A 1980s design
The Confetti Tweed Sweater
rewritten for your size, yarn and gauge
A relaxed early-1980s raglan sweater with a round neck and deep ribbed welt and cuffs. An easy all-over texture, a crossed stitch and two slipped stitches with the yarn carried across the front, catches the colours of a flecked tweed yarn like scattered confetti. It's knitted flat in four pieces, with the neckband knitted in the round.
- Fit
- Relaxed, about 6½ in (16 cm) of ease at the bust; hip length
- Skill level
- Easy. A simple slip-and-cross texture on raglan pieces.
- 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, DK / light worsted
- Original yarn
- Bulky (chunky), at about 16 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 14 to 22 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 floats get long and the crosses lumpy), and nor is anything finer than heavy DK: the bold confetti texture would shrink to a fine speckle.
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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 confetti pattern itself, not plain stockinette (the pattern shows you how to knit the swatch). The slipped stitches draw the knitting in. 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.
