Detailed Instructions for Knitting a Sportic Sweater

You’ll Need

600g of beige Sportic yarn (70% polyacryl, 30% wool; 75m/50g);

Long circular knitting needles 6.

Size

Used Patterns

Stockinette Stitch

In RS row – knit sts, in WS row – purls;

Wrong-Side Pattern

In RS row – purls, in WS row – knit sts;

Big Pearled Pattern

1^st row: 1 knit st, 1 purl by turn;

2^nd and 4^th rows: due to the pattern;

3^rd row: 1 purl, 1 knit st by turn.

Repeat 1^st-4^th rows.

Cross-Over Pattern

2 rows of stockinette stitch, 2 rows of wrong-side pattern by turn.

Relief Motif (18 sts wide)

Due to the scheme, on which only RS rows are stated, make WS rows due to the pattern or as stated, yarn overs – as purls. Repeat 1^st-34^th rows x once.

Pattern Order A (18 sts wide)

34 rows of big pearled pattern, 34 rows of relief motif, 34 rows of big pearled pattern, 34 rows of relief motif, 34 rows of cross-over pattern.

Pattern Order B (18 sts wide)

34 rows of relief motif, 34 rows of cross-over pattern, 34 rows of relief motif, 34 rows of cross-over pattern, 34 rows of big pearled pattern.

Pattern Order C (18 sts wide)

34 rows of relief motif, 34 rows of cross-over pattern, 34 rows of relief motif, 34 rows of cross-over pattern, 34 rows of big pearled pattern.

Stitches Control

14 sts x 26 rows = 10 x 10 cm.

Instructions

Front/Back

Cast on 92 sts and work in the following way: 1 selvage st, 18 sts of pattern order A, B, C, A and C, 1 selvage st. In 39.5 cm = 102 rows from the set-up row, bind off 36 sts from the left side for V-shape neck-hole. In 65.5 cm = 170 rows from the set-up row, bind off all the sts.

Assembly

Make shoulder seams; cast on 154 sts along the neck-hole line and work with cross-over pattern. At first, make 2 circle rows of wrong-side pattern and make 3 sts together as broaching (slip knit2tog, 1 knit st, draw it through the slipped sts) in the center of front and back in every wrong-side pattern row and every circle row. At 4 cm height of the placket = 10 circle rows, bind off the rest 114 sts as knit sts.