updated 23 Mar 2022

My pictures of this suck bc it's currently stuck in a storage unit 1300 miles away, this will improve one day.

I used Lion Brand Mandela Glitter yarn for the body + cascade superwash sport for the cuffs.

So essentially, I wanted a cardigan with a square body, and started from there. I used worsted weight yarn on an F hook (I think) to make 42 4-inch granny squares for the body + 12 more for the arms.

The back is a 4x4 square of 16 granny squares connected with a slip stitch, and the front is 2 panels of 8 each, zipped together in the middle.

For the arms (12 granny squares), I crocheted an extra 2 rows on 4 of the squares, an extra 1 row on 4 of the squares, and left the remaining four as 4x4 squares.

I slip stitched these together into 2 tubes that tapered from widest to narrowest.

This…is where things got a bit more complicated. I like knitting better as well, so I picked up stitches with a knitting needles and just…knitted on ribbing at the sleeves and hem.

So…we're still left with the yoke to complete at this point. I basically just did a mock granny square stitch and crocheted back and forth along the entire length of the yoke. I put markers where the sleeves and body met, and decreased one DC or chain each row at that place. When it reached the width I wanted, I stopped crocheting and knitted on a lil collar in 1x1 rib. I was going for a bomber jacket look, so I slip stitched the last row onto the other side of the stitches I'd picked up from the crocheted edge.

(This sounds complicated and kind of bananas, maybe one day I will write it up better.)

After this, I'm still left with the bottom, the cuffs, and the collar. I believe I used a size F crochet hook and a size 5 knitting needle, but essentially I just went back around with the knitting needle and picked up a stitch from each crochet stitch, the knitted one by one rib until the cuffs were long enough, then bound off.

This could've been a sweater, but I sewed the zipper in between the middle rows of granny squares in the front. There's a video of this somewhere, but I don't have it right now.

CO 130-ish sts

Knit circular till separating for sleeves, 1 inch of 1x1 ribbing followed by stockinette.

Color shifts take place over 9 rows. When switching from Color A to Color B (or C, D, whatever):

1. End color A row.

2. Color B row

3. Color B row

4. Color A row

5. Color A row

6. Color B row

7. Color B row

8. Color A row

9. Color A row

10. Color B row + beginning of Color B section.

For sleeves, basically just made ‘em flat, they weren’t wide enough though, so I had to crochet a few rows of DC along the edge before using crochet to slip stitch the sleeves into tubes. Same stripe pattern was used on the sleeves.

For the neckline, I just picked up stitches w/ a slightly smaller needle and did K1P1 ribbing till I was utterly sick of it. Then I cast off, wove in ends, and wore it.

Yarn is Caron simply soft in:

• Watermelon

• Black

• White

• Soft Green

• Neon pink

I’m not sure how much was used in total, because this was improvised in the woods with scrap yarn someone else didn’t want…I’d guess probably less than 2 full skeins were used here, but it’s hard to say.

I used size 10 1/2 circular needles, and put a stitch marker at the beginning and halfway point of the row. When I had about 10 inches of tube, I split it into two flat sections with no shaping.

When I got to the top, I flipped it inside out and used a crochet hook to slip stitch the cast-off edges together, leaving a head-sized hole in the middle to pick stitches up from.

P sure I stuck a couple 2-stitch increases into the sleeves (at the 1/4, 1/3, and 1/2 points), but you don’t have to tbh.