If you've been dreaming of a soft, airy and voluminous sweater, this pattern is for you. This model assumes wide lantern sleeves, which may not fit under a coat, but will look very beautiful and romantic without outerwear or with a vest
About the sweater:
• it’s a top-down raglan sweater. It’s very comfortable and easy to knit because you don’t need to knit its parts separately and sew them together. Even if you have never knitted top-down raglan sweaters before, this pattern will help you easily master this technique, because it contains a very detailed description and schemes of short rows
• it’s completely seamless and has very cute cuts on the sides
• it’s super fluffy and light
Yarn options:
• Drops Air
• Lana Grossa Alta Moda Alpaca
• Gazzal Alpaca Air
• Gazzal Baby Wool XL
Knitting gauge:
• K1 P1 Rib (5 mm needles): 17 stitches in 10 cm, 30 rows in 10 cm
• False English Rib (5 mm needles): 14 stitches in 10 cm, 32 rows in 10 cm
Needles:
• 5 mm (US 8) circular needles with 40 and 60 (80, 100) cm needle cord
• and 3.5 mm (US 4) stocking needles for the cuffs (or 3.5 mm circular needles if you prefer the magic loop technique)
Yardage: You need 1200-1950 m (1312-2132.5 yd) of yarn depending on you size XXS-5XL
Sizes grid. Bust circumference:
• XXS 75-80 cm | 29½-31½ inches
• XS 80-85 cm | 31½-33½ inches
• S 85-90 cm | 33½-35½ inches
• M 90-95 cm | 35½-37½ inches
• L 95-100 cm | 37½-39½ inches
• XL 100-110 cm | 39½-43¼ inches
• 2XL 110-120 cm | 43¼-47¼ inches
• 3XL 120-130 cm | 47¼-51¼ inches
• 4XL 130-140 cm | 51¼-55 inches
• 5XL 140-150 cm | 55-59 inches
The pattern will give you about 25 cm of positive ease for small sizes (this parameter increases gradually and slightly for larger sizes)
Skills needed to knit the sweater: knitting in the round, flat knitting, casting on, binding off, knitting top-down raglan, knitting K1 P1, knitting False English Rib, knitting Knit Double Rib
