Summer Lounge Shorts
Comfy and breezy, these lounge shorts are perfect for leisure-day essential featuring a wide waistband as well as the fun and playful high low hems with peekaboo side splits.
Comfy and breezy, these lounge shorts are perfect for leisure-day essential featuring a wide waistband as well as the fun and playful high low hems with peekaboo side splits.
Comfy and breezy, these lounge shorts are perfect for leisure-day essential featuring a wide waistband as well as the fun and playful high low hems with peekaboo side splits.
Level
Intermediate
Sizes
1 (2) 3 (4) 5 (6) 7 (8) 9 (10) 11 (12)
Gauge
10cm / 4” = 22 stitches x 31 rows (blocked) in Stockinette stitch worked flat and in the round on main needles.
Materials
Suggested Yarn:
Any sports/light DK weight yarn that contained cotton/linen with some acrylic blend that matched gauge. Sample was made with recycled yarn in 100% cotton. Other suggestions are Hempathy by Elsebeth Lavold (50g/153yds), Granville by Valley Yarns (50g/167yds)
Note: some yarns stretch over time, carefully swatch your gauge as the final product might grow after some wears.
Yardage required:
Yarn: 446 (459) 509 (524) 568 (558) 635 (635) 758 (739) 881 (885) m / 488 (502) 557 (573) 621 (610) 694 (694) 829 (808) 964 (968) yds
5cm/2” wide elastic band of the same or similar color to your yarn: 61 (64) 64 (72) 72 (82) 82 (92) 92 (102) 102 (112) cm / 24 (25¼) 25¼ (28¼) 28¼ (32¼) 32¼ (36¼) 36¼ (40¼) 40¼ (44)”
Suggested Needles
Main: 2 separate pairs of 3.75mm (100cm) / US5 (40”) circular needles, or the required needles to obtain gauge. (Note: second pair is optional)
Ribbing: 3.5mm (80cm) / US 4 (32”) circular needles or 1 size down from main needles.