Meet your new favourite sweater. Deeply textured cables and a swingy, slightly cropped shape that you’ll love layering over… just about everything, whether it’s pjs on long weekend mornings, or a maxi-dress or dramatic trousers when you finally decide to get dressed.
Abbeyhill is worked from the bottom up, seamlessly, with a fun cable pattern followed by plenty of soothing stockinette. The spoke yoke is borrowed from a beloved ready to wear sweater, and features feathered decreases for a subtle design detail, that’s also intuitive to knit and sits just-right around your shoulders.
This is a printed pattern and comes with a download code as well.
Skills for knitting this project
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- knitting, purling
- casting on
- cabling (using a chart or written directions)
Optional Techniques
Gauge
22 sts & 28 rounds = 4” /10 cm in st st in the round on larger needles
Supplies
Yarn
Sport weight yarn with good elasticity, wool or wool blends are ideal.
Shown in Tukuwool Sock (80% Finnish wool, 20% nylon, 175 yds / 160m, 50g).
Needles and notions
Needle A: US 6 / 4mm 24” / 60cm or longer circular needle.
Needle B: US 6 / 4mm dpns or circular(s) for your preferred method of knitting small circumferences in the rnd.
Needle C: US 4 / 3.5mm dpns or circular(s) for your preferred method of knitting small circumferences in the rnd.
1[2, 3, 4, 5] (6, 7, 8, 9) [10, 11, 12] 34½[38, 41½, 45, 48¼] (51¾, 55¼, 58¾, 62¼) [65¾, 69, 72½]” / 86.5[95, 103.5, 112.5, 121] (129.5, 138, 147, 155.5) [164, 172.5, 181.5]cm finished chest circumference.
Shown in size 3 with 7” / 17.5cm of positive ease. Shown in size 5 with 5” / 12.5cm of positive ease. Refer to schematic for full garment measurements. Choose a size with between 4” / 10cm and 8” / 20cm of positive ease at the chest.