRIPTION OF THE WORK

Back (knitted in one piece, starting from the left sleeve). On knitting needles No. 5, cast on 37 sts and knit 4 r. double elastic band and 10 rub. rubber band 3x3. Switch to needles No. 6 and knit as follows: k3, p1, k1, p1, 31 sts with the main pattern, while adding on the right every 4th row. 12 x 1 p., on the left in every 6th row. 13 x 1 p. In the 16th r. from the elastic, perform the first crossing of the braid to the left on the first 6 faces., next. for 1 purl; in 47th r. from the elastic band, perform the first crossing to the right onto the trail. behind them are 6 stitches to form a double braid (see diagram). After 55 r. dial again at the beginning of the river. 1 x 40 sts and knit as follows: 3 sts with double rib, 22 sts with 1x1 rib, p1, k1, p1, k12. (later crossing them for a double braid), p1, k1, p1, k12. (lastly crossing them for a double braid), purl 1, knit 1, purl 1, and then until the end of the r. main pattern. Starting from 121st r. decrease on the left every 6th row. 13 x 1 st. After 67 cm from the elastic band, close the first 40 sts and then decrease on the right in every 4th row. 12 x 1 p. After 94 cm from the elastic band, switch to knitting needles No. 5, knit 10 r. elastic band 3x3 and 4 p. with a double elastic band and close all the loops with a knitted seam.

Before. Knit like a back, starting from the right sleeve, but starting from the 77th r. for the neckline, decrease to the left every 2nd r. 6 x 1 p., and starting from the 111th p. add to the left every 2nd row. 6 x 1 p.

Assembly. Connect the front and back pieces by sewing the top and bottom seams of the sleeves and side seams. For the collar, use knitting needles No. 5 to cast on 39 sts and knit 3 sts with a double rib and 36 sts with a 1x1 rib. After 44 cm, close all loops. Sew the closed loops to the loops of the cast-on row, sewing the collar into a ring, and sew the collar to the neck so that the double elastic loops are on the outside.

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