Ola Placket Pullover by Lucinda Guy

Ola Placket Pullover

Knitting
April 2010
Fingering (14 wpi) ?
24 stitches and 35 rows = 4 inches
in stockinette
US 2½ - 3.0 mm
1640 - 2296 yards (1500 - 2099 m)
35 3/4", 39", 43", 47", 51"
English
Errata available: needleworktraditions.com

In the Nordiska Museet in Stockholm, there are some beautiful examples of simple white linen work shirts and shifts that have embroidered details of hearts, stylized flowers, and birds at the neckline and on the sleeves. The shortish and loose-fitting Ola sweater is a knitted version of those embroidered shirts. Using pure two-strand white Swedish wool, both the sleeves and the main body are knitted in the round, then embellished with simple cross-stitches and French knots. The three-quarter-length sleeves begin with a lovely red and white twined knitted cast-on. This sweater is ideal for layering.