Tilly and the Buttons - Pearl Cardigan Sewing Pattern

Elevate your knitwear with Pearl, a V neck wrap cardigan that's bang on trend. Pearl is cropped at the waist and fastens at the side with an adjustable tie. It has dropped shoulders, a relaxed fit across the bust and a deep hem band.

Choose between classic long straight sleeves, short sleeves or statement balloon sleeves with cosy cuffs. Wear Pearl with jeans, a denim skirt or over your favourite dress - it's the perfect cardigan to tie your look together.

Pearl includes Tilly and the Buttons' award-winning beginner-friendly instructions, with colour photos showing you each step – making it easy for you to create gorgeous clothes you can be proud to say you made yourself.

SKILL LEVEL - Confident beginner

SIZE RANGE - UK 6-34 / US 2-30 / EUR 34-62 / AUS 6-34

FABRIC SUGGESTIONS - Medium-weight drapey knit fabrics with at least 20% stretch, such as Hacci knit, sweater knit, jacquard knit, stretch velvet, ponte, interlock, lighter weight French terry.

FABRIC & SUPPLIES - You can find this with the images (Psst! You can zoom in). 

 SUPPLIES

• Fabric
• Matching thread
• 1.5m (1 3/4yd) iron-on seam tape or 5mm (1/4in) wide strips of iron-on interfacing
• Sewing machine OR overlocker (serger), plus basic tools, incl ballpoint machine needle (a walking foot can be helpful if you’re using a regular sewing machine.

MODEL GARMENT SIZES - Alice May (pink patterned and short sleeve cardigans)  wears size 4 (UK 12). Abi (dark green cardigan) wears size 11 (UK 26), graded to a size 13 (UK 30) at the waist with 2.5cm (1in) added at the bust. Georgie (multi-coloured balloon sleeve) wears a size 3 (UK 10).