Gladiolus

I know, I know, it's yet another colorwork yoke but it's just so darn cute.

What: Gladiolus / Own pattern

How: Circular needle 3.75 mm

From: John Arbon Textiles Alpaca Supreme

A while back, I was contacted by John Arbon Textiles on whether I might be interested to design something in their new sport weight Alpaca Supreme base. And as you can see, I very much was. I fell in love with the lovely colorways and was instantly inspired to work a three-color sweater where the background color changes at the bottom of the yoke.

Gladiolus was named after a flower as the yoke is adorned with adorable flower petal pattern. It starts out with two contrast colors and the background color changes into the main color at the end of the colorwork pattern. The best part is that this beautiful effect doesn't require a single three-color round so it's all easy knitting.

I love combining colorwork with corrugated ribbing. It gives a sweater a truly neat finishing touch. The cuffs of the sweater have one petal motif on them before moving onto the corrugated ribbing. As always, the design is worked top-down so you'll get to start with the best part.

Gladiolus has a straight body with no waist shaping but the pattern does come with instructions for an optional bust dart which I recommend to work in case you have a fuller bust. This shaping makes sure the front of the sweater doesn't rise higher than the back.

You can use the code FLWRS to get a 15% introductory discount on Gladiolus until November 14th. The code works on annajohannadesigns.com, Ravelry and PayHip.

And that's not all as the lovely folks over at John Arbon Textiles are offering a 10% discount on Alpaca Supreme with the code GLADIOLUS. This code is valid through November 13th.