IN search for a light, everyday sweater pattern, I figured I might as well try to adapt Isabell Kraemer’s Elah. I love my green Elah to bits and wonder whether I could just not knit the lace pattern. So far, just ignoring the instructions and knitting the lace bit as plain stockinette is working well.

I also want to turn this into a v-neck-having, somewhat cropped sweater, so will have to figure out a way to marry the front ribbing together at some point. Possibly with a 3-needle-operation. We’ll see. ETA: 3NBO worked like a charm, I added one stitch from the body to the bind off and knit the outermost 2 icord stitches together in the process. On the row of the bindoff you can ignore the ribbing and just work stockinette on one half of the edge to keep the bind off flatter when joining edges.

4mm needles yield a fairly loose fabric with the Frankenwolle. It feels nice, I hope it will hold up later on.