I designed Rocky Crest for my 2018 make. wear. love. fall sweater retreat collection. Each retreat, I make a mini-collection of sweaters in yarns from our vendors, loosely focused around a theme. This year, the theme was ‘nurturing’: I wanted to create winter-worthy sweaters that would envelop us in warmth and love.

Rocky Crest is worked in The Uncommon Thread’s Everyday Sweater, from our vendor Yarn Culture. Everyday Sweater is a gorgeous, soft, and super hard-wearing blend of merino and nylon; I used the color “Confetti”, a light gray with fun speckles. A lace pattern on the body of this roomy, tunic-length, drop-shoulder sweater breaks up the speckles, and solid sleeves keep the pattern from being too overwhelming. I’ve used an unusual ribbing to trim the edges and the soft, cuddly turtleneck.

The Rocky Crest Pullover is a standard-gauge, standard-size knitting pattern and available here via PDF download.