Shifting Sands Cardigan - CustomFit Recipe by Lime Scented

Shifting Sands Cardigan - CustomFit Recipe

Knitting
July 2014
yarn held together
Light Fingering
+ Light Fingering
= Light Fingering ?
40 stitches and 32 rows = 4 inches
in Shifting Sands texture pattern
US 2 - 2.75 mm
US 4 - 3.5 mm
440 - 880 yards (402 - 805 m)
Customized
English

Please note: This is a CustomFit Recipe ONLY, and requires the purchase of a CustomFit pattern, for $9.99 to get a complete set of instructions. Find out more about CustomFit at customfit.makewearlove.com.

This CustomFit recipe provides full instructions on how to use CustomFit to make a Shifting Sands Cardigan that will fit you perfectly from hem to neck and everywhere in between, including:

  • Construction options for CustomFit to get personalized instructions for your shape.
  • Instructions for the striking collar, including charts, detailed written instructions and photographs.
  • A discussion on yarn combination ideas for the body and collar.
  • Detailed instructions and photographs for seaming the collar to the body

Find out more about the CustomFit Recipe.
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Description
Shifting Sands is an elegant cardigan with a stunning collar. Long vertical lines in front and the high riding collar visually elongate your body and neck. The crisp, stylish folds emphasise your lovely face.

The body is knitted in stockinette, a soothing and easy knit. You need a simple stockinette cardigan pattern you love; for best results, generate your own CustomFit pattern, which will fit you perfectly.

The collar features a crisp lattice pattern which is easily memorized. Artfully introduced purl wedges split the patterned area into strips and persuade the fabric into those striking folds.

Best of all, you don’t even need to work the whole cardigan in the same yarn! Knit up the stockinette body quickly in thicker yarn, and showpiece a lovely fingering weight yarn for the collar!
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Skills Assumed

The Recipe assumes you already know how to:
• Knit and purl
• Work stocking / stockinette stitch
• Seam knitted pieces (mattress stitch).
• Do a provisional cast on
• Wrap stitches for working short rows
• Do a three-needle bind off

Instructions for everything else are included in the pattern.
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Yarn Required

Body: Any yarn from fingering to worsted weight; amount can be calculated with CustomFit if swatch weight and dimensions are available. Sample in Malabrigo Sock held double.

Collar: light fingering weight yarn, to allow the collar to fold as intended, between 440 - 800 yards depending on chosen cardigan length. Sample in Malabrigo Sock.