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Forty Love is a modern spin on the classic tennis sweater. The garment is a set-in-sleeve pullover worked flat and in-pieces from the top-down in a plush cable rib pattern. Knitters can choose to make the garment using a simple intarsia split or make the main stitch pattern all in one color. Knitters can additionally choose to make full sleeves or keep it as a vest. Once established, the cable rib pattern and the optional intarsia split is not broken. This makes this garment a straightforward, but engaging knit.

First, the back is worked flat with shaped shoulders, after the back yoke panel is shaped, the body is worked down through the hem. The front yoke panels are picked up directly along the back panel. The V-neck is then shaped and the front panels continue through the underarm, then the body all the way to the 2x2 ribbed hem. If making sleeves, the sleeve cap is picked up around the armholes and shaped using short rows and then worked flat to the cuff. The garment is then blocked to dimensions and then seamed. If making a vest, armhole ribbing is added. Finally the collar is picked-up and worked.

Forty Love includes 10 sizes with a finished chest circumference of 34” to 70” (86.5 to 178 cm). This pattern also features gender-inclusive sizing. For each of these 10 sizes, two sizes are graded based on shoulder widths, which is one of the primary ways bodies proportionally vary for those with the same chest size. This means there are 20 unique sizes in this pattern.

Choose to make the Narrow Shoulder size if the recipient finds that the shoulders on womenswear garments fits them well or the shoulders of menswear garments are too wide. Make the Broad Shoulder size if the recipient finds that the shoulders on menswear garments fits them well or the shoulders on womenswear garments are too narrow.

Here is list of all the options presented in the pattern:

• A simple intarsia split in the main stitch pattern
• Full sleeves or vest
• Cropped or full body lengths
• 2 different instructions for full sleeves
• 2 different instructions for body lengths

View full schematics, sizing guide, and options explanation here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xlwHujkABoQiThyWHHcI1wS6...

Sizes
1 (2, 3, 4) (5, 6, 7) (8, 9, 10)

Measurements
Finished chest measurement: 34 (38, 42, 46) (50, 54, 58) (62, 66, 70)”/86.5 (96.5, 106.5, 117) (127, 137, 147.5) (157.5, 167.5, 178) cm.

Recommended 6 to 10” (15 to 25 cm) of positive ease through the chest. The full sleeve sample is a Narrow Shoulder Size 3 with 8” (20 cm) of positive ease. The vest sample is a Broad Shoulder Size 4 with 6” (15 cm) of positive ease.

Suggested Yarn
Woolfolk TovDK (100% Ovis 21 Ultimate Merino®), 160 yds (146 m)/50 g in

Broad Shoulder
MC1: TDK13, 4 (4, 5, 5) (5, 6, 6) (7, 7, 8) skeins
MC2: TDK06, 4 (4, 5, 5) (5, 6, 6) (7, 7, 8) skeins
CC1: TDK10, 1 (1, 1, 1) (1, 1, 1) (1, 1, 1) skein
CC2: TDK03, 1 (1, 1, 1) (1, 1, 1) (1, 1, 1) skein

Narrow Shoulder
MC1: TDK13, 3 (4, 4, 5) (5, 5, 6) (6, 7, 7) skeins
MC2: TDK06, 3 (4, 4, 5) (5, 5, 6) (6, 7, 7) skeins
CC1: TDK10, 1 (1, 1, 1) (1, 1, 1) (1, 1, 1) skein
CC2: TDK03, 1 (1, 1, 1) (1, 1, 1) (1, 1, 1) skein

Yardage
Sport weight

Broad Shoulder Yardage
MC1: 510 (560, 650, 720) (770, 860, 930) (1020, 1090, 1140) yds/466 (512, 594, 658) (704, 786, 850) (933, 997, 1042) m
MC2: 510 (560, 650, 720) (770, 860, 930) (1020, 1090, 1140) yds/466 (512, 594, 658) (704, 786, 850) (933, 997, 1042) m
CC1: 75 (80, 90, 100) (110, 115, 125) (135, 145, 150) yds/
69 (73, 82, 91) (101, 105, 114) (123, 133, 137) m
CC2: 35 (40, 45, 50) (55, 60, 65) (65, 70, 75) yds/
32 (37, 41, 46) (50, 55, 59) (59, 64, 69) m

Narrow Shoulder Yardage
MC1: 450 (510, 580, 630) (700, 770, 840) (920, 990, 1060) yds/411 (466, 530, 576) (640, 704, 768) (841, 905, 969) m
MC2: 450 (510, 580, 630) (700, 770, 840) (920, 990, 1060) yds/411 (466, 530, 576) (640, 704, 768) (841, 905, 969) m
CC1: 75 (80, 90, 100) (110, 115, 125) (135, 145, 150) yds/
69 (73, 82, 91) (101, 105, 114) (123, 133, 137) m
CC2: 35 (40, 45, 50) (55, 60, 65) (65, 70, 75) yds/
32 (37, 41, 46) (50, 55, 59) (59, 64, 69) m
Estimates based on full-sleeve and full-body length. The Details and Sizing Guide (linked above) has more yardage information.

Sample Needles
Main needle: US 5 (3.75 mm) or size needed to achieve gauge in 40” (102 cm).

Smaller Needle: US 3 (3.25 mm) or two sizes smaller than main needle in 24” (60 cm) and 40” (102 cm).

Gauge
26 sts x 34 rows = 4”/ 10 cm in cable rib pattern, worked flat and blocked on US 5 (3.75 mm) needle or size needed to achieve gauge.

Notions
Scissors
Tapestry needle
Stitch markers
Scrap yarn/holder

Featured Techniques
Knitting
Purling
Picking up Stitches
Increasing
Decreasing
German short rows
Cables
Intarsia (optional)