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“With or without hood” is a striped hoodie with a lot of ease, OR
It could even be worked as a normal dropped-shoulder summer shirt only with a neck edge, as the hood is added after everything else has been finished.

So if you are an ambitious beginner and not sure if you can manage the hood, there is no risk involved: If the instructions for the hood prove to be too complicated, just add a neck edge instead of the hood, and you will have a very wearable summer shirt or slipover (depending on the material you have used).

The hood is started by picking up stitches around the neck, working in short rows to fill up the deeper front neck, and then worked bottom-up in stripes to its crown, ending with a 3-needle-bindoff.

The sweater itself is worked top-down in stripes, with 2 different stripe sizes. Stitches are picked up around the armholes, and the sleeves are worked top-down to desired length: I have chosen short sleeves for the sample, but the pattern also includes hints how to work a long-sleeve version.

Yarn & gauge
Needles: Main needle size is 3,0mm; 2,5 and 2,0mm for edges.
Gauge: 28 sts x 40 rows in Stockinette.
Yarn: Approx. 580+420/ 650+470/ 720+520/ 790+570/ 860+620/ 930+670 m (main color + contrast color) of a Light Fingering weight yarn for shirt version.
(Approx. 150+100m more for the version with hood.)

For my sample, I have used Skudderia’s new yarn “Organic Woolin” (70% Wool, 30% Linen, 466m/ 100g).

Worked at a gauge of 2 sts less on 10cm, you can go down 1 size.