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Striped Baby Pants – Free Knitting Pattern

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January 19, 2019 By amanda 11 Comments

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Striped Baby Pants - Free Knitting Pattern

Valentine’s Day is coming up and I wanted something for my little guy to wear.  Last week I shared the Valentine Baby Dress that my son’s precious friend modeled and this week I wanted to share the matching pants (or leggings if you decide to make both!).  I designed both of these patterns using Lion Brand Yarn’s Vanna’s Choice.  I am so happy with how they both turned out!  I don’t do a lot of holiday designs, but sometimes I can’t help myself when it comes to baby things.  Even though we have completed our family and won’t have any more small babies around until we have grandkids (which will be a LOOOONG time from now given that our oldest is only 9!) I still love to make baby things and don’t plan on stopping anytime soon.  I’ll just have to find plenty of babies to gift them to. 🙂

My son would absolutely not cooperate with me when I tried getting pictures of him in these pants.  Here is the best I could do:

Striped Baby Pants - Free Knitting Pattern

Striped Baby Pants - Free Knitting Pattern

Not quite the pictures I had hoped for, but sometimes with babies/toddlers you get what you get if you know what I mean!  At least he wore them and they fit!!  He is in an 18 month top but still hanging on to the 12 month pants.  These were my first pair of pants I had ever designed and I’m really happy with how they turned out.  Hope you like them as much as I do!



Gotta share one more – I shared this one on the baby dress page but it is too funny.  He loves his buddy but he hated sitting in that chair!!

Valentine Baby Pants - Free Knitting Pattern

In this article...

  • Buy the ad-free pdf or favorite on Ravelry here
  • What You’ll Need
    • SPECIAL STITCHES
      • PATTERN NOTES
    • Check out the Valentine Baby Dress here!
  • PATTERN
    • Leg (make 2) Ribbing
    • Leg
    • Shape Crotch
    • Shape Top
    • Short Row Shaping
    • Finishing

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Striped Baby Pants

What You’ll Need

Yarn: Lion Brand Vanna’s Choice: #177 Sage (MC, 1 skein), #099 Linen (CC, 1 skein)

Needles: US size 7 (4.5mm) straight needles; US size 9 (5.5mm) straight needles

Notions: Tapestry needle, 1 sheet red felt, sewing needle, matching thread

Skill Level: Easy

Size: Finished Waist Size 17 (18, 20)” for baby size 6 (12, 18) months

Shown in size 12 months

Gauge: 18 sts and 24 rows = 4” [10 cm] in St st after wet blocking

SPECIAL STITCHES

Stripe Pattern
Rows 1-8: With CC.
Rows 9-16: With MC.
Rep Rows 1-16 for patt.

PATTERN NOTES

When changing from bottom rib to St st, begin with a knit row on the Right Leg and a purl row on the Left Leg, then work in St st.

Valentine Baby Set - Free Knitting Patterns

Check out the Valentine Baby Dress here!

PATTERN

Leg (make 2)
Ribbing

With MC and smaller needles, CO 28 (32, 36) sts.

Work in K1, P1 Rib for 10 rows.

Increase 2 sts evenly across. (30 (34, 38) sts)

Change to larger needles.

Leg

Proceed in Stripe Pattern and St st, increase 1 st each end every 5th row 10 times. (50 (54, 58) sts)

Cont in Stripe Pattern and St st until piece meas 9.5 (10.5, 12)” from beginning.

Shape Crotch

BO 3 (3, 4) sts at beg of next 2 rows. (44 (48, 50) sts)

Decrease 1 st each end of next row and every other row twice more. (38 (42, 44) sts)

Cont in Stripe Pattern and St st until piece meas 6 (6.5, 7)” from BO edge.

Shape Top

Change to smaller needles and MC, work in K1 P1 Rib for 12 (14, 16) rows.

Short Row Shaping

Rows 1-2: Work 31 sts, sl next st purlwise, bring yarn to front, return slipped st to left needle, bring yarn to back, turn and work rib to end.

Row 2: Work 21 sts, sl next st purlwise, bring yarn to front, return slipped st to left needle, bring yarn to back, turn and work rib to end.

Row 3: Work 11 sts, sl next st purlwise, bring yarn to front, return slipped st to left needle, bring yarn to back, turn and work rib to end.

Row 4: Work even across all sts in rib.

BO all sts in rib.

Finishing

Sew inseam and crotch seams.

Weave in ends.

Cut hearts from felt sheet to fit knee area and attach using sewing needle and matching thread.

Free Knitting Pattern - Striped Baby Pants

That’s it!  I hope you have enjoyed this free knitting pattern.  Please visit my library of free knitting patterns for more!

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Comments

  1. Jessie

    May 12, 2019 at 1:20 pm

    Love the patterns!!❤💚💜💙💛

    Reply
    • amanda

      May 13, 2019 at 4:39 am

      Thank you so much! 🙂

      Reply
  2. Naami

    May 6, 2020 at 1:21 pm

    Great pattern. I just don’t understand when the two legs are joined. Or is the whole thing knitted in two halfs and just sewn together at the end?

    Reply
    • amanda

      May 7, 2020 at 2:31 am

      This is knitted in two halfs and sewn together at the end. 🙂

      Reply
  3. Im452

    April 22, 2021 at 5:55 am

    I have a question about the short rows: are these supposed to be wrap and turns? Pattern doesn’t mention anything about turns so just a little lost on why these rows are there! Thanks.

    Reply
    • amanda

      April 22, 2021 at 4:41 pm

      Oh wow!! YES! You are supposed to turn after you slip the stitch back and then turn and work back to the other end. I’ll fix this in the instructions 🙂 It’s to shape the back waist so it’s higher than the front.

      Reply
      • Im452

        April 24, 2021 at 8:47 am

        Ah wonderful, thank you so much!

        Reply
  4. S

    March 1, 2022 at 11:06 am

    I’m not sure I understand. Both legs are knitted identical, not mirror image or reversed.

    Reply
    • amanda

      March 2, 2022 at 3:44 pm

      Yes, there is not a set front and back with this pattern until you add the waistband.

      Reply
  5. Julia

    June 6, 2022 at 12:09 am

    Hi!
    I’m just wondering if you could help me with the pattern notes instructions. What’s the difference in starting one leg on the purl side? Does this make the colour joining stand out more if the second colour is added from the wrong side? Thank you x

    Reply
    • amanda

      June 6, 2022 at 11:11 pm

      Hi! This is so you end up with a right and left leg as they are slightly different.

      Reply

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