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It is finally warm, but you still want to wear your hand knits! Salt Breeze is your go-to, easy-to-wear summer top. With a lacy bottom and lots of ease, Salt Breeze is airy and flowy without being too fussy. You can wear it with jeans, dresses, skirts and shorts!

Salt Breeze is knit in Amano Yarns Awa base. It combines alpaca, wool and cotton so the yarn is light and airy and doesn’t get too hot when you wear it.

This tee is a drop-shoulder top, with a simple lace and cable stitch pattern repeated at the bottom of the pattern. It is designed to be generously oversized.

The cable and lace pattern is both charted and written.

Construction: This tee is knit flat from the top-down starting with the back. Those stitches are placed on hold, then the front will be worked in the same manner as the back. Once these two pieces are the same length, the body is joined together and knit in the round to the lace bottom. The top of the shoulders are then seamed together. Sleeves are picked up and knit in the round to the proper length. The neckband is left raw.

Skill Level: Intermediate

Sizes: 1 (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)

To fit 30 (34, 38, 42, 46, 50, 54, 58, 62) in / 76 (86, 96.5, 106.5, 117, 127, 137, 147, 158) cm circumference at bust.

Finished Measurements
Finished bust circumference (after blocking): 37.75 (42, 46.25, 50.5, 54.5, 58.75, 67.25, 71.5, 75.5) in / 94.5 (105, 115.5, 126, 136.5, 147, 168, 178.5, 189) cm

Recommended ease: This sweater is designed with proportional ease, which means that the amount of positive ease is based on body measurements to achieve a consistent fit across sizes. It is intended to be worn oversized with 7.75-13.5 in / 19.5-34.5 cm of positive ease at the bust.

The model wears size 4 with 9.5 in / 24 cm of positive ease at the bust.

Yarn & Yardage
Weight: sport

Amount: 3 (3, 3, 3, 4, 4, 4, 5, 5) skeins or 645 (771, 902, 973, 1077, 1165, 1296, 1394, 1537) yds / 590 (705, 825, 890, 985, 1065, 1185, 1275, 1405) m / 197 (235, 275, 297, 328, 355, 395, 425, 468) g of Amano Yarn Awa in Aqua 1123 - 55% baby alpaca / 26% merino wool / 19% pima cotton (100 g = 328 yds / 300 m)

Gauge: 20 sts and 30 rows / rnds = 4 in / 10 cm in stockinette st, in the round and blocked

Needles & Notions
US 6 / 4 mm - 16 in / 40 cm circular for neck, 32 in / 80 cm to 40 in / 100 cm circular (you need two sets and possibly a dpn)
stitch marker
tapestry needle
scissors
waste yarn or stitch holders

Hope you enjoy!