About this pattern:

This pattern is a dropped shoulder sweater. This pattern is knitted from the top down, using circular needles. You will first work flat to make back top of the sweater. After you have completed that, you will pick up stitches for each shoulder to begin the front of the sweater.

You can customize the fit for the sweater depending on how you want it to took. My circumference is 35 inches (89 cm), the first sweater (Blue) I knitted a size 2 which has a positive ease of 4 inches. For the second sweater (Pink), I knitted a size 3 to have a positive ease of 8 inches.

The first sweater was knitted using Sandnes Garn Peer Gynt held together with Tynn Silk Mohair.

The second sweater was knitted using Knitting For Olive Heavy Merino.

Customized Ribbing- Neck and Body:
You can adjust the ribbing on the sweater to however long you want the neck and body to be. If you want a short collar, you can knit 1 or 2 inches (2.5 to 5 cm) or you can even double rib if you desire (like I did with the second sweater). As per the body, I knitted 1.5 inches (3.8 cm) at the bottom, but if you want your sweater to fit longer, knit more inches.

Gauge: 21 sts x 28 rows using 4 mm (US 6) needles 4x4 inch (10x10 cm)

If you don’t hit gauge, go up or down a needle size in order to meet gauge

Materials:

• Main Body: 4mm (US 6) circular needles 40” (100 cm)
• Ribbing: 3.5 mm (US 4) circular needles 40” (100 cm)
• Tapestry Needle
• Stitch Marker

Yarn:

Sweater 1: Blue

• Main Color: Sandnes Garn- Sunday 1015 “Putty” (50g)
• Colorwork 1: Sandnes Garn- Tynn Peer Gynt 5575 “Marine” (50g)
• Colorwork 2: Sandnes Garn- Babyull Lanett 5930 “Light Blue” (50g) Held together with
• Main color: Sandness Garn- Tynn Silk Mohair 1015 “Putty” (25g)
• Colorwork 1: Sandnes Garn- Tynn Silk Mohair 5581 “Deep Marine” (25g)
• Colorwork 2: Sandnes Garn- Tynn Silk Mohair 6012 “Light Blue” (25g)

Sweater 2: Pink

• Main Color: Knitting for Olive- Heavy Merino “Elderflower” (50g)
• Colorwork 1: Knitting for Olive- Heavy Merino “Pink Daisies” (50g)
• Colorwork 2: Knitting for Olive- Heavy Merino “Green Woodpecker” (50g)

Yardage:
MC: 1028, 1150, 1285, 1435, 1542, 1650, 1799 yards
C1: 204, 210, 250, 250 300, 300, 300 yards
C2: 100, 100, 150, 150, 200, 200, 200 yards

Techniques:

• Back loop cast on method
• Italian Bind Off

Please see photos for Size chart

Updates: I have updated the pattern from the original test knit. The sleeves were too large, so I added decreases throughout knitting the sleeves.

This pattern has been tested and tech edited

Tech edited by Nadya Osipova