Winter Sailor Sweater (short)

You can’t go wrong with stripes! A basic, quick knitted top-down sweater.

Construction
Worked top-down.

Sizes
1 (2-3) 4-5 (6) 8 (10) 12 y

Yarn
Pickles Tweedy
Main colour: 200 (200) 300 (300) 300 (400) 400 g
Stripe colour: 100 g for all sizes

Needles
16” and 24” or 32” circular and DP needles US 7 and 9 |
40 and 60/80 cm circular and DP needles 4,5 mm and 5,5 mm

Gauge per 4” | 10 cm
15 s / 22 rows

Measurements, lying flat
Chest width: 11.4 (12.6) 14.2 (15.4) 16.1 (17.3) 18.1 “ | 29 (32) 36 (39) 41 (44) 46 cm
Length: 13 (15) 16.5 (18.1) 18.9 (20.1) 20.9 “ | 33 (38) 42 (46) 48 (51) 53 cm

Choice of yarns
Pickles Tweedy | 160 m / 175 yds / 100 g
A robust and beautiful yarn with specks in different colours.

Other options:
Rauma Vams | 80 m / 87 yds / 50 g
Hillesvåg Troll | 114 m / 124 y / 100 g
Hillesvåg Blåne | 114 m / 124 y / 100 g
Brooklyn Tweed Quarry | 182 m / 200 yards / 100 g
Isager Aran Tweed | 160 m | 174 y / 100 g

Pickles Soft Fuzz | 195 m / 213 y / 50 g
A fluffy and ultra-yielding yarn that is just as beautiful used as a second strand as it is on its own.

Other options:
- Rauma Alpakka Lin | 175 g / 191 yds / 50 g
- Drops Brushed Alpaca Silk  | 140 m/ 153 yds / 25 g

Skill level
elementary | easy | experienced | expert