Power Puff Sweater (English)
A statement garment with puff sleeve, turtleneck and a tight fit.
This pattern is in English. It is a digital pattern, and you recieve a link to a downloadable PDF file after purchase.
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Power Puff Sweater is a sweater from the design tool, hacked with a tight fit and puff sleeves.
Construction
The sweater is worked from the top down, and it is easy to adjust the length of the body and sleeves to fit your body. The sweater is seamless.
You cast on the back piece and work this back and forth in stockinette stitch, before you pick up and knit stitches for each shoulder. The shoulders are knitted separately with short rows and increases to shape the neckline opening. Then the shoulders are joined for the front piece. Afterwards, the front- and back piece is joined and the body is knitted in the round. The sleeves are worked by picking up and knitting stitches around the armholes, and are shaped with increases and short rows. The neckline ribbing is worked by picking up and knitting stitches.
Sizes
XS (S) M (L) XL (2XL) 3XL
Bust measurements
80-85 (85-90) 90-95 (95-105) 105-115 (115-125) 125-135 cm
The sweater is designed to be fitted, and we recommend choosing the size based on your bust measurements. If you are in between sizes, we recommend choosing the smaller one. The sweater pictured is knitted in a size M (bust measurement approximately 95 cm).
Bust circumference, finished garment
84 (91) 95 (100) 110 (119) 128 cm
Length
52 (52) 52 (54) 60 (64) 68 cm, measured mid back, excluding neckline ribbing
Gauge
17 x 24 stitches in stockinette stitch = 10 cm, recommended needle size 4.5 mm (yarn alternative 1) or 5.0 mm (yarn alternative 2)
Yarn
Alternative 1
7 (8) 8 (8) 10 (11) 12 skeins Filcolana Peruvian Highland Wool (50 g = 100 m) held together with 3 (4) 4 (4) 5 (5) 6 skeins Filcolana Tilia (25 g = 210 m)
Alternative 2
10 (11) 11 (12) 13 (15) 17 skeins Drops Nepal (50 g = 75 m)
Needles
Recommended needle size 4.0 and 4.5 mm (yarn alternative 1) or 4.5 and 5.0 mm (yarn alternative 2) 80 cm circular needles for the body. For the sleeves and neckline you need 40 cm circular needles in the same sizes.
Difficulty ●●○○○ (2 in 5)
Pretty easy projects with one or a few new techniques (for example short rows). Great for knitters that have knitted a project or two before.
Colorways
The orange sweater is knitted in Peruvian Highland Wool in the colorway Kumquat held together with one strand hand dyed silk mohair from Lykkegarn. The green sweater is knitted in two trends of Rauma Finull in the colorway Mint green, and the white is knitted in Peruvian Highland Wool in the colorway Snow White held together with one strand Knitting for Olive Silk mohair in the colorway Kit.
