Alston Flower Show hoodie

Fun hoodie, made to look as if offcuts of a large-flowered fabric had been randomly pieced together. It features intarsia, a rounded drawstring hood, a knit-in tubular pocket, saddle shoulders and square indented sleeves.

Modular construction, so no seams! Everything is pieced together on the go. Only the fold-over edge of the hood requires a few simple handstitches.

Also included is a pattern for a simple snood to keep out chill winds.

Skills required: knit, purl, standard incs and decs, pick up stitches, basic intarsia technique. The three-needle bind-off is explained in the pattern, also wrap-and-turn short rows.

Because all four sizes are fully and separately charted, the pattern has many pages - don't worry, you needn't print out everything!

Many thanks to Gerd Sycha for photographing.