Bend your elbow by winterludes

Bend your elbow

Knitting
August 2026
Fingering (14 wpi) ?
26 stitches and 36 rows = 4 inches
in stockinette st
US 3 - 3.25 mm
US 4 - 3.5 mm
1640 - 2843 yards (1500 - 2600 m)
1 to 8
English
This pattern is available for €7.00 EUR buy it now

Bend Your Elbow is a colorful sweater with optional sassy elbows.
Though it was written for women, you can easily adapt it for men by skipping waist shaping.

Bend Your Elbow comes in 8 sizes of chest and 3 length for people measuring 160 cm or less (5’1” or less), between 160 (5’2” to 5’8”) & 179 cm, and over 180 cm (6’)

Finished chest circumference: 33.5, (36, 40, 44, 47, 51, 55, 60)”/ 85, (95, 100, 110, 120, 130, 140, 152) cm

Ease: positive ease 4” to 8” (10 to 20 cm)

Any yarns with the same gauge and that stick well together are suitable.

My version is made with Donegal mohair tweed fingering (70% merino 30% mohair) 219 yds/200 m - 50 g
MC: 5, (5, 6, 7, 8, 8, 9, 10) skeins x 50 g / 250, (250, 300, 350, 400, 400, 450, 500)
grams
Add 100 grams if you are 5”75’/1.75 m or a taller person

CC1: 100 g
CC2: 50 g
CC3: 100 g
CC4: 25 g
CC5: leftovers +/- 15 g
CC6: leftovers +/-10 g

With Big Thanks to the wonderful testers!