This delightful duo features a series of interchangeable options. Click here to view the preview knitters and see how they pulled elements from both designs to create the sweater they desired!

Both designs are worked from the top down with raglan-style seamless sleeves and include options for cropped or longer sweaters, short or long sleeves, waist shaping or straight body styles + yardage information for either a solid or striped sweater. They also include technique instruction & a number of links to helpful tutorials along with 15 sizes so you can knit up precisely the fit and amount of ease according to your personal preference. Sweaters are shown in Size 3 and are modeled with approximately 1”/2.5 cm negative ease at the full bust.

Katy Lin (the cardigan) features standard, classically fitting sleeves with a 2-row Stripe Repeat. Meebles (the pullover) features fabulous puffed sleeves and a keyhold back opening with a 4-round Stripe Repeat. The patterns are worked with the same gauge and construction methods so that you can easily swap out sleeve styles to create the lightweight stripey (or solid!) sweater you’ve been dreaming of. Each pattern easily stands alone with a myriad of options & sizes, but they are even better together.

Yarn
Meebles features Spincycle Yarns Dyed in the Wool; Katy Lin features Madelinetosh Tosh Sock. With a gauge of 23 stitches & 32 rows per 4”/10 cm, work these designs with a heavy fingering to sport weight yarn depending on the density of your desired fabric.

Experience
In general, these sweaters are suitable for adventurous beginning knitters, with Katy Lin as a slightly easier knit and completely appropriate as a first sweater project that is a fabulous closet staple as well. Meebles features a few additional techniques that lean towards the intermediate level, but there is plenty of included instruction for these techniques & even written opportunity to replace them with easier methods. A series of video tutorials are available (linked directly in the patterns) to help newer knitters from sizing to demonstrating both separating sleeves from body and the cable cast-on and more. Instructions for also provided to replace a provisional cast-on with standard cast on, optional Tubular Bind-off (not shown on sample) and one-row buttonhole (for Katy Lin only).

• Katy Lin: This is an beginner level knit, friendly as a first sweater project. Knitters should be comfortable with basic increasing and decreasing and picking up stitches.

• Meebles: This is an adventurous beginner/intermediate level knit, only because there are a few additional featured techniques although each one is written up in the pattern. Knitters should be comfortable with basic increasing and decreasing and picking up stitches. Swift increasing takes places at the top of the Sleeves and and an i-cord is used in combination with the neckline bind-off to create the back buttonhole. Instructions for this I-cord and the bind-off are provided.

eBook published in May 2024 by Kate Oates

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