Love Your Sweater-LYS Day Knitting Pattern (Baah Yarn)

Love Your Sweater (LYS) by Becca Anderson was designed for Local Yarn Store Day 2024. This sweater is perfect for Spring and Summer!

This pattern has been test knit.

Pattern Notes
PLEASE NOTE: the colors you use should be high contrast. Also, if you are using variegated yarn, only use it for color A, then use a high contrast solid or tonal for B. Using a variegated for color B will not work in every instance I’ve seen. Your colorwork will completely get lost.

The gauge uses a heavy fingering weight yarn at a looser gauge. La Jolla blooms and fulls beautifully when soaked so you end up with a drapey fabric at a looser gauge than is typical for fingering. Be sure to block your swatch. Lighter fingering weight yarns may not work. Sport and dk weight yarns may work beautifully, but please check gauge.

This pattern uses 2-4 skeins of Fingering weight yarn. Sample was Knitted using 3 skeins of Baah LaJolla.

Skill
Knitting

Sizes
34.2 (37, 40, 43.3)[46.2, 49, 52]{55.3, 57.8, 61}” Love Your Sweater is meant to be worn with approximately 2” of positive ease. Take your actual bust measurement, add 2”, and choose the next size up from the list.

Materials Needed
color A: 800 (800, 800, 800)1200, 1200, 1200{1600, 1600, 1600}yds Baah Yarn La Jolla
color B: 100 (100, 100, 110)110, 110, 150{150, 150, 150}yds Baah Yarn Halo if holding double. If you are not using a yarn held double for color B, you will use approximately half the yardage.

Needles: US 4 - 3.5 mm & US 3 - 3.25 mm (Needle sizes will differ from knitter to knitter, so be sure to use the needle that gets you the correct gauge.)

GAUGE
Gauge: 22 sts = 4” in stockinette stitch in the round after gentle blocking.