We may not have the technology to drape ourselves in the sound of Robert Stack’s voice, but at least we can clothe ourselves in nostalgia with this cozy crop sweater! The design includes stranded colorwork worked flat, with set-in sleeves and tubular bind offs for a polished, store-bought look that’ll have your true crime enthusiast friends dying to know where you got it.

*** This pattern has been professionally tech edited ***

Sizing
This sweater comes in one size-- laid flat it measures 25 inches from pit to pit, and 14.5 inches in height, with 20 inch sleeves.

Construction
The body of the Unsolved Mysteries sweater is knitted flat, top down, beginning with the back panel. The front panel is picked up at the shoulders and worked flat. The collar is worked in the round. The sides of the body are then seamed together and the sleeves are picked up from the shoulders and worked in the round.

Materials Needed

• US 3/ 3.25mm circular needles
• US 2.5/ 3.0mm circular needes
• US 1.5/ 2.5mm circular needles and DPNs
• fingering weight yarn in black: 1000 yards / 250g (used in this project: Sandnes Garn Tynn Peer Gynt in Smoke) white: 20 yards / 5g (used in this project: BeanBlossomFibers sock yarn in The 80’s, For Sure) pink: 10 yards / 2.5g (used in this project: HappyDaysFiberArts sock in Thistle) lavender: 20 yards / 5g (used in this project: HappyDaysFiberArts sock in Purple Poly)
• tapestry needle
• stitch markers

Gauge
27 stitches and 32 rows = 4 inches in stockinette stitch
using 3.25mm needles, after blocking

Techniques

• Old Norwegian cast on
• German short rows
• tubular bind off
• ladder back jacquard
• mattress stitch