The Melton is a cropped relaxed slipover with deep armholes worked from the bottom up in stranded colourwork knitting with a contrast ribbing detail to the hem, neck and armholes.
Named for Melton Constable, a small very oddly unique village in Norfolk. Melton Constable was built in the 1890’s as an M & GNJR railway company village. Built to house workers for its surprisingly large railway works. For its size it was a remarkable place. The works operated over 120 miles of track, built and repaired locomotives and catered for the civil engineering needs of Norfolks rail network. The company village boasted high quality housing, allotments, recreation grounds and schools. Its fortunes chart those of the railway network. It become the first railway system in the UK to be broken up. Its once thriving works now lost.
The colourwork design of the Melton is inspired by the once abundant network of lines and stations that have disappeared into disconnected fragments of grassy tracks, bridges to nowhere and remnants of forgotten places.

DESIGN NOTES

The Melton features a charted stranded colourwork design on the front. The back is knitted plain. You could of course do your own thing and repeat the colourwork on the back. The front and back pieces are worked flat from the bottom up beginning with a 2x2 ribbed hem in CC1. The front and back pieces are then joined at the shoulder. Stitches are then picked up along the neckline and the neck band is worked in 2X2 rib in CC1. The remaining shoulder and neck band are joined. Stitches are picked up along each armhole and the armbands are worked in 2x2 rib in CC1. Lastly, the sides are seamed. The hem can be left open or you could join for a full seam.

SIZES
Sizes given are for actual garment size, with a 10cm ease. 8 sizes from 85 - 155 cm / 33.5 - 61 in chest size at 10cm / 4 inch increments.

YARN

YARN SUBSTITUTE
Any suitable 4-ply fingering weight yarn
MC 400 - 800 m / 437 - 875 yds
CC1 200 - 400m / 219 - 400 yds
CC2 200 - 300m /219 - 328 yds