This is sweater for beginners (or advanced knitters who are looking for a relaxing TV knit) and will be FREE forever (or as long as Ravelry exists).

“Leichtmatrose“ is an untrained sailor in German.
The sweater ist worked down, basically with Raglan increases, but with a little twist to shape a rounded front neck:
On the front side, the Raglan increases are worked less often, and every 16 rounds, they are complemented by a set of radial yoke increases.
(I call this method „SiRaYo“, which stands for “Simple Raglan with Yoke (increases)“.)

Difficulty level: * out of *****
Needed skills
• Knit stitches, purl stitches (not too many of them)
• Increases in 2 directions: left-leaning (M1L) and right-leaning (M1R).
• Decreases in 2 directions: right-leaning (k2tog ) and left-leaning (ssk).
No short rows, no picking up stitches from edges (except a few underarm stitches), and absolutely no sewing!

Needles & gauge
Main needle size is 3,5mm (or needle size to obtain gauge). 3,0mm for ribbings at neck, hem and cuff.
Gauge: 24 sts x 34 rows in Stockinette after blocking. Approx. 1000/ 1100/ 1200/ 1300/ 1400 m of a Sport Weight yarn needed (with approx. 50m more of color C1 than of C2 for the edgings). 4 stitch markers required.

Yarn
Any Sport weight yarn (or Fingering weight, if you are a loose knitter) that knits up to the specific gauge.
For my sample, I have used the beautiful hand-dyed Färbebengel Poppenbüttel (75% Merino, 25% Silk, 266m/ 100g) in colors C1 = “Blauer Panther” and C2 = “Gorgonzola” in 2-row stripes.
But you could as well use up odd skeins and leftovers and configure your own stripes.