free-style knit for Sabin using two strands of Plotulopi.

I used elbow patches purchased from Miss Maude in Auckland, to protect the sleeves, as the sweater is for my friend working on her sheep farm.

The lovely sheep pattern is from a design linked above. I calculated the overall circumference of the sweater and divided it in sections, resulting in 5 sheep more generously spaced apart.

This way, Sabin can be surrounded by sheep even when she is not around sheep!

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Plotulopi - 12-3 sts / 10 cm

21 sts x 3.5 = collar;
72 sts to cast on

Back and front after separating the sleeves:
Back 64 sts
Front 62 sts

After sleeve separation, and over the next 27 rows of body, decreased twice:

15th row - decreased 2 sts on both sides of the underarm (4 sts dec in total)
7 further rows down - dec 1 sts on back side of the underarm (2 sts dec in total)

This is to adjust the st count for patt (120 sts on needles)