The ‘Joy’ sweater is designed to be a great beginner knit, a simple sweater, knitted in garter stitch, whilst leaving lots of room for your own creativity.

It is knitted flat, in 4 pieces, with the neckline added at the end, just before stitching up.
You could knit it in one colour for ease, use a funky self striping yarn or use this pattern to gobble up all your yarn scraps.

There is no pattern for the colour changing, so just go wild! Experiment with a little strip testing how colour changes look before you start, or not, just go for it

Sizing (approximate)

XS (S, M, L, XL, XXL)

You can choose to make it cropped or full length.

XS - UK 8/10, chest 62cm, length 49/62cm

S - UK 10/12, chest 67cm, length 49/62cm

M - UK 12/14, chest 72cm, length 52/65cm

L - UK 14/16, chest 77cm, length 52/65cm

XL - UK 16/18 chest 82cm, length 55/68cm

XXL - UK 18/20 chest 87cm, length 58/71cm

This jumper is designed to have an oversized fit and you can choose to make it cropped or longer length, see above the length for your size and follow the pattern for cropped or the longer length.

Yarn
Any chunky yarn to fit the gauge!
Pictured is Paintbox Chunky
Approximately 600 (700, 800, 900, 1000, 1100) grams.
Alternatively you can use 1 strand of worsted weight yarn, held along with 1 strand of DK yarn, just remember to check your tension to achieve correct size.

Needle size 6.5mm

Tension
14 stitches 14 rows = 10 x 10 cm - please check and adjust needle size accordingly