But wearing it is the icing on the cake after lots of fun knitting,
with dramatic cable decreases and construction that works the top upward, and the bottom downward,
for the best of both worlds.
And you're going to love the charted colorwork, which is designed to eliminate any jogs whatsoever. It uses my own candy-cane stripe method, which, if I do say so myself, is pretty darned clever.
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Construction:
Top Up Bottom Down is worked by provisionally casting on stitches below the colorwork and working upward.
Deep cable decreases form raglan shaping.
The sweater bottom picks up from the original cast-on stitches to work downward. Optional set-in pockets use Elizabeth ZimmermanŐs afterthought pocket method.
Sweater sizes: 1 (2, 3, 4, 5) (6, 7, 8, 9).
Size of finished sweater, measured at full chest:
32 (35, 37, 40, 43) (48, 53, 59, 64)".
2-6" positive ease recommended. Shown in size 4 worn with 4" ease on a 36" dress form.
Needles: size 8 US (5 mm) circular needles for gauge and size 6 US (4.0 mm) for ribbing.
Notions: Cable needle, tapestry needle, 4 markers;
for provisional cast on: crochet hook a couple sizes larger than 5 mm, scrap yarn.
Gauge: 18 sts and 24 rows = 4" in stockinette stitch (single color) using larger needle.
Yarn: Sunday Knits 5 ply (worsted weight) in Nirvana (merino cashmere), Eden (merino), Brigadoon (merino tweed) or Angelic (merino angora); 125 m / 137 yd per 50 g / 1.75 oz skein:
Top Color: 4 (5, 5, 5, 6) (7, 7, 8, 9) skeins.
Bottom Color: 4 (4, 4, 4, 5) (5, 6, 7, 7) skeins.
Shown in Brigadoon Stone (top color) with Eden grey (bottom color).
Techniques used: Provisional cast-on, stranded knitting, reading charts, cable decreases, short rows, afterthought pockets.
Pattern includes: Written instructions, colorwork pattern in charted format, schematic, glossary with links to resources and tutorials.
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