Abbeyhill by Ysolda Teague

Abbeyhill

Knitting
September 2020
Sport (12 wpi) ?
22 stitches and 28 rows = 4 inches
in st st on larger needles
US 6 - 4.0 mm
US 4 - 3.5 mm
1075 - 2690 yards (983 - 2460 m)
Sizes 1 – 12: 34½ – 72½” / 86.5 – 181.5cm
low vision format available
English
This pattern is available for £8.00 GBP
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Pattern accessibility There are three versions of this pattern pdf available. Print (3 column), mobile, and low vision.

#sizeinclusive to a 72½“ / 181.5cm finished chest measurement.

Abbeyhill
Meet your new favourite sweater for autumn. Deeply textured cables and a swingy, slightly cropped shape that you’ll love layering over… just about everything, whether it’s pjs on long weekend mornings, or a maxi-dress or dramatic trousers when you finally decide to get dressed. Worked bottom up, seamlessly, with a fun cable pattern followed by plenty of soothing stockinette. The spoke yoke is borrowed from a beloved ready to wear sweater, and features feathered decreases for a subtle design detail, that’s also intuitive to knit and sits just-right around your shoulders.

Yarn
Sport weight yarn with good elasticity, wool or wool blends are ideal.
Shown in Tukuwool Sock (80% Finnish wool, 20% nylon, 175 yds / 160m, 50g).

Shown in Repo and Ruura.

1075[1180, 1325, 1425, 1575] (1790, 1920, 2055, 2215) [2390, 2555, 2690] yds / 985[1080, 1210, 1305, 1440] (1635, 1755, 1880, 2025) [2185, 2335, 2460]m

Skeins of Tukuwool Sock
7[7, 8, 9, 9] (11, 11, 12, 13) [14, 15, 16]

Gauge
22 sts & 28 rounds = 4” /10 cm in st st in the round on larger needles

Notions
Scrap yarn, stich markers

Use different colours or styles of markers, which will be referred to as markers A, B and C; all 3 should be different from the EOR marker.

1 EOR, 4 A markers, 2 C markers for all sizes.
B markers
Sizes 1–4: 8 markers
Sizes 5–9: 10 markers
Sizes 10–12: 14 markers

Sizing
1[2, 3, 4, 5] (6, 7, 8, 9) [10, 11, 12]
34½[38, 41½, 45, 48¼] (51¾, 55¼, 58¾, 62¼) [65¾, 69, 72½]” / 86.5[95, 103.5, 112.5, 121] (129.5, 138, 147, 155.5) [164, 172.5, 181.5]cm finished chest circumference.

Shown in size 3 with 7” / 17.5cm of positive ease.
Shown in size 5 with 5” / 12.5cm of positive ease.

Refer to schematic for full garment measurements.
Choose a size with between 4” / 10cm and 8” / 20cm of positive ease at the chest.

Needles
Needle A: US 6 / 4mm 24” / 60cm or longer circular needle.

Additionally, for sizes 3–15 a 32”/ 80cm, and for sizes 8–15 also a 40”/100cm circular in the same size. For these sizes, begin with the longest needle and switch to a shorter needle as necessary while working the yoke.

Needle B: US 6 / 4mm dpns or circular(s) for your preferred method of knitting small circumferences in the rnd.

Needle C: US 4 / 3.5mm dpns or circular(s) for your preferred method of knitting small circumferences in the rnd.

Skills for knitting this project

  • knitting, purling
  • working in the round
  • working flat
  • working small circumferences in the round
  • cabling (using a chart or written directions)
  • lifted increases
  • lifted increases
  • k2tog decreases
  • ssk decreases
  • short rows
  • three-needle bind-off

Optional techniques

Low vision details: 
* The main text is black 24pt sans serif
and all text is black on a white
background.

  • No italics are used
  • The directions for the cable section are in written form in LV pdf
  • The schematic measurements are written out, and the schematic is labeled with 24pt text
  • Images have alt text

Screen readers:
The low vision version is tagged to work with screen reading software and have been tested. Images have alt text. Abbreviations are used in the directions, they are defined but may be read aloud oddly. Numbers for multiple sizes are presented as lists of numbers within the text and may be difficult to keep track of when using a screen reader. If this is something you use we’d love your feedback on how we could improve the pattern formatting for screen readers.