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This make-a-long starts from the 10th October to the 10th December, and there will be prizes!
Please Note: the pattern isn’t included and is available to purchase here:
https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/silver-forest
Silver Forest is a lightweight circular yoke sweater with a relaxed, comfortable fit. This sweater is light as a feather and next to skin soft. With the light fabric fingering weight yarn creates, you can wear your Silver Forest often - indoors, layered in the winter, as an outer layer in the spring or even on chilly summer nights like we have here in Maine. Silver Forest is casual enough to throw on with a pair of jeans yet nice enough to wear to a special occasion. This design lends itself well to a variety of yarns: wooly fingering weights or handdyed yarns with a nice drape are a great match for this pattern.
Construction:
This seamless, circular yoke sweater is knit in the round and is a top down hybrid. Designed to have a relaxed fit with 2-5” of positive ease at bust. You can choose between 3 options for body shaping: Subtle hourglass shaping, straight body, or a-line, and there are 2 options for neckline styles: ribbed or rolled neckline. The knitting starts with a provisional cast on with waste yarn using a simple long tail cast on. No additional skills are needed for this method (called COWYAK) and the transition between the directions in knitting is completely invisible. The stranded yoke is worked and then the neckline is bound off. Next, the body and sleeves are worked top down from the provisional cast on edge. With this method of construction, the sweater has live stitches at the neckline and edges of the body and sleeve cuffs. This makes for easy customization of body and sleeve lengths and neckline width.
Finished Measurements:
Bust circumference: 34.75 (38.5, 42.5, 46.5, 50.5, 54.5)” / 86.5 (96.5, 106, 116.5, 126, 136.5) cm
Sizes listed are actual finished sweater measurements. Choose a size with recommended ease of 2-5”/ 5-12.5 cm larger than your actual bust measurement. Shown with 3” / 7.5 cm ease. Additional measurements in schematic on page 10.
Yarn
Botanical Yarn 4ply Superwash 75% Merino 25% Nylon - 425m/100g
34.75 (38.5, 42.5, 46.5, 50.5, 54.5)”
Or desired fingering weight wool yarn in the following amounts:
MC and CC3 : 4 (4, 5, 5, 6, 6 ) 1300 (1500, 1700, 1900, 2100, 2300) m + 92 (101, 110, 119, 129, 138) m
CC1: 1 Skein 74 (78, 83, 87, 92, 96) m
CC2: 1 Skein (undyed) 174 (193, 211, 229, 257, 284) m
Needles
Needle A: US 2 (2.75mm) DPNs, 16” / 40cm for neckline, 32” / 80 cm or longer circular needle for waistband and optional magic loop for cuffs.
Needle B: US 3 (3.25mm) DPNs (or long circular for magic loop), and 24” (60 cm) or longer circular for body. 40” (100 cm) long needles suggested for provisional yoke cast on.
Needle C (for colorwork): US 4 (3.5 mm) DPNs for sleeves and 32” (80 cm) or longer circular needle for stranded colorwork yoke, if necessary.
Gauge
Colorwork: 27 sts and 36 rnds = 4 inches / 10 cm in stockinette st, in the round, after blocking.
Body: 27 sts and 40 rnds = 4 inches / 10 cm in stockinette st, in the round, after blocking.
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