Syncope Sweater Knitting Pattern

I can’t say for sure what has come over me, but I have lately been feeling like I want to knit a cropped sweater. I do not particularly have a wasitline that I would consider conducive to cropped sweaters, but maybe this is part of me accepting my body as it is in middle age (gasp).

In truth I’ve started to think it would be cute to have a cropped sweater to wear over dresses or with button down shirts. If things get really wild, it might cause me to experiment with high-waisted pants. Look out, world.

Syncope means fainting, and the reason this sweater has that name is because the designer, Winter’s Weather Knits, has lately been prone to fainting spells because of low weight and blood pressure. They say this sweater feels like the sensation of fuzziness before fainting, which doesn’t really sound like a good thing, but they report that it is kind of comforting.

Whatever the name, it’s a cute cropped drop shoulder sweater with a slipped stitch pattern that gives it a lot of simple texture. It’s worked from the bottom up in one piece and comes in nine sizes.

Chest measurements for the sweater range from 39 to 71 inches, or 99 to 180.5 cm, and it is meant to be worn with 8.5 to 10.5 inches/21.5 to 26.5 cm of positive ease. You can adjust that as you like, and you could also make it longer if you want, though it’s harder to adjust bottom up patterns because you can’t try them on as you go. If you know how long you typically like your sweaters you can go by that measurement.

The sweater is worked in fingering weight yarn, so it’s great for that weird time when nature can’t quite decide what season it is. Or for layering when you don’t want to add too much extra weight or warmth.

You can find the pattern on Ravelry.

[Photo: Winter’s Weather Knits]

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Over the years I have shared a lot of pumpkin knitting patterns, and I’ve knit and crocheted a lot of pumpkins myself. But it feels like there are always more fun things to try with knit pumpkins, so this year I wanted to look a little more beyond basic stockinette or ribbed pumpkins and share some pumpkin patterns with cables, bobbles and colorwork.

In the cable collection we’ve got these cute little basic cable and ribbed pumpkins from Elly Bear Knits. There are two sizes that make a wide, flat pumpkin and a taller round pumpkin. Both are worked in the round as a tube that’s cinched top and bottom when you’re done, and they use bulky weight yarn.

Another cute cable pumpkin knitting pattern comes from Gray Bear Akswokrat. This one is knit flat and it looks like a chunky yarn but you could use other weights to make pumpkins of different sizes. This one also has an I-cord stem and uses yarn to cinch up the sections of the pumpkin, giving it a more natural look.

Add some bobbles to your pumpkins with this design from Autumn Shelter Makes. Also worked in the round in a tube, it features a repeating pattern of bobbles and uses yarn wrapped around the outside to make segments. This one looks like worsted weight yarn to me.

Of course there’s nothing that says your pumpkin has to be a single color, so let’s throw in some colorwork. I love the look of the Cozy Fall Pumpkin knitting pattern from South Stitch Girls. The little leather loop adds a rustic touch but you could also just add a stick. These pumpkins have five colorwork options and are worked in worsted weight yarn in the round.

There’s also the Autumn Fair Isle Trio pumpkins pattern from Equestriann Style, which has three different sizes of pumpkins with four colorwork designs. They are worked in super bulky yarn in the round and look good with high contrast or more muted color combinations.

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