Daisy sweater test call
🌸 CALL FOR TESTERS – #Daisysweater 🌸
✨ multiple collar and cuff finishes ✨
Experienced beginner / intermediate knitters wanted!
📅 **Test Schedule**
Start: August 16th
End: November 1st (11 weeks)
Official release: December in TRICOTE magazine. @trioctele mag
🧶 **Lace stitch and ribbing swatch**
22 stitches x 32 rows – 4 mm needles
🧶 **Yarn (2 strands held together)**
**A fleur de peau**
– 1 strand FINGERING CALISTA (MCN) – Chandails et Cardigans (400 m / 100 g) or ELYRA or ISEA or a similar meterage of DK yarn (KASMERA or ISEA DK)
– 1 strand LACE ISOLDA (mohair & silk) – Chandails et Cardigans Yarn (420 m / 50 g)
📏 **Sizes**
0 1 2 (3 4 5 6) [7 8 9 10] (11 12 13 14)
For a finished bust circumference:
85 94 101 (108 115 122 130) [137 144 152 159] (166 174 181 188) cm
📦 **Total meterage**
875 930 995 (1065 1115 1170 1235) [1285 1360 1410 1475] (1520 1585 1635 1680) m for each yarn.
Which means:
3 3 3 (3 3 3 4) [4 4 4 4] (4 5 5 5) skeins of each yarn (except DK).
✨ **Recommended ease**
Between 15 and 25 cm depending on the desired effect
Ease of the shown models (unblocked): 30 cm ease (I wanted a very oversized fit)
📩 **Selection**
Only selected individuals will receive an email by the end of the week.
Please only apply if you can complete the test, ideally the body, finishes, and 1 sleeve.
It is essential to start from the beginning to finish on time.
🪡 **Pattern Construction**
Knitted flat then in the round from the armhole, top-down.
**Technical details:**
– no difficulty except for the lace stitch, but it's yarn overs and ssk and k2tog
🧷 **Techniques Used**
Lace stitch and choice of standard 1x1 ribbing or twisted ribbing, 2x2 ribbing finishes, Long Tail Cast-on and Provisional Cast-on, tubular or Italian bind off for 2x2 (Video), decreases, increases (M1L/M1R).
**Possible options:**
– collar: simple, folded double, or turtleneck
– sleeve cuffs: folded or simple
🧵 **Materials**Circular needles:
– 4 mm
– 3.5 mm for finishes
🎁 **GOOD DEAL**
-10% on my yarn if you choose to use it for the test ❤
And to thank you:
if the test is completed, you can choose between:
✨ -20% on my patterns
or
✨ -10% on my yarn for your next purchase
There will also be 2 selected individuals who will receive free yarn sponsored by MAJO GARN, and the sweater must be fully completed as it will be sent to the magazine for the photoshoot (shipping costs reimbursed) and then returned to you.
Please specify if interested.
📩 **How to apply?**
**Already registered on my site?**
→ Simply reply with:
– your size(s)
– your bust circumference (for verification if not provided in previous tests, as well as desired ease)
– your yarn choice (stash or Chandails et Cardigans or 2 choices if Majo Garn)
**Not yet registered?**
→ answer the questionnaire below as well as the information mentioned
🌞 So, ready for the challenge?