Shadow Stripe Pullover

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by Jared Flood

Explore tone and texture with the Shadow Stripe Pullover! Elegantly shaped epaulets anchor the easy-fitting drop-shoulder silhouette, worked top-down in intriguing Shadow Garter Stitch accentuated by Tones Light’s light-and-dark color palette and lofty woolen-spun construction. Customize with your choice of stripe pattern in two to four (or more!) colors, hem treatments, and body and sleeve lengths in mix-and-match sizes.

Construction

This garment is knit from the top down with a unique construction beginning with architectural ribbed epaulets at the shoulders. R and L Epaulets are worked separately and joined together to form a foundation epaulet piece; the Front body and Back body are picked up separately and worked flat directly down from this piece to the knitter’s choice of Semi-Cropped, Classic, or Tall body lengths. After completion of the body, sleeves are picked up from the sides of the body and worked flat top-down to the knitter’s choice of Short, Half, or Long sleeve lengths. After the sleeves are completed, the garment resembles a “+” shape. Then the garment is folded in half (forming a “T” shape) and finished with two easy seams, one at each side of the garment.
Working a garment top-down makes fit customization much easier for sleeve and body lengths: the garment can be loosely pinned together along the side and sleeve seams and tried on as it is being worked — allowing for sleeve and body lengths to be checked for fit before binding off.
This garment’s construction allows for a mixing-and-matching of body and sleeve sizes to tailor fit; see Schematic for dimensions.

Finished Dimensions

SIZES 1 (2, 3, 4) (5, 6, 7) (8, 9, 10, 11)

37 (41, 45, 49) (53, 57, 61) (65, 69, 73, 77)“ [94 (104, 114.5, 124.5) (134.5, 145, 155) (165, 175.5, 185.5, 195.5) cm] circumference at chest. See Schematic for additional dimensions.
Cadence is 5’8”/172.5 cm tall and is wearing the 2 color sample in Size 3 with 7¾”/19.5 cm positive ease.
Sunra is 6’2”/188 cm tall and is wearing the 3 color sample in Size 4 with 11”/28 cm positive ease.
Molly is 5’6”/167.5 cm tall and is wearing the 3 color sample in Size 4 with 15”/38 cm positive ease.

Yarn

Brooklyn Tweed Tones Light — 100% Columbia Wool (225 yards/206 meters per 50g skein)

Two-Color Version:

Color 1 (C1): 5 (5, 6, 6) (6, 7, 7) (7, 8, 8, 8) skeins
Color 2 (C2): 4^ (5, 5^, 5) (6, 6, 6) (6, 7, 7, 7) skeins
Two-color sample in Melba Overtone (C1) and Melba Undertone (C2) shown in Semi Cropped length with Half Sleeve and Garter Stitch Trim variations.

Three-Color Version:

Color 1 (C1): 5 (6, 6, 6) (7, 7, 7) (8, 8, 8, 9) skeins
Color 2 (C2): 3 (3, 3, 3) (3, 3, 3^) (4, 4, 4, 4) skeins
Color 3 (C3): 2 (2, 2, 2^) (3, 3, 3) (3, 3, 3, 3) skeins
Three-color sample in Baseline Undertone (C1), Zest Undertone (C2), and Zest Overtone (C3), and shown in Classic Tall length with Long Sleeve and Ribbed Trim variations.
The marked skein counts “^” are near or exact to the listed yardage; consider adding an extra skein.

Potential yarn substitutes include Peerie. Note that put-ups (yardage per skein) may be different for alternate yarn lines, so check your total yardage for your size.

Yardage

In fingering weight wool yarn:

Two-Color Version:

Approximately 1005 (1070, 1150, 1220) (1305, 1370, 1450) (1525, 1600, 1675, 1745) yards 919 (978, 1052, 1116) (1193, 1253, 1326) (1394,