Pente

• Product description

  An airy fabric of Loft knit on the bias creates a beautifully draping coat to wear open or smartly belted. Cleverly spaced narrow stripes emphasize the bias construction, flatter the figure, and allow for myriad color effects from subtle tone on tone to playful melding of brights, from dramatic high contrast pairings to subtly shifting gradients. Pente is knit from the bottom up with a folded hem; short rows shape the shoulders and sleeves, which are cast on at the underarm and joined along the top with an exposed bind-off to provide stability and highlight the construction.

  Designer: Carol Feller

  Collection: Wool People 7 

   

• Pattern materials

  YARDAGE

  Fingering weight wool yarn in the following approximate amounts:

  • 1200 (1350, 1480, 1620, 1780, 1950, 2050, 2380) yards Color 1 (C1)
  • 450 (510, 550, 600, 660, 720, 770, 890) yards Color 2 (C2)

  
  

  YARN

  Brooklyn Tweed Loft (100% American Targhee-Columbia wool; 275 yards/50g):

  • 5 (5, 6, 6, 7, 8, 8, 9) skeins C1 and 2 (2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 3, 4) skeins C2
  • Photographed in colors Stormcloud (C1) and Faded Quilt (C2)

  
  

• Pattern specs

  GAUGE

  • 23 stitches & 34 rows = 4″ in stockinette stitch, after blocking

  
  

  NEEDLES

  • Two 40″ circular needles in size needed to obtain gauge listed
  • Suggested Size: 3½ mm (US 4)

  
  

  FINISHED DIMENSIONS

  • 32¾ (36¼, 39, 41¾, 45¼, 48, 50¾, 57¾)” circumference at bust (with fronts overlapping to match back width)
  • Intended Ease: +2-3″
  • Sample shown is size 36¼” with +¾” ease on model

  
  

• Techniques

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

  REQUIRED TECHNIQUES

  • Provisional Cast On (Crocheted Directly onto Knitting Needle)
  • Cabled Cast On
  • Short Rows (Wrap & Turn Method)
  • Joinery Bind Off
  • Wet-Blocking

  
  

• Pattern Updates

  4 June 2014: Version 1.1

  On Page 7, the last paragraph has been edited to read:

  Sew sleeve seams. Weave in all remaining loose ends invisibly on WS of fabric (see Construction Notes)…

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