Knock your socks off sweater
I found some fabulous sock yarn I decided would make a great sweater, but got very frustrated trying to find a pattern that would work for such thin yarn. I guess people think you're crazy if you want to knit a whole adult sweater in sock yarn. But I know this pattern would work for all the fun self patterning sock yarns out there. I found an old sweater pattern from about the 1930s (but they sure didn't make patterns easy to read back then) and based this one on that. Note: this is a basic sweater and you can easily design your own neck shape for this -v, crew, boat, squareetc.
Size: S
Bust: finished size 34" Materials: Strollfingering for bands (1 x Midnight heather), 10 different balls of Felici (a fun self-striping sock yarn) for colors. I used: 1. Tyrian purple 2. Moonlit 3. Aquarium 4. Caprice 5. Hummingbird 6. Rainbow 7. Tiki 8. Time traveler 9. Mixed berries 10. Cochineal Gauge: 31 sts and 40 rows = 4" x 4" (I used size 4 (3.5mm) needles to achieve gauge, but my gauge tends to be different to that of other people)
BACK
Cast on 138 sts Work 20 rows k2 p2 rib. IMPORTANT: EACH FOLLOWING COLORIS WORKEDFOR2OROWSSTOCKINETTE (EXCEPT COLOR 10) Switch to color 1: st st 10 rows.Dec 1 st each end rows 11, 17.
Color 4: Inc 1 st each end rows 11, 15, 19 Color 6: straight 20 rows Color 7: B.0. 5 st beg rows 1, 2 Dec 1 st each end following 11 rows (ending on row 13) (106 st) Color 8: straight 20 rows Color 9: straight 20 rows Color 10: bind off 12 st beg rows 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 Bind off remaining st (or keep on stitch holder to pick up for neck band, but finished product (if using constrasting colors such as in the picture) looks better if bind off st)
FRONT
Work same as back until end color 6 Color 7: B.O. 8 st beg rows 1, 2 Dec 1 st each end rows 3, 5, 7 Start neck row 9: Dec 1 armhole edge, k45, turn Row 10: B.0.4, p to end Row 11: Dec 1 armhole edge Row 12: B.0. 4, p to end Row 13: Dec 1 armhole edge Row 14: B.0.3, p to end Row 15: Dec 1 armhole edge Row 16: B.0.3, p to end Row 18: B.0. 3, p to end Row 20: B.0. 2, p to end
Color 8:
Row 2: B.O. 2, p to end Rows 4, 6, 8: B.0. 1, p to end (18 st) Color 9: straight Color 10: B.0. 12 st beg row 13, B.0. rem st row 15. Bind of center 24 st. (I left neck st on st holder and didn't like how it turned out.) Work right side to correspond
SLEEVES
Work 2 IMPORTANT: EACH FOLLOWING COLOR IS WORKED FOR 20 ROWS STOCKINETTE (EXCEPT COLOR 10) Cast on 62 st, work 20 rows k2p2 rib Color 1: inc 1 st middle of row Inc 1 st each end rows 7, 14 Color 2: inc 1 st each end rows 1, 8, 15 Color 3: inc 1 st each end rows 2, 9, 16 Color 4: Inc 1 st each end rows 3, 10, 17 Color 5: inc 1 st each end rows 4, 11, 18 Color 6: inc 1 st each end rows 5, 12, 19 Color 7: inc 1 st each end rows 6, 13, 20 (103 st) Color 8: B.0. 3 st beg rows 11-16 (85 st) Dec 1 st each end rows 17-20 (77 st) Color 9: Dec 1 st each end rows 1, 3, 5, 7,9, 11, 14, 17, 20 (59 st) Color 10: Dec 1 st each end rows 3, 6, 9, 12, 15, 18, 21 (45 st) B.O. 6 st beg rows 22-27, B.0. rem 9 st NECKBAND ew together shoulders. Pick up 180 st around next, work 10 rows k2p2 rib, bind off. Sew sleeves to sweater, sew side and sleeve seams.
