Alpine style knitting, also called Austrian or Bavarian Twisted-Stitch knitting, has fascinated me since I first encountered it in Level 3 of TKGA’s Master Hand Knitting program. It differs from Aran style cables in a few ways: Most of the designs work crossovers involving only one or two stitches over one or two stitches and no wider. The knit stitches are almost always twisted, which makes them stand out against the purl backgrounds. And crossovers usually occur on every row, not just every other row. It is this final difference that makes working flat challenging because wrong-side crossovers are more difficult to work correctly. In fact, my love of Alpine patterns was the original motivation for developing the Phrancko Sweater construction, which is knit almost entirely in the round. This construction makes it easier to create set-in sleeve sweaters with Alpine-style patterns. The only parts of this sweater that are worked flat are the shoulders on the sides of the neck, but I used a ribbed pattern in that area, to make it easy to work on both sides. However, I couldn’t resist the desire to have one pattern travel up the sleeves and across the shoulders to the neck.