Isadora Sweater

The Isadora Sweater is a showstopper with delicate and distinguished bishop sleeves. The lace is a six stitch repeat that makes for easy knitting while still creating a memorable finished sweater. It is knit as a top down raglan and in-the-round with seamless construction. The suggested positive ease is 2-6 inches (5-15 cm).

Yarn

The Isadora Sweater is knit in fingering weight yarn held together with lace weight mohair. The sample used Isager Alpaca 2 (50% alpaca/50% wool, 50g = 273 yds) and Isager Silk Mohair (75% kid mohair/25% silk, 25g = 232 yds). Or DK weight.

Size

Sizes 1 (2, 3, 4) (5, 6, 7) (8, 9, 10) for a finished bust circumference of 32 (36, 40, 44) (48, 52, 56) (60, 64, 68) inches or 81 (91, 102, 112) (123, 132, 142) (152, 162, 173) cm.

Difficulty

This pattern is rated at an intermediate level. You will need to know how to track a lace chart (the chart is both charted and written), German Short Rows, decreases (k2tog), increases (M1L, M1R), and Italian Bind Off.