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, Volume 7
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Pente
Striped Drape-front Cardigan
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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, Volume 7
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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)
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Pattern specs
CONSTRUCTION
- The body is worked in one piece to the underarms. The fronts and back are then worked separately to the shoulders, with stitches cast on for the dolman sleeves (worked concurrently with each body section). The sleeves and shoulders are shaped using short rows. The shoulder and top of sleeve seams are joined together with the right sides facing out so that the seam is exposed using Joinery Bind Off.
FINISHED DIMENSIONS
- 32¾ (36¼, 39, 41¾, 45¼, 48, 50¾, 57¾)” circumference at chest (with fronts overlapping to match back width)
- Sample shown is size 36¼” with +¾” ease on model
Need help picking a size? See our resource page on Selecting a Sweater Size 101.
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)
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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
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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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