Slipping Down Pullover

I played around with this slip stitch pattern for quite awhile, wanting something playful and warm without being too heavy. It took me a while to find the right garment for this slip stitch pattern, and in the end, I found two.

Slipping Down is a top-down circular yoke pullover featuring a slip stitch pattern. Its companion pattern is Slipping Up, a bottom-up vest.

Slipping Down is worked top-down and in the round and is designed for a cropped body length. A set of short rows shape the neckline in stockinette before the slip stitch pattern is started. The yoke is divided into body and sleeve at the underarm, with the sleeve stitches put on hold to be worked later. The body is worked in the round from the underarm to the hem. The sleeves are taken off of hold, and worked in the round from the underarm to the cuff.

The colourwork is accomplished through a slip-stitch pattern worked in 5 colours. The slip stitch pattern provides a lot of colour and texture, so the garment’s shape needs to be simple and respond to the density of the fabric. There is a 3” gap between sizes to give better fit options.

Sizing

Sizes 1 (2, 3, 4, 5, 6) (7, 8, 9, 10, 11)

Finished Measurements (Bust)

32 (35.25, 38.5, 41, 44, 47.25) (50, 53, 56.25, 59.5, 62)”, OR

80 (88, 96, 102.5, 110.5, 118.5) (125, 133, 141, 149, 155) cm

Recommended Ease 1 - 4” (2.5 - 10 cm)

The garment is shown in Size 3 with 2.5” (6 cm) ease.

Gauge

On US Size 5 (3.75 mm) needles, after blocking:

25 sts/ 52 rows in 4” (10cm) in the Slip Stitch Pattern

Yarn

Brooklyn Tweed Loft, heavy fingering weight, 100% wool, 275 yds (251 meters) per 50 gram skein, OR

Any sport weight wool that knits to gauge.

Main Colour (MC) Yarn

Yards: 454 (500, 534, 557, 595, 626) (684, 718, 768, 808, 857), OR

Meters: 415 (457, 490, 509, 544, 572) (625, 657, 703, 740, 784)

Contrast Colours C1, C2, C3, & C4

Yards: 251 (283, 303, 315, 338, 356) (402, 423, 459, 486, 522), OR

Meters: 229 (259, 278, 288, 309, 325) (367, 387, 420, 445, 477)

in each contrast yarn.

MC shown in Tartan. C1, C2, C3, & C4 shown in Tent, Almanac, Iceberg, and Hayloft.

Techniques Used

Alternating Cable Cast-on

German Short Rows

Jeny’s Surprisingly Stretchy Bind-off

Working in the Round

Slipped stitches