The children's version of our popular Love Bomber knitting pattern, this cute bomber cardigan features a ribbed collar, drop shoulders, balloon cuffs and heart motif on the back. The chunky yarn and large needles means this project knits up in record time!

This is a printed pattern. Beautifully printed and folded into A DLE envelope brochure size, this will be posted to you.

The Mini Love Bomber comes in five size options and is knit from the bottom up as one piece before dividing off at the underarms. Once the shoulders are seamed, the sleeves are knit in the round from the top down.

Suitable for Advanced level knitters and above. Designed to fit children and teens from 1-15 years old.

Plus we now have an expansion pack for this pattern! Add a hood with optional ears, knit two new motifs on the back or learn how to write text or draw your child's artwork on the back. Take your Love Bomber to the next level.

Fit & Yarn Details

We recommend a chunky yarn that asks for 15mm needles on the label and meets the same gauge (stitch count within a 10 cm square) as below.

For our sample, we used: Abbey Road "born to be wool" from Spotlight Stores (100% merino wool; 50m / 55 yds / 100g per ball) in lavender using 4 (5, 6) (7, 8) balls.
A suitable substitute is "The Wool" by We Are Knitters.

Gauge: 6.5 stitches and 9 rows = 10 x 10 cm in stockinette stitch

Designed to be worn with 5-8 cm / 2-3.25" of ease depending on your personal preference. Sizes read as A (B, C) (D, E).

Finished chest measurements: cm = 61.5 (67.5, 74) (80, 86) / inches = 24.5 (27, 29.5) (32, 34.5).

Yarn Quantity: metres = 182 (229, 275) (330, 379) / yards = 200 (251, 302) (362, 415).

Needles: 15mm/US 19 and 10mm/US 15 circular needles both on a 80cm/31.5" cord. NOTE: The body is knit flat but the sleeves are worked in the round using the magic loop method and circular needles. If you prefer to use DPNs on the sleeves then you will also need DPNs in both needle sizes mentioned above.

Proper yarns we recommend: Bossy

If you like the colour of the sample photographed out best colour match would be Rubber soul or Patience for the grey and Sweet sweet manuka for the mustard sample.

We try our best to make our photos as accurate as possible but every screen displays colour slightly differently, so we cannot guarantee complete accuracy.  Hand-dyed yarns vary from one skein to the next so there will always be some variation between the photo and each individual skein. 

We highly recommend getting enough yarn for your project. To encourage this, you can exchange extra skeins if they are in their original condition, thus ensuring your project will have consistency. We dye in small, project sized batches, and don’t have dye lots.

Part of the hand dyed allure is each skein's individuality, even within a batch dyed at the same time. This gives final objects depth and nuance. 

With this in mind we recommend alternating skeins (every other row in flat knitting and every row in circular knitting) on larger projects creating a more cohesive blend.