Sun Drop

This easy raglan tee is knit seamlessly from the top down with texture and lace accents. Length is easily adjusted if you want it shorter (or longer!) No short rows, just a few stitches to pick up, and easy to memorize texture and lace stitches. Can be worn with 0 to several inches of ease as desired. Make it a cool, body skimming tee or a roomy layering piece.

Gauge
22 stitches and 28 rounds in blocked stockinette

Skills required
Long-tail cast-on
Increasing
Backwards-loop cast-on
Simple lace (yarn overs and decreases)
Picking up stitches (for sleeves at underarm)

Sizes and yardage of fingering weight yarn
XXS (30.5”/77 cm) - 660 yards/605 meters
XS (33.5”/85 cm) - 720 yards/665 meters
S (36.4”/92 cm) - 785 yards/720 meters
M1 (39.3”/100 cm) - 845 yards/775 meters
M2 (42.2”/107 cm) - 910 yards/835 meters
M3 (45.1”/115 cm) - 970 yards/890 meters
L (49.5”/126 cm) - 1065 yards/980 meters
XL (53.8”/137 cm) - 1160 yards/1065 meters
XXL (58.2”/148 cm) - 1255 yards/1150 meters
XXXL (62.5”/159 cm) - 1345 yards/1235 meters

A NOTE ABOUT GAUGE
With plant fibers it is especially difficult to get an accurate gauge measurement from a swatch. If your gauge in the round is different for knitting flat, you should swatch in the round (or with long floats) Bigger swatches are better and blocking is a must! Be aware of the tendency of these fibers to grow in your finished top.

Sample was knit in Miss Babs Damask in Goldenrod and is modeled with about 4 inches of ease.