SANDDORN is the German word for “Sea Buckthorn”, the little berry I used to come across a lot when I was a child. Strangely enough, it is not that widely spread here in Austria, so I created one myself, in form of this sweater, with the little bobbles reminding me of Sanddorn.

It is a seamless top-down sweater with a lace pattern on the yoke while the rest is made in simple stockinette.

The range of ease across all the sizes is 6.5 – 7.5 cm /2.5 – 3”. The picture shows size 2 with 7 cm/2.75” of positive ease.

YARN:
CONCEPT BY KATIA Mohair Cotton, fingering weight, (70% Cotton, 30% Mohair), 225 m/246 yds in 50 Gr
Grams: 300 (330, 370, 415, 470, 535, 590)
Metres: 1350 (1485, 1665, 1870, 2115, 2410, 2655)
Yards: 1475 (1625, 1820, 2040, 2310, 2630, 2905)
I used color 074 (Beige-Red)

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:
27 sts/36 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)
to fit chest circumference: 75 (85, 100, 110, 125, 145, 160) cm/30 (34, 40, 44, 50, 58, 64)“

FINISHED CHEST MEASUREMENT:
81.5 (92, 106.5, 117, 132, 152.5, 167.5) cm/32.5 (36.75, 42.5, 46.75, 52.75, 61, 67)“

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 separate the sleeves and the body, work the neck shaping with short rows, then continue working the sleeves and the body separately.

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