Lacy Worsted/Aran Weight Bolero by Camy Tang

Lacy Worsted/Aran Weight Bolero

Knitting
April 2014
Aran (8 wpi) ?
4 stitches = 1 inch
in K2 P2 ribbing
US 9 - 5.5 mm
250 - 300 yards (229 - 274 m)
One
English
This pattern is available for free.

I based this pattern off of the construction of the Anthropologie-Inspired Capelet pattern by Julia Allen.

This is a good pattern to use if you have between 250-300 yards of a worsted/Aran weight yarn, or between 150-200 yards of a worsted/Aran weight yarn and about 90-100 yards of another yarn to use for the ribbing and edging. I think this might look really good with a contrasting color for the ribbing.

The yarns I used were a wool worsted/Aran weight for the body and an Aran weight yarn for the ribbing. I used about 164 yards of worsted weight yarn and 86 yards of Aran weight.

This stretches a lot, and it was made to fit me at a 38” bust, 13.5” upper arm circumference.
Unstretched, the measurements are:
Back: 12.5” wide
Front panels: each 5.5” wide
Arm: 10” circumference
Length from neck to bottom ribbing: 11”
(Unstretched, the lace pattern is all bunched up.)
You can increase or decrease the size by changing the number of pattern repeats in each section.

Needle: US 9 (5.5 mm)
Gauge: Honestly, this stitch pattern is super stretchy so I couldn’t get a consistent gauge number. In the Aran weight yarn, k2 p2 ribbing was 4 stitches per inch.