Experience ultimate comfort and elegance with Sappho’s Love, a lightweight tee that delicately drapes over your body like a cloud. Its scoop neckline, rolled edges, and fitted sleeves make it ideal for layering over your swimsuit at the beach or underneath a jacket on chilly days. Versatile and sophisticated, this classic long-sleeve tee can also be knit with short sleeves or as a shell tank.

CONSTRUCTION

Sappho’s Love is a set-in sleeve tee worked seamlessly from the top down both flat and in the round.

Optional bust shaping

Optional instructions for adding short rows for bust shaping, in four sizes, give you your best fit.

SIZES

1 (2, 3, 4) (5, 6, 7) (8, 9, 10)

Finished full bust circumference: 32.25 (36, 40, 44) (47.75, 52.25, 56) (60, 64, 67.75) inches / 80.5 (90, 100, 110) (119.5, 130.5, 140) (150, 160, 169.5) cm

Download the full schematic here.

Your best fit

Choose the size closest to your actual upper bust measurement: 29.75 (33.75, 37.75, 40.75) (43.25, 46, 49) (52, 55, 58) inches / 75.5 (85.5, 96, 103.5) (110, 117, 124.5) (132, 139.5, 147.5) cm

Upper chest is measured above the full bust, at an angle close to diagonal beneath the underarms, and straight across the back.

Sappho’s Love is designed to fit with approximately 2 inches / 5 cm of positive ease at the fullest part of your bust.

If you need additional room for the bust, working the optional short row shaping will give you the best fit in the shoulders and armholes, while still making room for your chest. Short rows add length to the front only of the garment, so that the hem does not rise in the front.

Bess is wearing size 3, cup 1, with 4 inches / 10 cm of positive ease at the full bust and 1 inch / 2.5 cm of positive ease at the upper arm. Her upper chest is 34.5 inches / 87.5 cm and she is 5’ 3” / 160 cm tall.

YARN

Sample shown in The Fibre Co. Meadow

40% Wool / 25% llama / 20% silk / 15% linen; 545 yds / 498 m per 100 g skein. This is a hand-dyed, multi-ply, textured yarn with lots of grip. Shown in colorway Bluebonnet.

This is a heavy laceweight yarn that feels like a super soft wool / silk or alpaca blend. Its fabric has a lot of drape with a little sheen. The unique texture of the linen and wool fibers in this yarn gives it much more grip than many similar blends.

1040 (1155, 1280, 1410) 1530, 1675, 1815095, 2215) yds / 950 (1055, 1170, 1290) 1400, 1530, 1660915, 2025) m; 2 (3, 3, 3) 3, 4, 4, 5) skeins

For optional bust darts, you will need an additional 15 - 115 yds / 15 - 105 m.

GAUGE

28 sts and 41 rows in 5 inches / 12.5 cm worked both flat and in the round in stockinette stitch with size A needles after blocking.

Note: this is a non-standard gauge listing.

NEEDLES

• US 6 / 4mm

NOTIONS

• Waste yarn (for the optional Tubular Cast-on)
• Tapestry needle
• 4 stitch markers and 2 removable stitch markers

TECHNIQUES

• Casting on with cable cast-on
• Working directional shaping
• Working German Short Rows
• Working a Sloped Bind-off (optional)
• Garter Stitch Selvedge
• Picking up and knitting
• Binding off

Tech Edit: Jen Hurley
Photography: Source Creative House

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