Gardener

We named this design Gardener, as I had the idea while I was gardening.

Bringing out the seed, look after it to watch the plants and flowers grow.

The sweater is worked bottom up, starting with a seed stitch section, followed by a shoulder yoke pattern representing flowers and growing plants (cables and eyelet stripes). The sleeves are worked top down.

The sweater has a positive ease of 15-20cm/6-8in.

We chose a turtleneck but feel free to just add a shorter collar.

If you do not like seed stitch, the sweater also looks nice when you knit one round and purl one round in alternation.

Suggested yarn: Hayworth Tweed (Sirdar) or Elsebeth Lavold Silky Wool (or any other DK weight yarn with good stitch definition and meeting gauge requirement)

Gauge: 19 stitches and 38 rows = 4 inches in seed stitch

Needle size: US 6 - 4.0 mm

Sizes available: bust circumference body 91-97cm/36-38'', 101-107cm/40-42'', 111-117cm/44-46''

Positive ease: 15 - 20 cm / 6 - 8''

Yardage: 1419 (1584, 1782)m / 1552 (1733, 1949) yds