Susan by Deb Hoss

Susan

Knitting
July 2016
Sport (12 wpi) ?
23.2 stitches and 35.6 rows = 4 inches
in stockinette stitch
US 4 - 3.5 mm
810 - 1445 yards (741 - 1321 m)
Bust: 31½, 35¾, 40, 43, 47, 51½, 55¾" / 80, 90.75, 101.5, 109.25, 119.5, 130.75, 141.5 cm
English
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This is Susan – a warm weather tee, perfect for anytime and anywhere. I’m wearing it with jeans today and yesterday it complimented dress slacks and heels for my daughter’s baby shower quite nicely! This is a top down, mostly seamless knit. Rib trimming from picked up stitches is worked around its scoop neckline, with a longer variation extending and anchoring its hems. Sleeves are top down too, then worked in the round, and set in after blocking. This design was inspired by the new-to-me waterfall lace – a light and airy, easy to remember 4 stitch by 6 row repeat, that’s both visually interesting and satisfying to create. I hope you’ll agree. Enjoy!

FINISHED MEASUREMENTS
Bust: 31½, 35¾, 40, 43, 47, 51½, 55¾“ / 80, 90.75, 101.5, 109.25, 119.5, 130.75, 141.5 cm
Length: 22¾, 23¼, 23½, 23¾, 24, 24¼, 24½” / 57.75, 59, 59.75, 60.25, 61, 61.5, 62.25 cm at center back

MATERIALS
Yarn
Shown in Venezia Sport by Cascade Yarns (70% merino wool/30% mulberry silk; 307.5 yds/281.25 m per 3.5 oz/100g skein); color – pure diamond #110; 3, 3, 4, 4, 4, 5, 5 skeins, or for comparable yarn, approx. 810, 925, 1030, 1120, 1230, 1340, 1445 yds / 740, 845, 940, 1025, 1125, 1225, 1320 m.
I always have additional yarn on-hand for swatching.

Needles
US4 / 3.5mm or size to obtain gauge
• 1 24 to 32” / 60 to 80 cm circular (circ)
• 1 16” / 40 cm circ for pickin up neckline trim
• 1 set double pointed (dpn) or preferred needle style for working small circumferences of the sleeves in the round

Notions
• Stitch markers
• Stitch holders or waste yarn
• Tapestry needle
• T-pins for blocking (blocking wires optional)

GAUGE (after blocking)
23.2 sts and 35.6 rows = 4” / 10 cm in stockinette stitch (given as gauge reference, not used in the pattern)
22.4 sts and 32 rows = 4” / 10 cm in waterfall lace pattern

SKILLS REQUIRED
Long-tail cast on, cable cast on, circular knitting, decreasing (k2tog) and increasing (yo, RLI, LLI), lace shaping, stitch pick up around neckline, short row shaping at shoulders, blocking, and setting in sleeves.

15 page PDF includes pattern instructions, photographs, schematics, lace descriptions and charts with tips on making lace modifications at shaping points, row tracking grids for managing at-the-same-time instructions, and definitions for relevant abbreviations.