All Together Sweater Knitting Pattern

In these weird times its easy to feel separated from family, friends and community. As knitwear designer Joji Locatelli has sheltered in Argentina, she’s been thinking about how we are all connected in the sense of coming together to care for each other by staying home and connecting with each other online.

She also wanted a way to document this time and remember it through a knitting project, so the All Together sweater was born.

It’s a top down sweater with large colorwork motif featuring flowers and the words All Together in script. For the smaller sizes there’s more ease, and the larger sizes have some added motifs to fill in the space around the words (there are eight sizes in all).

The project used a laceweight yarn held with mohair but you can also use a single strand of heavy fingering or sport weight yarn instead.

The project is free on Ravelry.

[Photo: Joji Locatelli.]

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When I knit socks (which sadly I have not done in a while; need to get a new pair on the needles soon!) I generally stick to pretty simple designs and colorwork that isn’t all that detailed.

Don’t get me wrong, I love a fancy sock, I’m also just pretty lazy and I figure a project worked on size 0 or 1 US needles is going to take a long time even without the added work of intricate colorwork, so why make it more complicated?

But there are definitely socks out there I’d be willing to make an exception for, and I think Tangled Bliss by Annette Schleicher may just be one of them.

If you can’t tell from looking, this is decidedly an advanced knitting pattern. There’s brioche for the cuffs, complex looking colorwork done with the ladderback jacquard technique, multiple charts, and colors changing everywhere.

There are links to tutorials for all the special skills in the pattern, but still it would help to have a handle on these concepts before you get started.

The pattern uses three colors of light fingering weight yarn at a whopping 31 stitches per 4 inches/10 cm (that’s 7.75 stitches per inch/2.5 cm).

Would you believe me if I told you that this pattern was designed for a speed knitting contest? Speed would be the last thing on my mind.

But again, I think all the work for these fancy socks would be worth it. I love hoe the colorwork looks like an old tile floor, and think of the bragging rights when you tell people you made them yourself. (Though of course you did; have you ever seen store-bought socks that look anything like this?)

Best of all, this pattern is available for free on Ravelry, so there’s no reason not to give it a try if you’ve got the skills. If you do, I’d love to hear about it!

[Photo: Annette Schleicher]

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