Flor de Jerez
Flor de Jerez - the cocktail, is a delicate shaken drink featuring apricot, sherry, and rum. It’s lovely and complex when served, but it’s surprisingly simple to make, just like this pullover.
Flor de Jerez - the sweater, was designed to highlight the subtle differences in the deep shades of apricot and pumpkin in this yarn, using simple contrasting textures - stockinette, garter, ribs, and cables.
The patterns are easily memorized and quick to knit, but the different motifs make for a gorgeous and eye-catching combination. It’s detailed, but the lines are classic and flattering, so it doesn’t feel fussy.
Knit from the bottom up, cable and lace panels are centered on a garter stitch body, accented by ribs in both the panel and down the sides of the sweater. A small difference in gauge between cable and garter panels creates a subtle curve at the hem, and the ribbing transitions into the cable panel with a little detail right there to highlight that shaped area. In the yoke, simple raglan shaping leads up to a wide, shallow ribbed collar.
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Yarn: Valley Superwash DK Hand Dyed by Manos del Uruguay (100% Merino wool; 274yds/251m per 3.53oz/100g skein). Sample shown in Bittersweet, one of the colors I designed for WEBS.
If substituting yarn, I suggest a yarn without too much variegation, so the nature of the different panels is visible. I also think this would work beautifully in a solid yarn, a tweed, or a natural wooly fiber.
Gauge: 22sts/28rows per 4”/10cm in stockinette.
Needles: US 5/3.75mm, US 4/3.5mm
Sizes:
35.75(38.5,41.5,44.25,47.25)(50.25,53,56)“
91(98,105.5,112.5,120)(127.5,134.5,142.25)cm
For the silhouette shown, I recommend choosing the size that gives you about 4”/10 cm of ease, but this sweater would also work with less ease if desired.
Yardage:
1300(1400,1500,1600,1700)(1800,1900, 2000)yds
1190(1280,1375,1465,1555)(1645,1740,1830)m