The Marie pullover was inspired by a famous christmasy “Nutcracker” book written by E.T.A. Hoffmann in 1816. Marie was the main character who saved the Nutcracker form the Mouse King.

Marie has a very relaxed fit fit round yoke garment knit seamlessly top-down, starting with a provisional cast-on.

Neckband is worked after body and hem are done.

Sleeves and body are separated at the underarm and knit separately.

The back is slightly longer than the front (worked with short-rows).

All the ribbings are knit with a smaller needle size.

Finished garment’s measurements at bust:
114/120/125/132/137cm
45/47/49/52/54/in

For knitting this pullover you will need 2 contrast colors of yarn.

TECHNIQUES USED:

• Provisional Cast-On for the neck-hole;
• Two-colored colorwork;
• Invisible left- and right leaning Increases;
• Separating round yoke for body and sleeves;
• Short rows with Wrap & Turn method;
• Tubular bind-off (changing from 2x2 to 1x1 ribbing, hollow ribbing, bind-off).

Yarn:
For size XS/S/M/L/XL:

MC: 9/10/11/11/12 skeins,
CC: 2/2/2/2/2 skeins of Camarose LamaUld (sold in 50 g/218 yards skeins).

OR

1. 450 (500) 550 (550) 600 g/900 (1000) 1100 (1100) 1200 m/984 (1094) 1203 (1203) 1312 yards of MC;

2. 100 (100) 100 (100) 100 g/ 200 (200) 200 (200) 200 m/218 (218) 218 (218) 218 yards of CC of worsted/aran weight yarn.

The sample is shown in CamaRose LamaUld 1/2 colorways 6061 and 6000. Size M