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“Vitelotte” is the French name of a potato species with an interesting look, and it is the shade of my main yarn. It has provided the name for this relaxed summer sweater with short sleeves, which could also be worn in autumn with a longsleeve underneath.

Construction
The unusual construction starts with 4 separate slip stitch panels (for center front, back and both shoulders). Afterwards everything is joined by working 4 connecting pieces in main color, ending with a 3-needle-bindoff at the sidelines. The 2-colored panels on body and shoulders are worked with slip stitches – no Stranded Knitting skills required.

Yarn, gauge and needle size
Approx. 950-1400m main color MC and 220-270m contrast color CC of a Fingering weight yarn needed which knits up to 27 sts x 38 rows in Stockinette and approx.
30 sts x 54 rows in slip stitch pattern.
Main needle is 3,0mm; use a 2,0 mm needle for Garter ridges and edges.

(At a gauge of 25 sts, the piece would get approx. 1 size bigger. You could also work at any gauge by given measurements only - some of my testers have successfully done this.)

The sample was worked in handdyed Seehawer & Siebert Turin (60% wool, 20% silk, 20% Ramie, 425m/ 100g) together with Skudderia handdyed Pinta (same fiber mix and yardage).

Error corrections for version 1.0:
German version only:
Seite 4, Schritt 5:
R 4 (RR): Wie Reihe 2.
In den Reihen 1-4 wurde die Mittelmasche und 23 M drum herum abgenommen.

S.5
Die anderen 3 „Ecken” auffüllen
Linkes Vorderteil: …**
R 2 (HR) mit Eckabn.: Re bis 2 M vor Eck-MM, ssk, MM abh, 1re, MM abh, k2tog, li bis Ende.