Pinch Me by Annie Lupton

Pinch Me

Knitting
May 2026
Fingering (14 wpi) ?
25 stitches and 28 rows = 4 inches
in stockinette st
US 3 - 3.25 mm
1275 - 2600 yards (1166 - 2377 m)
English
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Pinch Me is a colorwork circular yoke sweater featuring stag beetles and hearts. Knit up in Bare Naked Wools Blues Singer Fingering yarn, a lovely BFL wool yarn available in a variety of natural shades.

Finished Dimensions:
• Size 1 (2, 3, 4, 5) (6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
• 34 (38, 42, 46, 50) (54, 58, 62, 66, 70)” / 86.5
(96.5, 106.5, 117, 127) (137, 147.5, 157.5,
167.5, 178) cm Bust circumference
• Designed to fit with 0-2” / 0-5 cm positive ease

Materials:
Bare Naked Wools Blues Singer Fingering (100% Bluefaced Leicester wool 450 yards/411 meters/ 4oz)
• MC Lead Belly (brown): Approximately 1000
• (1145, 1265, 1385, 1510) (1635, 1765, 1895,
2030, 2160) yards / 914 (1047, 1157, 1266,
1381) (1495, 1614, 1733, 1856, 1975) m
• OR 3 (3, 3, 4, 4) (4, 4, 5, 5, 5) skeins
• CC Etta James (white): 275 (285, 315, 345,
375) (410, 440, 475, 510, 540) yards / 251 (261,
288, 315, 343) (375, 402, 434, 466, 494) m
• OR 1 (1, 1, 1, 1) (1, 1, 2, 2, 2) skeins

Gauge:
• 25 sts and 28 rows over 4” / 10 cm in s tockinette st worked in the round and blocked

Needles:
Size 3 (3.25 mm) 16-40” / 40.5-101.5 cm circular needles or size needed to obtain gauge, and additional needle of the same size for
your preferred method of small circumference knitting (9”/ 23 cm circular, 2-circulars, DPNs or Magic Loop) for the sleeves and cuffs
Suggest sizing up 1 or 2 size needles for color work section for even tension

Notions:
• Stitch marker for BOR
• Waste yarn/stitch holder for sleeves

Construction:
Pinch Me is knit in the round, seamlessly, from the top down. The design has German short row shaping at the back of the neck. Increases are worked throughout the charted yoke. Sleeve sts are worked in the round after completing the body.