I am retiring from knit design due to progressive arthritis. Although I will no longer provide pattern support to my patterns that are now free, my patterns are edited and most have been test knit.

My final project for the TGKA Master Hand Knitting Program is a modern Aran design with a Celtic flair. This bottom-up pullover sweater, in Sally Melville’s attractive “balance point” length, is worked flat and features horizontal braided bands around the bottom of the body and the set-in sleeves. The bands, edged in slipped stitches, are worked first then stitches picked up to continue knitting the body and sleeves. Stitches picked up around the wide portrait neck are worked with Lily Chin’s join-as-you-go technique (full instructions and tutorial link included) and finished with a single braid with a slipped stitch edge, framing the face.

The more complicated charts are NOT accompanied by equivalent written directions.

Chest 38 42, 46”/97 107,117 cm
Length 21.75 22, 22.25”/55 56, 57 cm
Sleeve from underarm 17”/43 cm

Approximately 1530 1700, 1800 yds of worsted-weight yarn

In either of the featured yarns: 7 8, 9 skeins