Put your beautiful odd balls to good use! Just pick 12 worsted weight yarns, in same colour scheme!

This easy T-shirt style sweater is knitted sleeve to sleeve, all one piece. Just sew under the arms. The stripe sequence appears to be random, but is actually using each of the 12 yarns in order and alternating knit and purl.

I bought this “Giant skein” on a trip to New Brunswick the summer before and looked at it for a year. I knew I wanted to design a simple sweater that mixed up the yarn textures, but in a way that unified them as one yarn.

YARN: 12 yarns in one giant skein, from HAND PAINTED KNITTING YARNS. This came as a huge bundle of different yarns all dyed the same colourway. There is enough yarn included to make an X-large sweater, or afghan.

ADVICE: You wouldn’t have to use the pre-selected yarns included in this bundle, why not pick 12 different yarns of your own choice? Consider this design as a stash buster!

PATTERN DETAILS
This is a close fitting garment. Choose a size which gives you 5-10 cm/ 2-4 ins of ease. Cowl pattern included: 30”circumference and 15” depth
PDF: 4 pages, color front cover
metric and imperial measurements, schematic, stripe sequence charted only
Rated: intermediate
Skills required: knit/purl, cut and join yarn, read chart, pick up sts
Materials required: 110 m/ 120 yds each of 12 worsted weight yarns (enough for all sizes)
long pair needles or circular worked back and forth 5 mm/ US 8, pair of needles 4 mm/ US 6 (for borders), circular needle 5 mm/ US 8, 60 cm/ 24 ins long (for cowl only), 2 large stitch holders, stitch marker, yarn needle