Free Knitting Pattern – Puffed Sleeved Sweater

This sweater is perfect for knitters looking for a new challenge and want to showcase their skills. The twisted cable pattern on the front, back and sleeves adds a touch of complexity and elegance to the design. It is not only a challenging pattern but also a beautiful and stylish sweater that you will be proud to wear. The intricate cable pattern creates a unique texture that is sure to turn heads.

The dropped shoulders and shallow turtleneck are modern design elements that give this sweater a contemporary look. The dropped shoulders give the sweater a relaxed and casual feel, while the shallow turtleneck adds an element of sophistication. This combination of design elements makes this sweater suitable for a wide range of occasions and styles. You can wear it on a casual day out or dress it up for a more formal event.

The pattern requires a pair of 5mm and 4mm knitting needles, a cable needle, and stitch holders. The different needle sizes will be used to create the cable pattern, and the cable needle will be used to cross the stitches and create the twisted effect. The stitch holders will be used to hold the stitches temporarily while you work on other parts of the sweater.

Overall, this pattern is a great choice for advanced knitters looking for a new challenge and a stylish and chic sweater to add to their wardrobe. With its intricate cable pattern, modern design elements, and the ability to showcase your knitting skills, this sweater is sure to be a favorite. Available for download on the Sirdar website.

Knit a Sideways Cable Sweater

Crossings: Historical Cable Collection

When I was looking around for free knitting patterns to share recently, I came across this fun leopard print wrap from Yarnspirations.

This fun bulky wrap gives you tons of practice with instarsia and makes a bold statement while keeping you warm. It’s rated for intermediate knitters and the design is charted but pretty easy to follow. And it’s only 50 rows and worked in bulky yarn, so it wouldn’t even take that long to knit. (You can grab the free pattern from Yarnspirations.)

So what’s the problem? The yarn that the pattern calls for has been discontinued, and it’s not a yarn that a substitute for immediately springs to mind.

The original yarn was Patons Alpaca Blend, a single ply bulky yarn that was a combination of acrylic, superwash wool, nylon and alpaca.

My first thought was Lion Brand Hue + Me, which is an acrylic and wool blend, with two plies instead of a single. It looks like it has the colors you would need to make this fun shawl.

But as I was thinking about it, I thought this would be a good opportunity to introduce you to YarnSub if you don’t already know about it. This website is a giant database of yarn that can consider the qualities of the yarn you want to substitute and offer potential substitutions.

It’s not only thinking about yarn weight, like I was, but also fiber content, number of plies, gauge and even the difference in yardage between one ball and another. It even looks at the price and can be filtered by your price range or preferences about fiber content (if, say, you’re sensitive or allergic to wool, for example, or don’t want to you acrylic).

When I plugged in Alpaca Blend, it gave me a lot of different options, though many of them were self-striping or multicolored, which wouldn’t work for this project, and I don’t see a way to filter for solid colors only.

Still, it’s a good tool to give you some ideas you might not know about or might have forgotten about, and it tells you how the new yarn is similar to the old one and how it differs, allowing you to make smarter choices when substituting yarns.

[Photo: Yarnspirations]

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