Blossoming is a top down, yoked sweater, featuring half-length sleeves and a cropped waist. Short row shaping is incorporated to ensure an optimal fit and the yoke, body and sleeve lengths are customisable to your own preferences. It features delicate stranded colourwork around the upper yoke, lower body and lower sleeves that combine traditional stranded colourwork with some more unusual techniques to create unique and beautiful embellishment. This lightweight, elegant garment, worked on fingering weight yarn, is perfect for warmer months and looks especially stunning worn with skirts or layered over summer dresses.

Yarn
This design has been created using Eden Cottage Yarns’ Oakworth 4 ply (in colourways Driftwood and Briar Rose), a gorgeous, crisp, bouncy and smooth superwash Polwarth wool yarn, which has great stitch definition.

Sizing Guide
Blossoming is available in sizes XS (S: M: L: XL) (2XL: 3XL: 4XL: 5XL). Intended positive ease is 0-3” at the chest circumference.

Chest Circumference: 30” (34”: 38”: 42”: 46”) (50”: 54”: 58”: 62”) / 76cm (86cm: 96.5cm: 107cm: 117cm) (127cm: 137cm: 147cm: 157.5cm)

Front Length: 17.5” (18”: 18.25”: 18.5”: 18.75”) (19”: 19”: 19.5”: 19.5”) / 44.5cm (46cm: 46.5cm: 47cm: 47.5cm) (48cm: 48cm: 49.5cm: 49.5cm) (customisable)

Waistband Circumference: 29.5” (32”: 36.5”: 40”: 44.5”) (48.5”: 51”: 55”: 59.5”) / 75cm (81cm: 93cm: 101.5cm: 113cm) (123cm: 129.5cm: 140cm: 151cm) (customisable)

Upper Arm Circumference: 10” (10.5”: 11.25”: 12.25”: 13.75”) (15.75”: 17.25”: 18.75”: 19”) / 25.5cm (26.5cm: 28.5cm: 31cm: 35cm) (40cm: 44cm: 47.5cm: 48cm) (customisable)

Yardage
MC yardage (for half-length sleeves): 754 (831: 910: 1074: 1135) (1250: 1328: 1461: 1529) metres / 189 (208: 228: 269: 284) (313: 332: 365: 382) grams

CC yardage: 124 (133: 143: 155: 168) (181: 189: 202: 208) metres / 31 (33: 36: 39: 42) (45: 47: 50: 52) grams.

For full-length sleeves, MC yardage increases by 186 (197: 205: 225: 254) (280: 289: 330: 332) metres / 46 (49: 51: 56: 64) (70: 72: 83: 83) grams.

Gauge
On 3.25mm / US size 3 needles, working in stockinette in the round, 28 sts over 36 rnds creates a 4x4 square.

Tools
2.75mm / US size 2 circular needles
3.25mm / US size 3 circular needles
Tapestry needle for weaving ends
Scrap yarn