Cross Country Pullover in Juniper Moon Farm Herriot Great - Downloadable PDF

Cross Country Pullover by Joann Rogers – Knitting Pattern Summary

The Cross Country Pullover is a beautifully designed chunky-weight knitting pattern by Joann Rogers, part of The Yorkshire Collection. This cozy pullover sweater blends vintage-inspired style with a contemporary sensibility, featuring a wide collar that references classic knitwear traditions and subtle meandering cables that give the finished garment a thoroughly modern look. Whether worn on a woodland hike or layered up beside a fire, this pullover is designed to become a wardrobe staple — a rustic classic knitted in luxurious, cloud-soft yarn.

What Is Being Made

This pattern produces a pullover sweater worked in the round in sizes XS, S, M, L, 1X, 2X, and 3X. The sample shown in the pattern is knitted in size M. Finished bust measurements range from 33 inches (84 cm) up to 54 inches (137 cm), and finished lengths range from approximately 21¼ inches to 26½ inches (54–67 cm), making this pattern accessible to a wide range of body types. The design is part of the Yorkshire Collection, a group of patterns with a distinctly textural, heritage-influenced aesthetic.

Yarn and Materials

The pattern calls for Juniper Moon Farm Herriot Great, a chunky-weight yarn, in colorway #103 Caramel. Herriot Great is described in the pattern as luxurious and soft as a cloud, making it an ideal choice for a garment meant to be worn close to the body. Depending on the size being knitted, the pattern requires between 7 and 11 hanks of this yarn — 7 hanks for sizes XS and S, 8 hanks for M and L, 9 hanks for 1X, 10 hanks for 2X, and 11 hanks for 3X.

Needles and Notions

Two needle sizes are used throughout the pattern:

• US 9 (5.5 mm) — 24-inch circular needles and double-pointed needles, used as the primary needle for achieving gauge
• US 8 (5 mm) — 24-inch circular needles and double-pointed needles, used for ribbing or finishing sections

Additional notions required include stitch markers in two colors (A and B), a cable needle, scrap yarn, and a tapestry needle for finishing. The use of two distinct marker colors is a helpful organizational technique that allows knitters to distinguish between different types of markers — for example, separating cable panel markers from round markers — which keeps complex stitch patterns easier to track.

Gauge

The pattern gauge is 17½ stitches and 24 rows to 4 inches (10 cm) in Stockinette stitch, worked in the round on the larger US 9 needles. Achieving accurate gauge is especially important in a fitted pullover like this one, as even small variations can significantly affect the finished bust and length measurements across the wide size range offered.

Techniques Used

The Cross Country Pullover is knitted primarily in the round using circular and double-pointed needles, which is a common and efficient method for constructing seamless sweaters. Key techniques used throughout the pattern include:

• Working in the round — the body and sleeves are constructed circularly, eliminating the need for seaming and producing a smooth, continuous fabric
• Cable knitting — the signature design element of this pullover, involving the use of a cable needle to cross groups of stitches over one another, creating the characteristic twisted rope-like or braided visual effect
• Cable panel shifting — a more advanced technique in which the cable panels are gradually moved inward toward the center of the pullover over the course of multiple rounds, creating the meandering quality described in the pattern introduction
• M1 (Make One) increases — a nearly invisible increase method worked by lifting the horizontal strand between two stitches and knitting into the back of it
• SSK (Slip, Slip, Knit) decreases —