If you like my designs, sign up for my newsletter so that you won’t miss out on future introductory discounts and subscriber-only promotions, you can get 15% off your next purchase, too!

Do you have lots of single skeins or leftover yarns in various weight and don’t know what to do with them? Destash tee is designed to be a fun destash project, you can use any combination of yarn weights (up to worsted weight) in as many colors as you want. The pattern includes quick prototyping tips on how to come up with your own color scheme and how to choose colors as you knit. The two-color brioche pattern makes it easy to transition between different colors. This pattern uses the simplest method of working two-color brioche stitch: in the round with no shaping and no short rows. You only have to knit with one color at a time. This pattern is suitable for knitters who want to try two-color brioche knitting for the first time.

This tee is worked seamlessly from the top down. You can easily adapt this pattern to make it shorter or longer, with more or less waist shaping. Tips are given in the pattern.

Destash Tee is graded with inclusive sizing in mind, designed to fit actual bust sizes from 76 cm / 30 inches to 168 cm / 66 inches. Measurements are given in both cm and inches. This pattern comes with video tutorials.

Materials

Yarn

Sport to worsted weight in 5 colors (double or triple the yardage if you are using two or three strands of finer yarns)

• MC (cinnamon): 180 (200, 220, 235, 265) {300, 325, 345, 385, 415} m / 195 (220, 240, 255, 290) {325, 355, 380, 420, 455} yds, including 10% allowance

• Color A (dark brown): 105 (115, 125, 135, 150) {170, 185, 200, 220, 240} m / 115 (125, 140, 145, 165) {185, 205, 215, 240, 260} yds, including 10% allowance

• Color B (marl brown): 120 (135, 145, 155, 175) {200, 215, 230, 255, 275} m / 130 (145, 160, 170, 190) {215, 235, 250, 280, 300} yds, including 10% allowance

• Color C (wheat): 45 (50, 55, 60, 70) {75, 85, 90, 100, 105} m / 50 (55, 60, 65, 75) {85, 90, 95, 110, 115} yds, including 10% allowance

• Color D (salmon): 140 (155, 170, 180, 205) {230, 250, 265, 295, 320} m / 150 (170, 185, 195, 220) {250, 270, 290, 325, 350} yds, including 10% allowance

Fingering weight in 1 color (only used in the short row sections and the neckband)

• Color E (fingering weight): 60 (65, 70, 75, 85) {95, 105, 110, 125, 135} m / 65 (70, 75, 80, 95) {105, 115, 120, 135, 145} yds, including 10% allowance

Notions

Stitch marker; waste yarn; yarn needle

Needles

• 4 mm / US 6 circular needle of length 60-100 cm / 24-40 inches, depending on your size; adjust needle size if necessary to obtain gauge.

• 5.5 mm / US 9 circular needle of length 60-100 cm / 24-40 inches, depending on your size.

• 5.5 mm / US 9 needles in your preferred style for small circumference knitting in the round, for the neckband.

• 4 mm / US 6 needles in your preferred style for small circumference knitting in the round, for the armhole edgings.

Gauge

14 sts and 20 rows = 10 cm / 4 inches in 2-color Brioche stitch on smaller needle worked in the round, blocked.

Note: It is not necessary to match row gauge since this design is knit to specific lengths but it affects the yardage.

Sizes

Size 1 (2, 3, 4, 5) {6, 7, 8, 9, 10}

This garment is intended to be worn with about 0-5 cm / 0-2 inches positive ease.

Shown in size 1, modeled with 2.5 cm / 1 inch of positive ease.

Finished Measurements

Bust circumference: 81.5 (88.5, 100, 108.5, 120) {130, 140, 150, 157, 168.5} cm / 32 (34.75, 39.25, 42.75, 47.25) {51.25, 55, 59, 61.75, 66.25} inches

How to choose your size: Measure a sweater in a similar style in your closet or add the amount of desired ease to your actual bust measurement, pick the size closest to that number. For between sizes, choose the smaller size. For example, if you want 2.5 cm / 1 inches of positive ease and your bust measurement is 99 cm / 39 inches, you should pick size 3.

Required Skills

Brioche knitting, decreases, increases, knitting in the round