Coral is the first of a series of summer tops I’ve designed to celebrate our beautiful sunny country and stunning South African hand dyed yarns.

A summer tank with cross-over straps, Coral is knitted with a side-ways construction for a stunning seamless finish. It has a loose gauge in fingering or sport weight yarn for a comfy, draped summer top, which also has some nice structure in the places that really matter. This little beauty knits up really fast and has plenty of challenges to offer the adventurous beginner to advanced knitter – Provisional cast on, Kitchener stitch (tutorials provided), adventurous topsy-turvy construction and insertion of a vertical panel between horizontal live stitches with detailed descriptions and diagrams.

Recommended yarn: Wishbone Gloss Singles or any other fingering or sport weight yarn with good drape and resilience to stretching.

Meterage: 320 (370, 410, 450, 495, 540, 600, 650, 700)
Yardage: 350 (405, 450, 495, 540, 590, 660, 710, 770)

Sizes: 1 (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
Finished sizes: Bust: 70 (77, 84, 90, 98.5, 105, 114, 122, 130.5) cm / 27.25 (30.25, 33, 35.5, 38.75, 41.25, 44.75, 48, 51.25) inches.

Recommended ease: 5cm - 10cm / 2” - 4” negative ease

Coral’s size and shape can be adjusted to suit you, or just let the fabric mold itself to your body shape.

Modelled with 3 cm / 1” negative ease

Gauge: 20 sts/33 rows = 10cm in Stockinette Stitch with larger needle after blocking vigorously - Important: See instructions for swatching in pattern.

What you need:

Larger needles (all main knitted sections): 4.5mm circular needles, or size needed to obtain gauge
Smaller needles (end of FRONT CENTRAL PANEL and crochet provisional cast on): 2 x 4mm needles (circular)
4.5mm crochet hook
Scrap Yarn (SY) colours 1 (SY1), 2 (SY2) and 3 (SY3)
Stitch markers
Darning needle