You can’t go wrong with stripes! A basic, quick knitted top-down sweater.

Construction
Worked top-down.

Sizes
1 (2-3) 4-5 (6) 8 (10-12) y

Yarn
Pickles Tweedy
Main colour: 200 (300) 300 (400) 400 (500) g
Contrast colour: 100 g in all sizes

Needles
40 cm and 60 cm or 80 cm (80 cm from 8 y) and DP needles size 4.5 mm and 5.5 mm (US 7
and 9)

Gauge per 10 cm (4”)
Stockinette: 15 sts / 22 rows

Measurements, lying flat
Chest width: 29 (32) 35 (37) 40 (43) cm | 11.4 (12.6) 13.8 (14.6) 15.7 (16.9)”
Full length: 36 (40) 46 (52) 56 (62) cm | 14.2 (15.7) 18 (20.5) 22 (24.4)”

Choice of yarns
Pickles Tweedy | 160 m / 175 yds / 100 g
A robust and beautiful yarn with specks in different colours.

Other options:
Rauma Vams | 80 m / 87 yds / 50 g
Hillesvåg Troll | 114 m / 124 y / 100 g
Hillesvåg Blåne | 114 m / 124 y / 100 g
Brooklyn Tweed Quarry | 182 m / 200 yards / 100 g
Isager Aran Tweed | 160 m | 174 y / 100 g

Pickles Soft Fuzz | 195 m / 213 y / 50 g
A fluffy and ultra-yielding yarn that is just as beautiful used as a second strand as it is on its own.

Other options:

• Rauma Alpakka Lin | 175 g / 191 yds / 50 g
• Drops Brushed Alpaca Silk | 140 m/ 153 yds / 25 g

Skill level
elementary | easy | experienced | expert