Comprehensive Knitting Guide: Stylish Sweater with Mélange Mondial Boreale Yarn

You’ll Need:

800g of mélange Mondial Boreale yarn (18% wool, 46% acryl, 36% polyamide; 55m/50g);

Knitting needles 5.5.

Size:

S.

Used Patterns:

Double Rib:

Cast on half of the needed stitches:

1^st row: with working yarn * 1 knit st, 1 yarn over*; repeat from * to *;

2^nd row: * yarn over as knit st, slip 1 purl without knitting, yarn in front of work*; repeat from * to *;

3^rd and the last row: * 1 knit st, slip 1 purl, yarn in front of work*; repeat from * to *, take off the contrast yarn.

1 x 1 Rib:

Stockinette Stitch:

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

Wrong-Side Pattern:

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

Central Motif:

(25 sts): due to the scheme.

Stitches Control:

Stockinette stitch: 13 sts x 19 rows = 10 x 10 cm;

Stockinette stitch and 1 x 1 rib: 14 sts x 19 rows = 10 x 10 cm.

Instructions:

Back/Front:

Cast on 69 sts and make 4 rows of double rib and 36 rows of 1 x 1 rib. Then, work with pattern order according to the scheme, in 15 cm from rib, increase 2 x 1 st after the first 6 sts and before the last 6 sts in every 2^nd row from both sides. In 18 cm from rib, decrease 2 x 1 st after the first 6 sts and before the last 6 sts in every 4^th row from both sides; in 31 cm from rib, decrease 2 x 1 st after the first 6 sts and before the last 6 sts in every 2^nd row from both sides. In 39 cm from rib, decrease 7 x 2 sts after the first 6 sts and before the last 6 sts in every 2^nd row from both sides, make 2 rows, and decrease 1 x 1 st. In 8 cm from the beginning of shoulder chamfers, leave the remaining 35 sts open for the neck-hole.

Assembly:

Make one shoulder seam and the upper part of side seam (on 16 cm from the open sts). For the collar, cast on open sts and work with 1 x 1 rib, increasing 1 x 5 sts in the 1^st row. In 21 cm, make 4 rows of double rib and bind off all the sts. Make the collar seam. Make lower parts of side seams to a height of 36 cm from the setup row to 23 cm from both sides.