The Catvent Sweater is designed for advent calendars, although it’s just as happy hoovering up your scrap pile. It’s knit in a DK-weight yarn (or 4-ply held double), which means it’s a reasonably speedy knit.

It’s a top-down, catty-colourwork knit, with drop sleeves and lots of options for customisation.

Make it your own!

The Catvent sweater comes in seven sizes, to fit chest sizes from 75 - 160cm (allowing for 25cm of positive ease).

There are three lengths to choose from;

• cropped - waist-length. I love this style layered over tunics, long shirts and dresses
• regular - hip-skimming. This length is perfect with jeans
• long - butt-covering. This makes for the cosiest of sweater cocoons

And there are four neckline options;

• cowl neck
• turtle neck (narrow neckline)
• boat neck (wide neckline)
• crew neck (narrow neckline)

Steek it?

There are instructions for both a steeked and unsteeked sweater.

You’ll need between 400 and 1050m of main colour (those stripes behind the cats) depending on the size and the options you choose, plus between 200 and 500m of CC1 (the catty colourwork colour) and between 300 and 500m of CC2 (the sleeves/ hem/ neck).

Gauge

21 sts/ 24 rows for the colourwork section
21sts/ 27 rows in stocking stitch.

Size chart

    chest        wrist        length      length      length
    circumf      to wrist     short       medium      long  

1 100cm 155cm 47cm 57cm 67cm
2 115cm 157cm 47cm 57cm 67cm
3 130cm 159cm 47cm 57cm 67cm
4 145cm 160cm 47cm 57cm 67cm
5 160cm 161cm 47cm 57cm 67cm
6 175cm 163cm 47cm 57cm 67cm
7 190cm 165cm 47cm 57cm 67cm