Dive into knitting and motif design with Andrea Rangel’s Design Stranded Colourwork: Sweaters course, available at the School of SweetGeorgia! It includes aspects such as factoring garment fit into your design, swapping motifs, calculating shaping, and more. And as a special part of this course, Andrea also created the Falling Leaves Sweater pattern — a beautiful pullover which we use for demonstration purposes through the course. The fit is cozy and relaxed, perfect for curling up with a cup of tea as the weather chills.
DESIGN STRANDED COLOURWORK: SWEATERS
Andrea Rangel’s earlier course, Design Stranded Colourwork: Hats, shares how rewarding small projects can be for exploring motif and colour combinations. (Read more about the Wildflower Breeze Hat project here.) Hats are a perfect gateway into designing, offering a manageable scale to test your ideas.
But what if you’re ready to take your design dreams from accessories to garments? In Design Stranded Colourwork: Sweaters, Andrea Rangel dives deeper into motif design, tackling garment-specific calculations, and discussing the considerations for creating sweaters across a range of sizes.
FALLING LEAVES SWEATER PATTERN
Andrea designed the stunning Falling Leaves sweater just for this course, which we use through the online lessons for demonstration purposes. But you don’t have to use this design! Feel free to work with one of the many motifs from Andrea’s stitch dictionaries, KnitOvation and AlterKnit, or sketch your own using the graph paper motif template included in the course workbook. It’s an ideal template for swapping out colour motifs to customize your project.
The yoke of this bottom-up pullover is adorned with aspen leaves, changing colours like they’re travelling through autumn. The fit is cozy and relaxed, perfect for a crisp fall walk or curling up with some knitting and a cup of tea.
LEARN MORE AT THE SCHOOL
We hope you’ll join us over at the School of SweetGeorgia to dive into learning colourwork design. We also have a range of knitting courses for knitters of all levels.
If you’d like to brush up on gauge, swatching or colourwork basics, we recommend checking out: Mastering Gauge with Tabetha Hedrick, Modern Colourwork Knitting with Felicia Lo, and Stranded Colourwork Mittens with Caitlin Shepherd.
Falling Leaves Sweater in SweetGeorgia BFL+Silk
Equipment
- 1 Circular Knitting Needles Size 4 / 3.5 mm and Size 6 / 4 mm, 32″ / 80 cm long
- 1 Circular Knitting Needles Size 4 / 3.5 mm and Size 6 / 4 mm, 60″ / 115 cm long *OPTIONAL
- 1 Double-Pointed Knitting Needles Size 4 / 3.5 mm and Size 6 / 4 mm *or small circular
- 1 Crochet Hook Size E-4 / 3.5 mm
Materials
- 8-15 skeins SweetGeorgia Yarns BFL+Silk DK in Hickory Smoke
- 1 skein each SweetGeorgia Yarns BFL+Silk DK in Amber Ale, Honey Gold, Boreal Forest
Instructions
- To knit the Falling Leaves Sweater, download a copy of the pattern which is available exclusively to SOS members at the School of SweetGeorgia.
- Using your circular needles and the MC yarn, cast on the number of stitches as listed in the pattern for your desired size working the tubular cast on as listed, then following with the setup row.
- Place marker and join for working in the round, knitting the ribbing and then main body directions.
- Follow all of the yoke directions starting with joining the sleeves onto one circular needle. Then follow the yoke shaping and colourwork directions.
- Finish with the ribbed neck band. Graft the underarm stitches from the sleeves to the underarm stitches from the body.
- Follow the instructions for weaving in all the ends and wet block the finished sweater matching the schematic measurements for your size. Lay flat to dry. Trim ends and enjoy!
Notes
Link to Pattern
Link to pattern
