Petula Pullover by Isabell Kraemer

Petula Pullover

Knitting
March 2019
Sport (12 wpi) ?
22 stitches and 30 rows = 4 inches
in stockinette
US 3 - 3.25 mm
US 4 - 3.5 mm
1480 - 1850 yards (1353 - 1692 m)
XS, S, M, L, XL, 2X
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Field Guide No. 10: Downtown transports you to the heart of great design!

To see an Isabell Kraemer pattern is to want it: to knit it, and to wear it. The designs that work so well for Isabell herself somehow work well for a lot of other knitters, too.

Isabell’s cosmopolitan designs are comfortable everywhere, doing everything. They are casual, but considered. They are garments of confidence and ease. In other words: we all need to make one!

A band of geometric color makes this a very modern yoke. This sport-weight sweater works with pretty much any combination of two colors you can think up: dark with a light yoke, light with a dark yoke, subtle or wild as you wish.

This sweater is worked from the top down, such a fun technique: around and around, trying on as you go.

Materials
Mohonk by Jill Draper Makes Stuff [4 oz (113 g) skeins, each approx 370 yds (338 m), 100% lambswool]: 4 (4, 4, 5, 5, 5) skeins Bone (A); 1 skein Barnside (B)

or

Civility Sport by Elemental Affects [4 oz (112 g) skeins, each approx 400 yds (365 m), 70% U.S. Merino/30% Mulberry Silk]: 4 (4, 4, 5, 5, 5) skeins Pearl Grey (A); 1 skein Serge (B)

— Size US 3 (3.25 mm) circular needles, 16” (40 cm) and 32” (80 cm) long, and double-pointed needles (set of 4or5)
— Size US 4 (3.5 mm) circular needles, 16” (40 cm) and 32” (80 cm) long and double-pointed needles (set of 4 or 5), or size needed to achieve gauge
— Stitch markers
— Waste yarn

Knitted Measurements
— Bust: 35.75” (39.25, 43, 45.75, 48.75, 52.25)“ [91 (99.5, 109, 116, 124, 132.5) cm]
— Length to top of shoulder: 24.5” (25, 25.5, 26, 26.5, 27)” [62 (63.5, 65, 66, 67.5, 68.5) cm]

Size
— X-Small (Small, Medium, Large, X-Large, 2X-Large)
— To fit bust sizes 30–32” (34–36, 38–40, 40–42, 43–45, 47–49)“ [76–81.5 (86.5–91.5, 96.5–101.5, 101.5–106.5, 109–114.5, 119.5–124.5) cm]

Gauge
— 22 sts and 30 rows = 4” (10 cm) over St st, using larger needle

Special Technique and Abbreviations
— German Short Rows
— DS: Double stitch

Notes
This pullover is worked in the round from the top down to the armholes, then sleeves and body are divided and worked separately in the round to bottom edge. Short rows are used to shape back neck and lower back yoke.

The Petula Pullover is not sold as a single pattern.