Tensile

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Tensile

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Loft Fingering Weight

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• Product description

  Featuring eyelet linework that easily belongs near the sea, conjuring images of coastal footbridges, the wake of a ship, or sea urchin shells, Tensile is an ethereal spring layer. Worked in airy, woolen-spun Loft, this piece is one that wears next to the skin like sea foam — clouds on the sand — seemingly floating and barely there, but held together by the tensility of a thousand humble stitches.

  This garment is worked flat in pieces from the bottom up, then sewn together. The turtleneck collar is picked up and worked circularly. The eyelet motif is worked from charts only.

  Designer: Emily Greene

  Collection: Wool People 12

   

• Pattern materials

  YARN

  • 6 (6, 7, 8, 8, 9, 10) skeins Brooklyn Tweed Loft (100% American Targhee-Columbia wool; 275 yards/50 grams)
  • Photographed in color Snowbound

  
  

  YARDAGE

  • 1520 (1650, 1925, 2155, 2200, 2470, 2645) total yards of fingering weight wool yarn

  
  

  Please note: the stitch patterns in this garment are charted only.

• Pattern specs

  GAUGE

  • 24½ stitches & 31½ rows = 4″ in chart pattern with Size A needle(s), after blocking

  
  

  Note: Gauge for this project changes considerably after blocking; please block your swatch prior to measuring to ensure correct sizing.

  
  

  NEEDLES

  Size A (for Main Fabric and Collar)

  • One each 16″ and 32″ circular needles* in size needed to obtain gauge listed
  • Suggested Size: 3¼mm (US 3)

  
  

  Size B (for Hem and Collar Ribbing)

  • One each 16″ and 32″ circular needles, one size smaller than Size A
  • Suggested Size: 2¾ mm (US 2)

  
  

  Size C (for Sleeve Ribbing)

  • One pair of straight needles or a 24″ circular needle**, two sizes smaller than Size A
  • Suggested Size: 2¼ mm (US 1)

  
  

  *Shorter circular needle to be used for working collar in the round; DPNs or longer circular needle and Magic Loop technique may be used if preferred


  **Knitter’s preferred style of needle may be used

  
  

  FINISHED DIMENSIONS

  • 47 (51, 55, 59, 62½, 66½, 70½)” [119.5 (129.5, 139.5, 150, 159, 169, 179) cm] circumference at bust
  • Intended Ease: +14–16″ [35-40] cm
  • Sample shown is size 51″ [129.5 cm] with 19″ [48.5 cm] ease on model

  
  

• Techniques

  Tutorials for all special techniques listed below are included in the pattern:

  • Sloped Bind Off

  
  

• Pattern Updates

  18 February 2019: Version 1.1

  Schematic revision: There was an incorrect cm conversion on the schematic; the 3″ listed was changed to 7.5cm from 8.5cm.

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