A 1980s design
The Breakfast Club Sweater
rewritten for your size, yarn and gauge
A big, slouchy mid-1980s V-neck sweater to wear with the sleeves pushed up. A nubbly two-row texture covers simple dropped-shoulder pieces. The sleeves are knitted sideways in one piece, so the texture runs along the arm, and a deep rib collar starts as a mitred V, then opens at the front so it stands up and the ends cross. Deep ribbed welts and cuffs.
- Fit
- Oversized, about 12½ in (32 cm) of ease at the bust; dropped shoulders
- Skill level
- Intermediate. Simple shapes, but the sleeves are knitted sideways and the collar is mitred.
- Sizes
- US 4 to 24 (UK 8 to 28, EU 36 to 56): 32 to 52 in (81 to 132 cm) bust
- Yarns
- Bulky / chunky, Worsted / Aran
- Original yarn
- Bulky (chunky), at about 14 sts and 22 rows to 4 in (10 cm) over the pattern. For the closest match to the photo, use a yarn that knits to this gauge.
- Gauge
- Your own, from 11.5 to 19 stitches per 4 in (10 cm)
- You get
- Your complete pattern straight away, to read on screen, print or save, plus an email link back to it
Super bulky yarn isn't offered (the sideways sleeves and collar get very heavy), and nor is anything finer than worsted (Aran): the slouchy 80s look is lost.
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What you'll get
- Every piece written out in full for your size and gauge
- Row counts with the length to check against, so you always know where you are
- Row-by-row planners for the tricky bits, where shaping happens on both edges at once
- Drawings of each piece with your measurements, and full making-up instructions
Every design is chosen by a knitter and checked against its original pattern. If you get stuck, email us and a real person will help.
This one needs a swatch. Please measure your gauge over the textured pattern itself, not plain stockinette (the pattern shows you how to knit the swatch). A yarn label's gauge is for plain stockinette, so it won't give the right size here. Here's how to measure your gauge.
