Season make-over of this fun & easy pattern: this one’s a sturdy autumn sweater. It’s soft, warm, bright and I love it. Did short rows for elbows, great for outdoorsey gals.
Used pink and yellow-green alpaca together. Both these colours are quite the challenge and nothing i did with them really worked. Until i put them together. I never could’ve guessed that they would make up for such a lively shade of orange. It’s wonderful & just what i need. Don’t you love it when that happens!

My mods

• Used sports yarn held double, resulting in worsted weight.
• At row 11 i did provisional cast-on for front neck, 42 stitches (so front and back neck have same amount of stitches)
• Skipped the faux side seem
• Short row shaping for elbows
• Body shaping: DEcrease starting 1” after separating for sleeves, every 4th row, 1 st. in each side, 6 times (12 st.) total. After that, 12 plain rows. Then increasing again, forgot how much but less than 12 st.

Short row shaping for elbows

Short rows do prevent some wear and tear on the elbows. They look just fine on sporty sweaters. I wouldn’t use them on an elegant model, though.

Start right after 2nd decrease. Let’s call this row 1.
Number of st. at this point: 49 (size m).
Short rows in uneven rows.
Plain knitting in even rows.

Right elbow shaping
Row 1 & 15: knit 13, place marker, knit 9, WRAP stitch #10, pm on left needle, slip wrapped stitch back to left needle (tip-to-tip, to keep the position of the stitch), TURN.
Purl 8, wrap last st. before m, turn.
Knit to one st. before m, pull wrap over st., knit wrap & st. tog, rem. m. (Row 2 & 16: knit to last m, rem. m, pull wrap over st., knit wrap & st. tog., knit to end.)

Row 3 & 13: knit 11, pm, knit 13, w&t + pm at st #14,
purl 12, w&t last st. before m.
Knit to one st. before m, pull wrap over st., knit wrap & st. tog, rem. m. (Row 4 &14: knit to last m, rem. m, pull wrap over st., knit wrap & st. tog., knit to end.)

Row 5 & 11: knit 9, pm, knit 17, w&t + pm at st #18,
purl 16, w&t last st. before m.
Knit to one st. before m, pull wrap over st., knit wrap & st. tog, rem. m. (Row 6 & 12: knit to last m, rem. m, pull wrap over st., knit wrap & st. tog., knit to end.)

Row 7 & 9: knit 7, pm, knit 21, w&t + pm at st #22,
purl 20, w&t last st. before m.
Knit to one st. before m, pull wrap over st., knit wrap & st. tog, row 7: keep m. in place, row 9: rem. m. (Row 8 & 10: knit to last m, {row 8: keep marker, row 10: rem. m,} pull wrap over st., knit wrap & st. tog., knit to end.

(Row 16/1: knit, decrease)

Left elbow shaping
Row 1 & 15: knit 26, place marker, knit 9, WRAP stitch #10, pm on left needle, slip wrapped stitch back to left needle (tip-to-tip, to keep the position of the stitch), TURN.
Purl 8, wrap last st. before m, turn.
Knit to one st. before m, pull wrap over st., knit wrap & st. tog, rem. m. (Row 2 & 16: knit to last m, rem. m, pull wrap over st., knit wrap & st. tog., knit to end.)

Row 3 & 13: knit 24, pm, knit 13, w&t + pm at st #14,
purl 12, w&t last st. before m.
Knit to one st. before m, pull wrap over st., knit wrap & st. tog, rem. m. (Row 4 &14: knit to last m, rem. m, pull wrap over st., knit wrap & st. tog., knit to end.)

Row 5 & 11: knit 22, pm, knit 17, w&t + pm at st #18,
purl 16, w&t last st. before m.
Knit to one st. before m, pull wrap over st., knit wrap & st. tog, rem. m. (Row 6 & 12: knit to last m, rem. m, pull wrap over st., knit wrap & st. tog., knit to end.)

Row 7 & 9: knit 20, pm, knit 21, w&t + pm at st #22,
purl 20, w&t last st. before m.
Knit to one st. before m, pull wrap over st., knit wrap & st. tog, row 7: keep m. in place, row 9: rem. m. (Row 8 & 10: knit to last m, {row 8: keep marker, row 10: rem. m,} pull wrap over st., knit wrap & st. tog., knit to end.

(Row 16/1: knit, decrease)

Cuffs & cowl
Picked up 100 st around the neck w/ 4mm. needle. Three knit rows w two alpaca’s, then changed to the green mohair + pink alpaca.
1 row in green mohair, then decrease 10 st. evenly among the hundred.
Alternating between 4 and 3,5 mm. needles.
4th row mohair, first purl round.
Cowl in sync w cuffs and hem, but not very big.
I’ve knit a nice big separate cowl: http://www.ravelry.com/projects/pepii/cowl-oranje

Sweater is modelled by the lovely miss Barnes on a sunny evening in september, when it was still 75 degrees even on the lakes. Thank you sweetie for bravely modelling this “eew! itchy and phew! hot” sweater for us.
(Update: she’d only worn it for ten minutes tops and already she wanted me to knit her one, too.)