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Inspiration:

We are a family of travellers. We believe, deeply, in a global community. Being parents to two inspiring young ladies we try to instil within them the spirit of global citizenship.
France was next on the list of explorations. It delivered, without a doubt, on food and scenery. One, most unexpected, but most precious region of France was the Dordogne valley. Within Dordogne lies a series of caves more special than most of us realize. Discovered accidently, by a dog, magically exposed by a land slide, in the most inconspicuous region near Montignac village, live Lascaux caves. There, conserved to perfection one finds magnificent paintings done by our human ancestor, the Cro-Magnon man, dance on the walls and ceiling. I will admit, we ventured into the cave to escape the heat of August sun, but we did not emerge for a while as the beauty, the simplicity of colour but complex nature of the paintings took my breath away. Humbled, I observed, I inhaled this special moment that made me feel connected to a different moment of humanity. Times of ice age, hunting and gathering, when our lives were so tough, and we used physical strength to survive. One would imagine, life was much different then. And yet, even then, we found peace and contentment in art. The expressions, the movement and the composition of the paintings is spectacular.
That same spirit of artistic expression lives with all of us today. I feel privileged to share my interpretation of that personal moment with you through this pullover. Knitting is my canvas, my outlet and my emotional saviour. It’s only fitting that we represent these cave paintings through another “ancestral” skill such as hand knitting.
Meeting Caroline from Ancient yarns in New York was serendipitous. She introduced me to her wonderful yarn, coincidentally named Lascaux. She did name this yarn after the cave itself. This yarn is inspired by the ancient arts of spinning and of artistic creation. It includes wool from an Iron Age sheep that is naturally caramel colour, and she dyes it in an array natural colour.
It all clicked together, as serendipitous moment tend to do and this pullover was born.
Hope you enjoy knitting this sweater, as much as I did. Every stitch, for me, was an ode to this amazing memory.

Overview of design/construction:

Knitted top down in one piece with a circular yoke. Featuring sleeve shaping and stranded colour work.
Length can easily be adjusted. Note, modification will affect yarn usage.

Skills required:

• Familiarity with top-down sweater construction,
• German twisted cast-on, twisted backwards loop cast-on and 3 st I-cord bind off,
• Working in the round with circular needles on a small circumference (neck/sleeves) and larger circumference (body),
• Stranded colour work,
• Working from chart,
• Simple decreases/increases.

Level of difficulty: Intermediate

Yarn:
Ancient Arts Yarns Lascaux Fine 100 25% Manx Loaghtan Wool/75% Punta Arenas Wool 3.5oz/100g, 350m/385yd

Ancient Arts Yarns Lascaux Fine 50’s 25% Manx Loaghtan Wool/75% Punta Arenas Wool 1.75oz/50g, 175m/192yd

Sample uses colors:

Main Colour (MC): 2 skeins Oak Ancient Arts Fibre Crafts Lascaux Fine (100gm) + 1 skein Oak Ancient Arts Fibre Crafts Lascaux Fine 50’s

Contrast Colour 1 (CC1): 1 skein Tweed Ancient Arts Fibre Crafts Lascaux Fine 50’s

Contrast Colour 1 (CC2): 1 skein Denim 2 Ancient Arts Fibre Crafts Lascaux Fine 50’s

Contrast Colour 1 (CC3): 1 skein Denim 3 Ancient Arts Fibre Crafts Lascaux Fine 50’s

Contrast Colour 1 (CC4): 1 skein Spice Ancient Arts Fibre Crafts Lascaux Fine 50’s

More colours here:

https://ancientartsfibre.com/collections/in-stock-lascaux...

Amounts required:

Lascaux Fine comes in 100g and 50 g skeins, amounts needed provided in grams.
MC: 200 (250, 300, 400) grams
CC1: 50 (50, 100, 100) grams
CC2: 50 (50, 100, 100) grams
CC3: 50 (50, 100, 100) grams
CC4: 50 (50, 100, 100) grams

Needles:
• Size 4 US (3.5 mm) circulars, (16 in cord to start, increase cord as stitches increase) or sizes needed to obtain gauge. See specific needle information in Gauge section.
• Needle(s) for preferred method of working small diameter (sleeves), dpns, magic loop, or other.
• One DPN, size 3 US (3.25mm) for I-cord BO.

Notions:
• 1 Removable stitch marker to mark BOR,
• Additional stitch markers to denote each stranded colour work repeat (optional),
• Darning needle to weave in ends,
• Waste yarn.

Gauge:

Note: Since it is common for gauge in stranded work to differ from gauge in single-color St st, it is recommended to make a gauge swatch in the round for both types of knitting. This will determine the correct needle size to use for each area. The needle size recommended in the materials list is the size I used.

26st/30rows in 4 in/10 cm blocked swatch, worked in the round.

Make one swatch in stranded work, using any chart. Adjust needle size if necessary, to achieve gauge.
Make another swatch (in the round) in plain St st, MC yarn. Adjust needle size if necessary, to achieve gauge.

Helpful tutorial for swatching in the round here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWANZ86h7C4

Sizes: A, B, C, D

Finished garment bust measurements:
35” (40”, 45”, 50”); 89 (102, 114, 127) cm

Numbers provided in consecutive order, with smallest size first. If one number is given it applies to all sizes.
Pictured in size B, on a model with a 36-inch bust. Positive ease recommended.