The Starburst Sweater is a beautiful fitted garment with a star-shaped hole in the front.

This sweater pattern is written for any size, at any gauge. You’ll need to make some calculations throughout the process to figure out your measurements and the stitch counts you’ll use, so have a calculator handy! I do recommend staying between 20sts-28sts per 4in square, any smaller/larger and the star won’t fit. Much larger body types may need to make some modifications.

You’ll need to buy a 10cm metal star (you can find them by searching for dream catchers on sites such as AliExpress). The sweater is knit flat, the front and back separately, and arms picked up around the armholes for set-in sleeves. The front panel is knit from the centre outwards in a spiral, and shaped into a sweater shape using increases, decreases, bind offs, and short rows.

Materials:

• Set of circular needles with interchangeable cord lengths, as the initial in-the-round cast on is quite small, but gets progressively bigger as you work outwards in a spiral.
• Set of smaller circular needles for the ribbing.
• Yarn needle
• 10 Markers
• Small crochet hook
• Calculator
• Measuring tape

Skills:

• Casting-on + binding-off
• Knitting
• Purling
• Ribbing
• RLI and LLI increases
• Decreasing
• German short rows
• Basic crochet