Straight sweater by HandmadeHandsome

Straight sweater

Knitting
April 2018
DK (11 wpi) ?
24 stitches and 32 rows = 4 inches
in stitch pattern
US 5 - 3.75 mm
US 6 - 4.0 mm
1450 - 1499 yards (1326 - 1371 m)
size M / 38/40
Dutch English
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This sweater is easy to knit and warm to wear. It is made of 100% merino tweed yarn with an irregular texture. The design is simple: short and straight. It is knitted from the top downwards and can be lengthened easily.

The pattern has set in sleeves and the neck is added after finishing and sewing together the front and back parts. The sweater has knits, purls, twisted stitches, increases and decreases.

The size of the sweater is 38/40/M. The length of the sweater is 22.8 inch / 58 cm, the chest and rest of the sweater measures 37 inch / 94 cm. It has a turtle neck and full length sleeves.

What you need is two knitting needles number 3.75 (US 5) and four double pointed needles 4 (UD 6) and about 1460 yd / 1330 m of yarn.

The pattern is available in English and in Dutch.