Melt Your Heart Sweater is a striped garter stitch sweater with a choice of neckline (crew neck or mock neck), torso length (waist, hip, or tunic), and customizable sleeve length. Melt Your Heart is great for beginners and works up in less than 15 hours for most knitters. Body and arms are knit flat; cuffs and collar are knit in the round using magic loop or DPNs.

Fit: Designed for (very) roughly 6-10”/16-25cm of positive ease at the bust. Can also be worn oversized.

Gauge: 4”/10cm in garter = 7 sts x 12 rows in garter on US19/15mm needles

Needles:
US15/10mm DNPs or long circular needles for magic loop technique to knit cuffs and collar in the round.
US19/15mm long circular needles to knit front, back, and arms flat.

Notions: Tapestry needle for weaving in ends, one stitch marker

Yarn: Super bulky (6)
Color A (main color):
375 - 700 yards/343 - 640 meters
Color B (upper body and collar):
75 - 200 yards/69 -183 meters
Color C (stripes):
30 - 125 yards/27- 115 meters

Your choice of size, length, and neckline will all influence the total yardage. Total yardage for hip length, crew neck is approximately 450 (515, 585, 650) yards/415 (470, 535, 595) meters.

Size 1: bust 39”/100cm
Size 2: bust 47”/120cm
Size 3: bust 55”/140cm
Size 4: bust 63”/160cm

Garment Lengths:
(back shoulders to bottom of garment)
Waist - 17.5”/44cm
Hip - 21.5”/55cm
Tunic - 25.5”/65cm

Photo 1: Size 1, crew neck, waist length, Loops & Threads Cozy Wool in Bark, Mushroom, and Thunder Blue
Photos 3: Size 3, mock neck, hip length, Loops & Threads Cozy Wool in Lavender Gray, Stone, and African Violet