Inspired by a recent move to Lowestoft – the most Easterly town in the UK – this Most Easterly Sweater is the first I have finished writing up since we arrived. It is relatively simple, and might therefore even be attempted by an ambitious beginner. A squishy roll neck sits atop coils of colour block stripes. Designed in a looser style, in Drops Andes yarn which is 65% wool, 35% alpaca and super soft, with a generous body and sleeves, it is perfect for layering up for a brisk walk along South Beach.<\/p>\n
You can, of course, knit the whole thing in one colour if you prefer, or mix it up with stripes \u2013 the world is your oyster.<\/p>\n
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Available in 5 sizes: from a UK 10-12 to a UK 22-24 – sizes ranging from 36\u201d to 50\u201d approximately.<\/p>\n
You will need<\/strong>: <\/p>\n Gauge: 10sts \/ 15 rows to 10cm<\/p>\n *ANOTHER NOTE ON YARN<\/strong><\/em> If you were to knit this sweater in a single colour, you would need a lot less yarn. Some colours, for example, might use 3.1 balls of yarn for one colour, so you\u2019d have to buy 4. I plan to design a hat in the next little while to use up those Andes yarn scraps so that nothing is wasted. Here are the numbers of balls you would need in a single solid colour: Sweater pictured is the smallest size \u2013 10\/12 \u2013 so you can see how generous it is. It would also comfortably fit a size 14.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Inspired by a recent move to Lowestoft – the most Easterly town in the UK – this Most Easterly Sweater is the first I have finished writing up since we arrived. It is relatively simple, and might therefore even be attempted by an ambitious beginner. A squishy roll neck sits atop coils of colour block stripes. Designed in a looser style, in Drops Andes yarn which is 65% wool, 35% alpaca and super soft, with a generous body and sleeves, it is perfect for layering up for a brisk walk along South Beach.<\/p>\n You can, of course, knit the whole thing in one colour if you prefer, or mix it up with stripes \u2013 the world is your oyster.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Available in 5 sizes: from a UK 10-12 to a UK 22-24 – sizes ranging from 36\u201d to 50\u201d approximately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2520,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[23,489],"product_tag":[493,492,496],"class_list":{"0":"post-2515","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-patterns","7":"product_cat-sweaters-and-cardigans","8":"product_tag-alice-in-knittingland","9":"product_tag-alice-neal","10":"product_tag-most-easterly-sweater","12":"first","13":"instock","14":"featured","15":"downloadable","16":"shipping-taxable","17":"purchasable","18":"product-type-simple"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aliceinknittingland.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/product\/2515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aliceinknittingland.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aliceinknittingland.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aliceinknittingland.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2515"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aliceinknittingland.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aliceinknittingland.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aliceinknittingland.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fproduct_brand&post=2515"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aliceinknittingland.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fproduct_cat&post=2515"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aliceinknittingland.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fproduct_tag&post=2515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u25aa 10\/12 1100g (C1: 100g, C2: 100g, C3: 100g, C4: 200g, C5: 300g, C6: 300g) *
\n\u25aa 14\/16 1200g (C1: 100g, C2: 100g, C3: 100g, C4: 200g, C5: 400g, C6: 300g) *
\n\u25aa 16\/18 1300g (C1: 100g, C2: 200g, C3: 100g, C4: 200g, C5: 400g, C6: 300g) *
\n\u25aa 20\/22 1500g (C1: 100g, C2: 200g, C3: 100g, C4: 300g, C5, 400g, C6: 400g) *
\n\u25aa 22\/24 1600g (C1: 100g: C2: 200g, C3: 200g, C4: 300g, C5, 400g, C6, 400g) * of Drops Andes in 5 or 6 chosen colours, or a super chunky yarn of equivalent gauge.
\n\u25aa 7mm circular knitting needles 8mm circular knitting needles 9mm circular knitting needles 10mm circular knitting needles, all at least 80cm long, though I tend to buy 100cm or 120cm long (or even longer!) and use the magic loop method, so that I can try it on without the faff of transferring it to scrap yarn
\n\u25aa Stitch markers
\n\u25aa tapestry needle for sewing in ends.
\n* A NOTE ON YARN<\/strong><\/em> You will not use all the yarn. Because of the different colours used, you will use a lot more of the body colours, and a lot less of the yoke colours. If you were knitting it in one solid colour, it would take less yarn. For example, the 10\/12 size jumper, completed, weighs 720g. There is a lot of leftover yarn to make a hat or three with! See note below for approximately how much yarn you would need to knit this pattern in a single solid colour
\nSweater pictured is the smallest size \u2013 10\/12 \u2013 so you can see how generous it is. It would also comfortably fit a size 14.<\/p>\n
\n10\/12: 7.4 balls
\n14\/16: 8 balls
\n16\/18: 8.4 balls
\n20\/22: 9.8 balls
\n22\/24: 10.4 balls<\/p>\n