Designed by Jo Cottle as Acorn Street Shop’s featured knit pattern for the 2024 Puget Sound LYS Tour.

With deep armholes and a loose, drapey cowl neck, Pipeline is designed as a lightweight spring/summer accessory perfect for slipping over a tee or a tank. The construction is top-down, beginning with the back neck and shoulders, which is knit flat. Stitches are then picked up at the shoulders for the fronts and are finally joined at the bottom of the armhole to finish in the round. Once the body is finished, stitches are picked up around the neckline to knit the cowl neck.

DIFFICULTY LEVEL
Intermediate

SKILLS USED
Knit, Purl, M1 Increases, German Short Rows

SIZES
XS (S, M, L) XL, 2XL, 3XL

Finished body width measured flat:
18.75 (20.75, 22.75, 24.75) 26.75, 28.57, 30.75” / 46.5 (51.5, 56.5, 61.5) 66.5, 71.5, 76.5 cm

MATERIALS
Serial Knitters DyeHouse Cherry Creek Sock (80% SW Merino / 20% Nylon, 100 gm / 450 yds / 411 m): 3 (3, 3, 3) 4, 4, 4 skeins
OR
909 (1053, 1157, 1251) 1373, 1458, 1584 yds / 831 (963, 1058, 1144) 1255, 1333, 1448 m / 202 (234, 257, 278) 305, 324, 352 g of comparable fingering weight yarn

US 5 / 3.75 mm circular needle (or size needed to obtain gauge), 16, 24, or 32” (40, 60, or 80 cm) long for body and beginning of cowl neck

US 6 / 4.00 mm circular needle (or one size larger than gauge needle), 24” (60 cm) long for middle of cowl neck

US 7 / 4.5 mm circular needle (or two sizes larger than gauge needle), 24” (60 cm) long for end of cowl neck

Stitch markers
waste yarn or stich holders for shoulders
tapestry needle for weaving in ends

GAUGE
24 stitches and 32 rows = 4” x 4” / 10 x 10 cm
in stockinette knit flat with gauge needle after blocking