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

Love Your Sweater was created for Local Yarn Store Day 2024. This design is the perfect warm weather garment and is great for layering! 

Designed by: Becca Anderson

Skill
Knitting

Sizes:
Finished measurements: 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.

Finished length from underarm to bottom of hem is 14” for all sizes. The sweater is extremely easy to add length to, but if you are adding length, you will use more yardage.

Model is shown wearing 46.2” size with a 44” actual bust.

Materials Needed:
Baah Yarn La Jolla 100% SW Merino 400yds/115gr - Color A: 800 (800, 800, 800)1200, 1200, 1200{1600, 1600, 1600}yds 
Baah Yarn Halo 55% Alpaca, 25% Silk, 20% Kid Mohair 400yds/50gr (if holding double) Color B: 100 (100, 100, 110)110, 110, 150{150, 150, 150}yds  (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.

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.