The little “eights” on the circular yoke were the reason why I gave this name to my new pattern.

It is a seamless top-down sweater with an interesting lace pattern on the yoke while the rest is made in reverse stockinette (knitted on wrong side). It has a generous ease to give you more freedom of motion.

The range of ease across all the sizes is 9.5 -11.5 cm /3.75 – 4.5”.

The picture shows size 3 with 10 cm/4” of positive ease.

YARN:
TOT SPORT by Tot-le-Matin Yarns, (100% Merino SW), 300 m/328 yds in 100 Gr
Grams: 350 (370, 415, 450, 520, 550, 610, 665)
Metres: 1050 (1110, 1245, 1350, 1560, 1650, 1830, 1995)
Yards: 1150 (1215, 1360, 1475, 1705, 1805, 2000, 2180)
I used color SLOW

NEEDLES:
• 2.5 mm/U.S. size 1.5 80 cm/32” circular needles
• 2.5 mm/U.S. size 1.5 60 cm/24” circular needles or your preferred needles for knitting small circumference in the round (neck)
• 3.0 mm/U.S. size 2.5 80 cm/32” circular needles, or size needed to obtain gauge
• 3.0 mm/U.S. size 2.5 circular needles or your preferred needles for knitting small circumference in the round (sleeves)

NOTIONS:
• stitch holders or waste yarn
• main marker and smaller markers for chart sections
• cable needle
• tapestry needle or crochet hook to weave in ends

GAUGE:
25 sts/34 RNDs = 10 cm/4” square in stockinette stitch on 3.0 mm/U.S. size 2.5 needles after blocking

SIZES:
1 (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
to fit chest circumference: 70 (75, 87.5, 100, 110, 120, 135, 150) cm/28 (30, 35, 40, 44, 48, 54, 60)“

FINISHED CHEST MEASUREMENT:
82 (86, 98, 110, 122, 130, 146, 162) cm/33 (34.5, 39, 44, 49, 52, 58.5, 65)“

PATTERN NOTES:

• The sweater is worked in one piece top down. You start with neck band in garter stitch, then work the round yoke according to the lace charts. After the round yoke, you work the neck shaping with short rows, then separate the sleeves and the body and continue working them separately.

SKILLS REQUIRED:

• basics (cast on/bind off, knit/purl, increase/decrease)
• short rows
• working in the round
• working from a chart