Covered Bridge Sweaterscapes
The bridge over the Ossipee River in Porter, Maine, no longer carries cars, but we like to float lazily beneath it on tubes on a hot summer day. An Intarsia Landscape Sweater desi gn by Lynne & Douglas Barr
Copyright ©2009 Lynne & Doug las Barr e-mail: [email protected] www.sweaterscapes.com Instructions
Finished Sweater Measurements Knit rows on chart: Chest: 38 (41,44) inches small 13-172 medium 7-176 large 1-180 Length: 25 (27,29) inches Begin neck shaping on row 144. We recommend using short-row wrapping for the neck Equipment opening. It eliminates the seam between sweater and #5 and #7 needles (or size needed to obtain gauge) neck rib and produces a neck opening with the proper Row Counter stretch. Bobbins Illustrated instructions can be viewed at www.sweaterscapes.com. Materials Green Mountain Spinnery yarns, 4 ounces/250 yard Sweater Back skeins Using Champlain Blue yarn and size 7 needle, cast on 15(16,17) oz Ivy 94(98,106) stitches. Change to size 5 needles, and rib 6 oz Champlain Blue in K2, P2 pattern for 2 inches. Increase 2(0,2) stitches 4 oz Forget-me-not after rib. 4 oz Aquamarine Change to size 7 needles and follow sweater chart for 4 oz Blue Spruce the back. 1 oz Natural Grey Knit stitches on chart: 1 oz Autumn Oak small 7-100 medium 4-103 large 1-106 1 oz Indigo Knit rows on chart: 1 oz Potpourri small 13-172 medium 7-176 large 1-180 1 oz Purple Aster
Gauge Finishing Stockinette Stitch: Using size 7 needles (or size needed to obtain gauge): 19 sts by 27 rows will make a 4 inch Weave in the ends from the intarsia knitting. square. Block sweater pieces before assembling and knitting the neck rib. All you need is a wet, lightweight cotton Knitting Intarsia dishtowel (it should be neither dripping nor wrung out This pattern is knit by the intarsia method. Unlike Fair to the point that it’s almost dry), a hard surface with a Isle or Jacquard knits, whose repeating color changes bath towel laid out flat on it, and a steam iron set to require strands of yarn to be carried across the wrong “wool”. Lay the knitting piece on the towel, cover it side of the sweater, in intarsia the blocks of color are with the wet dishtowel, and press it lightly with the worked with separate balls or bobbins of yarn, iron. Voilá – it’s blocked. If you have been careful producing a sweater only one layer thick. about testing your gauge, you should not have to pin, If you are knitting intarsia for the first time, we stretch, or reshape the sweater in order to fit the suggest that you visit our website, desired measurement . www.sweaterscapes.com, where you will find The Neck Rib complete illustrated instructions. Work neck using Forget-me-not yarn.
If your shoulder stitches are still on needles, bind off Sweater Front the front and back stitches together at the right Using Champlain Blue yarn and size 7 needle, cast on shoulder. Otherwise, sew the right sweater shoulder. 94(98,106) stitches. Change to size 5 needles, and rib If traditional bind-off method was used for neck in K2, P2 pattern for 2 inches. Increase 2(0,2) stitches shaping - pick up 90(98,106) stitches around the neck after rib. opening. Change to size 7 needles and follow sweater chart for If short-row wrapping was used for neck the front. shaping - with sweater front facing you, pick up Knit stitches on chart: 13(15,17) stitches at right front edge. Knit front neck small 7-100 medium 4-103 large 1-106 stitches on the needle from short-row wrapping, hiding the wraps as you knit. Pick-up 13(15,17) stitches and continue knitting stitches on neck back. You should Rib in K2, P2 pattern using size 5 needles for 1½ have 90(98,106) stitches on your needle for the neck inches. Bind off. rib. Finishing the Sweater If you have circular size 5 needles, you may choose to If you knit the neck rib on straight needles, sew left knit the neck rib in the round. If so, first attach shoulder, or bind off shoulders together. Attach sweater front and back at left shoulder. sleeves. Sew side and sleeve seams.
Sleeves
Using a piece of yarn, mark center of sleeve on the bind-off row. Large - 92 sts (20 inches) Medium - 88 sts (19 inches) 110 Small - 84 sts (18 inches) 105 100 95 90 85 80 75 Large 70 21 inches 65 Increase 60 Rows Medium 55 20 inches 50 45 Small 40 19 inches 35 30 Increase 1 stitch 25 each side, 2 sts in from edge. 20 Work increases 15 every 5th row. After rib, increase 6 sts 10 evenly spaced across, then change to size 7 needle. 5
Rib: K2, P2 for 1.5 inches
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