The Ready Steady Sweater is knitted flat, bottom up. The front, back and sleeves are knitted separately before they’re sewn or crocheted together. It has a boxy fit with a dropped shoulder.
Sizes 1-4 are worked straight without any armhole shaping. Sizes 5-9 have a bind off under the arm to make a modified dropped shoulder to make sure the sleeve doesn’t start too far down at the arm.

The pattern is knitted in a mix of intarsia and stranded colourwork. The waves are worked in intarsia, where each colour field has its own yarn bobbin. Some of the colour fields are then worked in a checkered stranded colourwork pattern with floats at the back.  

Measurements
Size: 1 (2) 3 (4) 5 (6) 7 (8) 9

Finished chest measurements (with approx 20 cm positive ease): 93 (107) 116 (129) 138 (147) 160 (169) 178 cm

Length: 49 (49,5) 50 (50,5) 51 (52) 52,5 (53) 54 cm

Yarn
Peruvian by Filcolana (100% Peruvian Highland wool; 100 m/50 g)

Colour A Blue: 5 (6) 6 (6) 6 (7) 8 (8) 8 balls
Colour B black: 4 (4) 4 (5) 5 (5) 6 (6) 6 balls
Colour C white: 4 (4) 4 (5) 5 (5) 6 (6) 6 balls

Needles

• Circular needle 4,5 mm - 40 and 80 cm (or preferred length for knitting flat)
• Circular needle 5,5 mm - 80 cm (or preferred length for knitting flat)

Other materials

• Stitch markers
• Stitch holder (or scrap yarn)
• Tapestry needle
• Crochet hook 4 mm (optional if you want to crochet seams instead of sewing)
• Scissors

Gauge
18 stitches x 23 rows = 10 x 10 cm (on 5.5
mm needles in pattern: k2 B, k2 C)

Note! When knitting the sweater, the
gauge is a bit different for the checkered
parts compared to the single colour fields.
This will even out when blocking.