Physician's Sweater by Frank H. Jernigan

Physician's Sweater

Knitting
February 2018
DK (11 wpi) ?
22 stitches and 28 rows = 4 inches
in stockinette stitch
US 4 - 3.5 mm
US 6 - 4.0 mm
1612 - 1736 yards (1474 - 1587 m)
Men’s L (1X, 2X)
English

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The two patterns, the DNA strand and the caduceus, are both done in the Alpine style which involves traveling stitches made by one-by-one crossovers where the knit stitch is deliberately twisted to create a higher relief. This style is very difficult to work flat because the crossovers often occur on every single row, not just on the right side as in Aran patterns. As a result, I devised a new way to create a sweater with set-in sleeves which can be worked in the round all the way up to the neck, rather than just to the underarm. The fullness required for set-in sleeves is provided by working a few short rows in the sleeve caps. As a result, only a few rows of the DNA pattern need to be worked flat at the sides of the neck and the complicated wings of the caduceus are worked entirely in the round.