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Bend your elbow
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!
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- First published: August 2026
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