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Before I get started, SORRY THIS ISN’T A FULL WRITTEN PATTERN. I listed down the basic gist of this chunky knit beginner sweater (the numbers of certain stitches, yarn, size of knitting needles) below. Since it is quite a basic sweater, there really isn’t much to the overall pattern itself. But I’ll still be writing some tips and explanation as to the creation of this sweater!
INSPIRATION & DESCRIPTION & PROCESS
I’ve actually had this yarn ever since I made the ombre tie-dye blanket pattern on the Yarnalina blog, and for the longest time I had no clue what to do with the rest of the yarn. Not that I had bought extra, but an incident with the mailing service led to Lion Brand yarn sending me the same package twice in a row.
In addition to creating the blanket that I made in 2021, I had also used up some of the yarn by creating mini blankets for shelters who are working with Comfort for Critters. I had actually helped out with the social media marketing for the organization, and made a good amount of crochet blankets with my sister during the pandemic.
Still, I made more than enough yarn leftover to make a sweater.
In fact, after making this oversized chunky sweater, I still have three cakes lying in my yarn stash.
Maybe I should’ve made it bigger, but I’m too lazy to remake it as I created it from the bottom up.
I didn’t want to make a tutorial/pattern for this sweater, because I actually made this in a very stressful period of my life. And I just wanted a mindless project that I didn’t have to film the process for nor an intricate pattern that I need to calculate for.
Filming the process and recording the stitches for the written pattern is 2/3 the battle in getting these patterns published. It’s a lot of work getting these patterns out there, and since I’ve been seeing a trend of process videos on Youtube – I thought that I might as well film some snippets of the process.
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I’ve also been debating if I should try out making other people’s patterns, record that as a process video on Youtube, and write down my thoughts/mistakes/tips on the blog. I’ll make sure to include this thought in a comment for this video to see if you all like this idea!
I’ve been trying to keep a consistent update schedule for the Yarnalina blog and Youtube channel. Though I’m not sure how fast I can create a project to keep up the current one video a week momentum, I’ll be trying my best for sure. Since a good amount of these videos have been stocked up in my drafts for the longest time, be prepared to see projects that are not in the right season published on the Youtube channel and here on the Yarnalina blog.
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New goal: 15k by the end of 2023!
Pattern tips
For me, I used a 15mm knitting needle for the body of the yarn and 4mm for the ribbing cuffs all while working with three strands of Lion Brand Happy yarn. I used around 6 cakes.
I casted on a total of 85 stitches and connected it for the full round body, since I worked bottom up for this pattern. Then I created around 6-7 rows of a 2 by 2 ribbing (k2,p2), then I created an increase row by (k1,m1r). Then I knitted until I was satisfied with the length of the sweater before it hits where I want my armhole to start.
Then I divided the total number of stitches I had around the full sweater in half, before I started working on only half of the total number of stitches to create the back panel. Then I didn’t make any increase or decrease for the back panel, I just knitted till my desired full length of my back panel and casted off.
For the front panel, I created a v neck by decreasing on the sides by every two turns of the panel. I first divided the total number of stitches I have for the front panel in thirds, then worked only on the right and left panel while leaving the middle third empty for the neck hole. After I worked on the front panel where it lies at the same amount of rows for the back panel, I simply casted off and sewed the back and front panel together by the shoulders.
As for the sleeves, I casted on the stitches right at the armhole and just knitted the same way I did for the body itself. Then after I reached my desired length for the sleeves, I k1, k2tog around the sleeves before switching the knitting needle to the 4mm to finish up the ribbing cuffs and casting it off (same ribbing as the body panel ribbing).
I finished up the full pattern by using the 4mm needle to also create a 2 by 2 ribbing at the neck collar to give it a more polished finish!
CONCLUSION
And that is it to this easy beginner chunky knit sweater!
This is a really basic sweater pattern that you can basically use to create all different types of sweaters, whether it’s a cable knit or diamond sweater, the sky is the limit with these basic knit sweater patterns!
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