For your leisurely moments, whether it’s weekends with family or evenings spent with friends, this essential sweater is an ideal selection.
Featuring a slightly cropped cut and wide balloon sleeves, its contemporary design is paired with a warm and soft yarn, resulting in a stylish piece that ensures you feel both comfortable and up-to-date in any occasion.

Language of the patter: English

Level: upper beginner

Sizes:
(xs, s) m (l, xl)
Our sample is in size m. You will find this size outside the brackets.

Measurements:
Finished chest: (86.7, 90.0) 93.3 (100.0, 106.7) cm / (34.1, 35.4) 36.7 (39.4, 42.0) in.
Finished length (at centre back): (48.0, 50.2) 52.4 (54.5, 56.7) cm / (18.9, 19.8) 20.6 (21.5, 22.3) in.
Note: pick a finished size that offers 2 - 5 cm / 0.8 - 2.0 in of positive ease.

Yarn requirements:
Approx. (492, 542) 588 (653, 716) mt / (540, 595) 645 (714, 783) yds of bulky weight yarn.
Note: if you would like to modify body and sleeves length, you will need to increase or decrease the amount of yarn.

Suggested Yarn:
Approx. (550, 610) 653 (725, 796 ) gr of Drops Garnstudio Andes (gr 100 / 90 mt).

Needles:

• Short tip circular needles in size 7 mm for neckline and sleeves hems with 16” (40 cm) cable, using magic loop method. Alternatively, you can use double pointed needles.
• 32” (80 cm) or 40” (100 cm) circular needles in size 8 mm for body and sleeves (from armpit to wrist).
• 32” (80 cm) or 40” (100 cm) circular needles in size 7 for body ribbing.

Gauge:
12 sts and 17 rows to 4”/10 cm on 8 mm needles in stockinette stitch knit in the round.
Note: it is always important to make a small gauge swatch with the yarn you have chosen. Check that, with the same number of stitches and rows, your gauge matches ours. If not, try to increase or decrease the tension while working or, even, to change the needles size.

You should be familiar with these techniques:
Casting on
Knitting
Purling
Joying in the round
Increasing: yo
Decreasing: k2tog
Adding underarm stitches
Picking up stitches
Binding off

Our Easy Sunday Pullover is knitted top down on circular needles.
Starting from neckline, after a few rounds in rib stitch, increases are made with basic yarn over stitches along raglan seams working in the round until we achieve the desired width. Then we divide stitches and put sleeves stitches on hold. We continue working the body in stockinette stitch in the round to the desired length. No short rows are used in this pattern.
At this point we transfer sleeve stitches back to the needle and work them in the round up to the wrist. Then we decrease stitches by knitting two together across one entire needle and finally we frame the hems with ribbing.

In case of doubt, I am more than happy to answer any questions or resolve any concerns you might have.

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