Bract

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Bract

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Loft Yarn Fingering Weight

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Loft Yarn Fingering Weight

Select a color Homemade Jam Camper Long Johns Cinnabar Embers Bale Hayloft Yellowstone Sap Foothills Artifact Birdbook Button Jar Tartan Faded Quilt Iceberg Flannel Almanac Old World Plume Blanket Fort Postcard Fossil Woodsmoke Truffle Hunt Pumpernickel Cast Iron Soot Stormcloud Sweatshirt Pumice Snowbound Newsprint Narwhal Caribou Caraway Amaranth

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Loft Yarn Fingering Weight

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• Product description

  Architectural colorplay and modest shaping in the Bract pullover pay homage to handcrafted antique armor, in which plates are laced together creating curved bands of repeating shapes. Bract features a deep yoke coupled with slender sleeves, adding drama to this sweater’s simple construction. Worked in woolen-spun Loft yarn, Bract exudes modern elegance and coziness that flatters.

  The body and sleeves are worked circularly from the bottom up and joined at the underarms. The yoke is then worked circularly up to the neck. Short Rows: Sunday Method are used to shape the upper back and back neck.

   

  Designer: Sarah Shepherd

  Collection: Wool People, Volume 13

   

• Pattern materials

  YARN

  • Brooklyn Tweed Loft (100% American Targhee-Columbia Wool; 275 yards/50 grams)
  • 7 (7, 8, 8, 9, 10, 11) skeins of Main Color (MC); 1 skein of Color 1 (C1); 1 skein of Color 2 (C2)
  • Photographed in colors Yellowstone (MC), Bale (C1), and Fossil (C2)

  
  

  YARDAGE

  • 1775 (1880, 2005, 2195, 2410, 2695, 2815) yards MC; 85 (95, 100, 105, 120, 130, 140) yards C1; 85 (95, 100, 105, 120, 130, 140) yards C2 of fingering weight wool yarn

  
  

• Pattern specs

  CONSTRUCTION

  • The body and sleeves are worked circularly from the bottom up and joined at the underarms. The yoke is then worked circularly up to the neck. Short Rows: Sunday Method are used to shape the upper back and back neck.

  
  

  FINISHED DIMENSIONS

  • 43½ (47¼, 51, 54½, 61¾, 65½, 72¾)" [111 (120, 129.5, 138.5, 157, 166, 184.5) cm] finished garment body circumference at base of colorwork
  • Sized to fit approximately 31–33 (33–35, 35–38, 38–42, 42–48, 48–54, 54–60)" [78.5–84 (84–89, 89–96.5, 96.5–106.5, 106.5–122, 122–137, 137–152.5) cm] chest
  • Sample shown in size 47¼" [120 cm] with 15½" [39.5 cm] ease on model
  • Note that this is a loose-fitting garment. The wearer’s chest will fall approximately at the base of the colorwork yoke section.

  Need help picking a size? See our resource page on Selecting a Sweater Size 101.

  
  

  GAUGE

  • 22 stitches & 34 rounds = 4" in stockinette stitch with Size A needle, after blocking
  • 22 stitches & 27 rounds = 4" in charted colorwork with Size B needle, after blocking
  • 24 stitches & 40 rounds = 4" in garter stitch with Size C needle, after blocking

  
  

  NEEDLES

  Size A (for Single-Color Stockinette Stitch)

  • One each 16", 24", and 32" circular needles and one set of double-pointed needles (DPNs) in size needed to obtain gauge listed
  • Suggested Size: 3.75 mm (US 5)

  
  

  Size B (for Charted Colorwork)

  • One each 24" and 32" circular needles, in size needed to obtain gauge listed
  • Suggested Size: 4.5 mm (US 7)

  
  

  Size C (for Garter Stitch)

  • One each 16" and 32" circular needles and one set of double-pointed needles (DPNs), in size needed to obtain gauge listed
  • Suggested Size: 3 mm (US 2½)

  
  

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

• Techniques

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

  • Speed-Swatching for Circular Knitting
  • Color Dominance
  • Short Rows: Sunday Method
  • Kitchener Stitch (Grafting)

  
  

• Pattern Updates

  19 February 2020: Version 2.0

  On the pattern's Schematic, adjustments have been made to the yoke depths for the two largest sizes.

  On page 10, after the Decrease Round below "Work Chart," the number of rounds to work even has been updated to "Work 0 (1, 3, 8, 17, 22, 26) round(s) even."

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