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The Sheep Jumper
Paint a picture with yarn! The Sheep Jumper is a nostalgic statement piece, colours and textures blending to make a pastoral scene of sheep frolicking beside a fruit tree, with a country cottage in the distance, and a lone cloud in a summer sky. It is knitted using the intarsia technique, and even includes bobbles.
The sweater is knit flat in four pieces from the bottom up, with a slash neck and dropped shoulders. With up to 15 different yarn shades, with only small amounts of each shade used, it is fantastic stashbusting pattern!
TECHNIQUES:
Cable cast on
Stocking Stitch/ Stockinette
1 x 1 rib
Knitting bobbles
Increasing in front and back of stitch, decreasing (k2tog)
Following a colourwork chart
Seaming stitches: Mattress, horizontal invisible stitch, backstitch
Binding off/casting off in 1 x 1 rib
TENSION/GAUGE
With 6mm over stocking stitch/stockinette 14 sts x 19 rows = 10 x 10cm/4 x 4 ins
YARN & NEEDLE RECOMMENDATION
Any chunky/ bulky weight yarn, or aran/worsted weight yarns held double. In fact, any yarns that meet the tension/gauge stated with 6mm needles, or size to obtain tension/gauge.
5mm needles for rib, 6mm straight or a circular needle (60 or 80cm) for main.
YARN AMOUNTS (approximate)
Between 1000 - 1600m of chunky weight yarn
SIZING
Suggested positive ease: 6-8 ins/15-20cm
Sizes: S, M, L, XL, 2X, 3X
Bust circumference: 41(43, 45.5, 48, 50, 52.5) ins/104 (110, 115, 121, 127, 133) cm
Length: approx 23ins/58cm
TUTORIALS
A tutorial to accompany this pattern is available on YouTube (Theodora Goes Wild) and IGTV (@theodora_goes_wild).
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- First published: May 2021
- Page created: May 27, 2021
- Last updated: November 28, 2024 …
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