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Introducing Floatside, a breezy, spirited stash-busting top that captivates with its side-to-side knit from sleeve to sleeve, featuring an invigorating scoop neck collar, enchanting “Floatside” colorwork framed by an exquisite Latvian Braid detail, and topped off with a sleek i-cord hem and neckline.

Floatside is a one-of-a-kind, fingering-weight short-sleeved top boasting a clever construction for a virtually seamless garment, requiring just a touch of mattress stitch at the shoulder. With its effortless ease and graceful drape, this charming spring top is the ultimate opportunity to showcase your colorwork skills and make the most of your yarn stash!

The hem and collar of Floatside are elegantly finished with a knit-on i-cord, resulting in refined lines, impressive drape, and cleverly concealing colorwork ends—eliminating the need to weave them in. The straightforward colorwork, knit flat without purling or float catches, demands only a minimal amount of each contrast color.

Explore the delightful and unique construction of Floatside through a concise video on our website.

Unleash your creativity and bust your stash!

Floatside highlights the silky, smooth Silk Road fingering weight yarn by Skein yarn in the charming Saffron shade. Any fingering weight yarn containing some wool is a perfect match!

The luxurious silk, yak, and merino blend offers a stunning drape and exceptional stitch definition. A 100% merino, linen/wool blend, or other blended wool fingering weight sock yarn or single ply would also be an excellent choice for Floatside.

For the contrast colors, we used an eclectic mix of indie-dyed scrap yarns by Hue Loco & Dragon Hoard Yarn. Feel free to unleash your creativity and experiment with fibers and yarns for your Floatside masterpiece! Any fingering weight scrap yarns will beautifully accentuate Floatside’s distinct colorwork motif.

Yarn:
Ontheround Plush Singles in Hemlock (blue sample)

Skein Yarn Silk Road Fingering- 60% Superwash Merino, 20% silk 20% yak in Saffron (orange sample)

400yards - 365m/100g

MC 540 (620, 740, 800, 880, 980, 1100, 1200, 1280, 1400) yards

495 (567, 678, 732, 805, 896, 1006, 1097, 1170, 1280) meters

You will need 5 (5, 6, 6, 6, 6, 7, 7, 7, 8) contrast colors. One of these will be used for the Latvian braid, the rest for the Floatside motif.

CC 15 (15, 15, 15, 20, 20, 20, 20, 24, 24) yards each

14 (14, 14, 14, 18, 18, 18, 18, 22, 22) meters each

Sizing: We recommend 5-10” positive ease, this means you should knit a size which measures 5” - 10” larger than your actual bust size, for example, if bust is 40” measured at widest point, knit the size 48” for 8” of positive ease.

orange sample is shown with 8” ease on a 32” bust, blue sample is shown with 6” ease on a 47” bust

Finished Measurements (see our website for full schematic)

A) Bust: 32 (36, 40, 44, 48, 52, 56, 60, 64, 68)“
81 (91, 102, 112, 122, 132, 142, 152, 162, 173)cm
B) Bicep: 11 (12.5, 13.5, 15, 17, 18.5, 21, 22, 23, 24.5)”
28 (32, 34, 38, 43, 47, 53, 56, 58, 62)cm

Needles & Gauge:

US 5 (3.75mm)
US 4 (3.50mm)

Measure your gauge swatch after it has been wet blocked and pinned, wait until fully dry to measure.

Due to the side to side construction ROW gauge is very important for proper width.

24 sts x 28 rows in US 5 stockinette knit flat and in the round = 4” x 4”

28 sts x 30 rows in US 4 stranded colorwork stockinette knit in the round = 4” x 4”

Video Tutorials: Floatside includes many video tutorials to help guide you through special techniques featured in the pattern such as:

Construction Overview
Choosing Colors
Latvian Braid
Stranded colorwork (English & Continental)
Securing Ends of Colorwork
Icord Finishing

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