Oras

If you thought I had enough of colorwork as Strands of Joy was published you were wrong.

What: Oras / Own pattern

How: Circular needles 3.0 and 3.25 mm

From: Wetterhoff Sivilla, 226 g

Stranded knitting is the type of thing that once you're hooked, you're hooked for good. So there will be plenty of new colorwork designs coming up right now and in the future.

At the end of summer, I finally got to visit Wetterhoff house in Hämeenlinna and I promised to design something for their lovely wool silk blend, Sivilla. Let me present, Oras.

This is the cutest little sweater worked seamlessly top down, as always. The design has a round yoke, close-fitting sleeves and a cropped hem with no waist shaping - my favorite kind of sweater.

Oras is adorned with sweet little sprouts and flowers all over. The sweater is worked in two colors and since it's all-over colorwork with no long floats, I'd say this is pretty beginner friendly when it comes to stranded knitting. The all-over colorwork makes it easy to keep gauge and I find this to be a relaxing knit.

I made my sample in Sivilla with two colors but you can check out my wonderful test knitters on Instagram as they've worked some stunning multi-color versions too.

The pattern comes with sizes XS-5XL with finished bust circumference of 34.75-66.75''. You can find the pattern on all my platforms: Ravelry, PayHip and Lovecrafts. On Rav and PayHip, you can use the code SPRINGTIME to get 15% discount until the end of the week.