Smocket
A comfortable smock-style pullover with a useful pocket worked in textured twisted stitches.

Yarn
Kate Davies Designs Ooskit (100% British wool; 220m/240yds per 100g skein)
Choffer: 6 (7, 8) skeins
Check sizing table for garment dimensions. If you wish to add length to body or sleeves, you may need an extra skein of yarn.

Needles and Notions
Gauge-size and below gauge-size circular needles of appropriate lengths for working body, yoke, and neckline
Spare gauge-size needle for working the three needle bind off
Gauge-size and below gauge-size needle(s) of your preferred type for working small circumferences
Stitch markers of two types, x and y
Waste yarn for holding stitches
Tapestry needle

Gauge
22 sts and 30 rounds to 10cm / 4in over stockinette (in the round and back and forth) using gauge-size needle. Use 3.75mm needle as a starting point for swatching.

If your gauge has a tendency to draw in over small circumferences, you may need to go up a needle size for sleeves.

Sizes
Finished chest circumference: 143 (165, 187.5) cm / 56¼ (65, 73¾) in

Select the size above your actual chest measurement with 30.5-51cm / 12-20in positive ease.
This is an intentionally oversized pullover, designed to fit with positive ease around the body with a closer fit around the shoulders and sleeves.

Shown in the first size

Pattern notes
This comfortable smock-style pullover is worked in the round from the bottom up. After casting on provisionally with waste yarn, the body is worked in the round, shaped with increases to accommodate the modified dropped sleeve construction and, after dividing for the underarms, the front and back are worked separately back and forth. The back scye is worked longer than the front (to raise the fit around the neck and shoulders) and the shoulder slopes are shaped with a series of short rows. After the shoulders are joined with a three needle bind off, stitches are picked up around the armscyes to work each sleeve from the top down. The neck is completed with twisted rib, and a twisted stitch panel is then worked to the full width of the front. After picking up and connecting the bottom edge of the panel to the pullover hem (with a modified three needle / icord bind off), the sides and centre of the panel are stitched in place to create a secure and useful pocket.