Based on a free pattern I got a long time ago from Elann’s website. Pattern is no longer on Elann, but I found it on the Wayback Machine: http://web.archive.org/web/20041207144736/http://secure.e...

Note: Evidently the sweater is vastly oversized on the model and pinned in back. It looks like a drop-shoulder sweater, but it’s a modified drop. If you want the dark portion of the yoke to hang down that low on the arms, it would be better to knit the sweater as a drop shoulder instead (no armhole shaping on the body pieces).

Errata - The last sentence of the “Finishing” section has three apparent errors:

1. The collar should be worked with the smaller, circular needle. Otherwise, the circular needle isn’t used anywhere in the pattern - that’s the only place that makes sense.

2. Instead of P 3/14” [8cm], it should say P 3 1/4” [8 cm].

3. Change to ecru yarn for the 1 1/2” roll edge.

I’m making various changes to the pattern. It’s supposed to have some embroidery on it, but I’m going to skip that.

My gauge is different (14 sts and 20 rows over 4”), so I cast on 134 sts for the entire body. Worked in the round to the armholes/color change.

Added 4” to the length. Boxy, cropped tops do not suit me. Because I added so much length, I ran out of the lighter yarn and had to make some changes to the sleeve and collar.

For the neck, I knit it as written, but didn’t like it. I ripped out half of it, and still didn’t like it. Ended up ripping out the entire neck/collar and redoing it with the smaller needles in garter stitch for about an inch and a half - 14 rounds (7 garter ridges), then changing to the lighter color and working 2 rounds (one garter ridge) and binding off. I’m much happier with how it looks, and the garter stitch blends in well with the reverse stockinette.

I didn’t have enough of the lighter yarn to make the sleeves as indicated, and I didn’t like the size/shaping anyway. After knitting about 8 sleeves and ripping them out, with none of them making me really happy, I finally went with a traditional sleeve cap. I used the light yarn up to the sleeve cap, then the dark yarn for the cap. I cast on 32 sts and worked the bottom part of the sleeve as written. After changing to the lighter yarn, I increased every 4th row to 52 sts, then worked straight up to the sleeve cap. For the cap, I bound off 4 sts on each side, then decreased 1 st at each edge on every RS row to 14 sts and bound off.

If I were knitting the sweater again, I would either make it a drop-shoulder sweater, or rework the armhole shapings for set-in sleeves. I didn’t like the modified drop at all.

Also, if I were reknitting it, I’d probably just work some rounds of garter stitch at the hem instead of the rolled hem, since it wants to keep flipping up.

Additional notes for self:

Used 17 sts for each shoulder, 25 sts for neck.

I had 100 grams of the lighter color left after finishing the body (without the collar and sleeves).

Adding 3” of length instead of 4” would have been fine.

Never liked wearing this sweater for various reasons, so finally frogged it to reuse the yarn.