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]
