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JUMPER – SHORT OVERVIEW OF THE PIECE

The body is worked in the round with circular needle, bottom up as far as the armholes. The sleeves are worked in the round with double pointed needles, bottom up. The body and sleeves are placed on the same circular needle and are continued in the round with circular needle/double pointed needles to finished length.
Each rib can be worked either with knit 2/ purl 2 or knit 1/ purl 1. The neck can be worked single or double. Read KNITTING TIP!

BODY

Cast on 168-172-176-184-200 stitches with circular needle size 3 mm and medium grey/dark grey. Work RIB-1 in the round – read description above.
After the rib, knit 1 round with off-white where you decrease 12-16-8-16-20 stitches evenly spaced – read DECREASE/INCREASE TIP = 156-156-168-168-180 stitches.
Change to circular needle size 4 mm. Insert 1 marker thread at the beginning of the round and 1 marker thread after 78-78-84-84-90 stitches. Allow the threads to follow your work onwards; they mark the sides of the body.
Work A.1 in the round (= 26-26-28-28-30 repeats of 6 stitches, start with the first stitch in A.1 so that there is a medium grey/dark grey «square» from A.1 on each side of the body). REMEMBER THE KNITTING TENSION!
When the piece measures 26-28-30-32-34 cm, cast off for the armholes as follows: Start at the beginning of the round and cast off 3 stitches, work 72-72-78-78-84 stitches with pattern as before (= front piece), cast off 6 stitches (3 stitches on each side of the marker thread), work 72-72-78-78-84 stitches with pattern as before (= back piece) and cast off the last 3 stitches. Cut the strand, lay the piece to one side and work the sleeves.

SLEEVE

Cast on 36-36-40-40-44 stitches with double pointed needles size 3 mm and medium grey/dark grey. Work RIB-1 in the round.
After the rib knit 1 round with off-white where you increase 0-0-2-2-4 stitches evenly spaced – remember DECREASE/INCREASE TIP = 36-36-42-42-48 stitches.
Change to double pointed needles size 4 mm. Insert 1 marker thread at the beginning of the round and allow the thread to follow your work onwards; it will be used when increasing mid-under sleeve.
Work A.1 in the round (= 6-6-7-7-8 repeats of 6 stitches, start with the first stitch in A.1 so that there is a medium grey/dark grey «square» from A.1 mid-under sleeve).
When the piece measures 6-6-7-7-8 cm, increase 2 stitches mid-under sleeve – read INCREASE TIP. Increase like this every 1½-1½-1½-2-2 cm a total of 6 times in all sizes, then every 2-2½-3-3-3½ cm a total of 6 times in all sizes = 60-60-66-66-72 stitches.
Work until the sleeve measures approx. 28-32-36-39-43 cm but adjust so you finish on the same round as on the body before stitches were cast off for the armholes – this is important so the patterns match when the sleeves and body are worked together.
The next round is worked as follows: Cast off 3 stitches, work 54-54-60-60-66 stitches with pattern as before and cast off the last 3 stitches. Cut the strand, lay the piece to one side and work the other sleeve in the same way.
Then work the yoke as described below.

YOKE

Place the sleeves on the same circular needle size 4 mm as the body where stitches were cast off for the armholes (without working the stitches) = 252-252-276-276-300 stitches on the needle.
Insert 1 marker thread in each transition between front/back pieces and sleeves = 4 marker threads; allow the threads to follow your work onwards, they are used when decreasing to raglan.
Start the round on the back piece in the transition between sleeve and body and work A.1 in the round as before, but 1 stitch on each side of the 4 marker threads is always worked in off-white.
When you have worked 2-4-4-6-2 rounds after the sleeves and body were placed together, decrease to RAGLAN – read description above.
Decrease to raglan every 2nd round a total of 20-20-22-22-25 times in height.
After the last decrease there are 92-92-100-100-100 stitches left on the needle (32-32-34-34-34 stitches between the marker threads on the front/back pieces and 14-14-16-16-16 stitches between the marker threads on the sleeves). The piece measures approx. 15-16-17-18-19 cm from where the body and sleeves were placed together. Now work single/double neck as desired and as described below. The jumper measures approx. 44-47-50-53-56 cm from the shoulder down.

SINGLE NECK

Knit 1 round with off-white where you decrease 12-8-16-12-12 stitches evenly spaced = 80-84-84-88-88 stitches on the needle. Change to short circular needle size 3 mm and work RIB-2 in the round – read description above. When the rib is finished, cast off with medium grey/dark grey and knit over knit and purl over purl – read CASTING-OFF TIP!

DOUBLE NECK

Knit 1 round with off-white where you decrease 4-0-8-4-4 stitches evenly spaced = 88-92-92-96-96 stitches on the needle. Change to short circular needle size 3 mm and work RIB-3 in the round – read description above. When the rib is finished, cast off with off-white and knit over knit and purl over purl – read CASTING-OFF TIP; cast off with yarn overs so the edge is not tight!
Fold the neck in towards the wrong side and sew down neatly with small stitches making sure the seam is not tight.