Christmas Pudding

Knitted in the round, this delicious looking festive jumper decorated with a sprig of holly, features all-over fruity bobbles and an icing yoke, worked from a chart. It is worked in the round from the bottom up to the underarms. Sleeves are worked separately in the round and then joined to the body to work the yoke. Techniques include knit and purl stitches, working in the rnd, stranded colour work from a chart, bobble stitches, increases, decreases and grafting (Kitchener st).

This pattern is in multiple sizes to fit a chest/bust from 81cm/32in up to 127cm/50in.

Pattern includes a full list of abbreviations, schematic, colour chart and a printable page for your notes.

Yarn

Stylecraft Special DK

3 (3: 3: 4: 4) x 100g in 'Gingerbread'

2 (2: 2: 2: 2) x 100g in 'Dark Brown'

2 (2: 2: 2: 3) x 100g in 'Cream'

Tension

22 sts and 30 rows to 10cm/4in over st st using 4mm/US 6 needles working in the rnd.

Most DK yarns will work with this pattern, provided it can be knitted to the stated tension.