A little bit little bit of colorwork, whether or not it’s stripes, slip stitches, working with a multicolored yarn, stranded knitting, intarsia or some other methodology, provides much more curiosity and enjoyable to a knitting challenge.

When it’s allover colorwork, that’s even higher. And these daring stranded colorwork flowers simply seem like a lot enjoyable and have me considering of spring (which actually is simply across the nook for us within the Northern Hemisphere, proper?).

The Alyssum Sweater by Tomomi Yoshimoto makes use of DK weight yarn (or you’ll be able to strive worsted weight if you will get gauge with it) and encompasses a subject of white flowers, although after all you’ll be able to sew them in any coloration you need. White is straightforward as a result of nearly any coloration seems nice with white, from pastels to brilliant colours, even grey and black.

This sweater is definitely a heavier weight model of her Drawing sweater (additionally obtainable on Ravelry), which makes use of sport weight yarn and the colorwork isn’t fairly over the entire sample. It additionally has raglan shaping, whereas the Alyssum has a round yoke design. It feels like Drawing is a bit more troublesome to get began, as a result of among the colorwork is labored flat and it begins with brief rows, however when you get previous the start half it sounds prefer it will get simpler.

The Alyssum has all of the colorwork completed within the spherical, in order that makes it just a little simpler. However both method this sweater is a magnificence and appears like it could be a enjoyable problem to knit.

Again to Alyssum, it’s obtainable in 5 sizes, starting from a chest measurement of 52.5 inches to 68.25 inches. The smallest dimension is listed as M-L, nevertheless it doesn’t point out how a lot optimistic ease is supposed to be included, so you’ll be able to decide the scale that you simply’re most snug with.

Yow will discover each patterns on Ravelry.

[Photo: Tomomi Yoshimoto.]