RINGWOOD SHORT SLEEVE SWEATER KNITTING PATTERN IN SIRDAR LOVEFUL BIO BLEND

Fans of top-down in the round knitting will love this short sleeve sweater, a perfect piece for in-between seasons. Choose your favourite shade of Loveful...

Fans of top-down in the round knitting will love this short sleeve sweater, a perfect piece for in-between seasons. Choose your favourite shade of Loveful Bio Blend to knit this modern design, featuring short raglan sleeves accentuated with pretty shaping detail. Award-winning Loveful Bio Blend is the first hand-knitting yarn made with CiCLO® technology to help reduce the time microplastic pollution remains in the environment.

You will also need:1 4mm (UK8 – USA6) 80cm Circular Knitting Needle, 1 3¼mm (UK10 – USA3) 40cm Circular Knitting Needle, 1 set of 4mm (UK8 – USA6) Double Pointed Needles, Stitch Holders and Stitch Markers.

Technique: Knitting

Skill Level: Intermediate

Pattern Number: 10914

Size Guide

Yarn Facts

About This Yarn

Loveful Bio Blend The first hand knitting yarn to be made with award-winning CiCLO® technology. This revolutionary wool blend will knit, wear and wash, like all your tried and trusted Sirdar favourites. The innovation is at the end of its useful life when those CiCLO® treated fibres will behave more like the natural wool in the blend, reducing the time they persist in the environment.

Smooth and silky soft to knit or crochet, Loveful Bio Blend brings beautiful stitch definition to your makes. And despite its revolutionary sustainable qualities, it doesn’t ask you to compromise on supreme softness, beautiful design or cost to make.

What is it best for?

This double knitting yarn will make any double knitting project more sustainable. The pretty, trend-led colours are perfect for elegant womenswear and between-season makes when the wool adds a little warmth to lighter weight garments.

  • Composition

    20% Wool 80% CiCLO® Recycled Polyester

  • Tension

    22 stitches x 28 rows to 10 cm / 4"

  • Ball Weight

    100g In accordance with BS984

  • Yarn Weight

    Double Knitting

  • Yarn Length

    343 metres (375 yards) approx

  • Washing Instructions

    30 Machine Wash / Wool Cycle

  • Knitting Needle Size

    4.0mm (USA 6)

  • Crochet Hook Size

    4.0mm (USA F/5)