Dreams Sweater is a simple sweater with a huge personality - with a personalized intarsia motif on the centre of the body worked in brushed mohair. When I was a child, I wished for a cockatoo as a pet. And now the dream has finally come true. You can choose to use one of the accompanying diagrams for the motif or you can follow the instructions to create your very own motif and perhaps make your childhood dream come true? Dreams sweater is worked from the bottom of the front piece back and forth in stockinette stitch with intarsia technique. The motif is worked in 4 threads Tilia and the rest of the sweater in Pernilla and Tilia held together. After the intarsia section stitches are cast off at the bottom of the neckline and the shoulder sections are now worked separately. First, decreases are made towards the neck to form a beautiful neckline. The sloping shoulder is shaped using short rows, and finally the rounding of the back of the neck is made working increases. The stitches of each shoulder part are joined and the back is worked in Stockinette back and forth. The side seams are sewn together with mattress stitches, and the body is finished with a ribbed edge in half twisted rib. Stitches are knit up along the armhole and the sleeve is worked with decreases on the underside and a wide trim in half twisted rib at the bottom. The neckline trim is also worked in a half twisted rib, which is double layered and attached on the wrong side of the work. Finally, the motif is brushed making the mohair fibres even fluffier which creates a 3D effect.

Choice of size
The model has a positive ease of 15-20 cm in size XS-XL and 10-15 cm in XXL-XXXL. This means that you should choose a size that measures 15-20 /10-15 cm more than your own chest measurement. If you have a chest measurement of 96 cm, you should choose a size M with a circumference of 116 cm.

Size XS (S) M (L) XL (XXL) XXXL

Fits chest measurement 80-87 (88-93) 94-99 (100-107) 108-116 (117-126) 127-136 cm

Circumference 104 (110) 116 (122) 130 (138) 146 cm

Length (measured in the middle of the back including rib) 61 (62) 63 (64) 66 (67) 68 cm

Knitting gauge 20 stitches • 28 rows in stockinette stitch on needles 4 mm = 10 • 10 cm

Suggested needles Circular needle 3.5 and 4 mm (40 and 80-100 cm, as well as double pointed needles unless the magic loop technique is being used).

Materials
Background colour: 1 strand of Pernilla (175 m/ 50 g) held together with 1 strand of Tilia (210 m/ 25 g) from Filcolana
Pattern colours: 4 strands of Tilia held together

Pernilla: 300 (300) 350 (350) 400 (450) 500 g
Tilia: 75 (75) 150 (150) 175 (200) 225 g

Tilia for the motif - it takes about 10 g of Tilia for 500 stitches worked with 4 strands together
See the approximate consumption in the chart