Treit
When I came across this project it immediately struck me as a great little summer tee … an it would be PERFECT made with Quince & Co Sparrow. Treit is a light tee, worked bottom up, with a cropped length and leafy lace yoke. After a few rounds of twisted rib at the collar, the cropped body (which can be knit longer if desired) is knitted to the underarms. Two sleeve caps are knitted, body and sleeves are joined, and the yoke is worked from a lace chart to the neck. There are optional instruction to raise the back of the neck neck with short rows (a nice feature for more experienced knitters, and great that it isn’t necessary for those who need to keep thins KISSasble (you remember K.I.S.S., right? I refer to the sage life advice, “Keep It Simple Stupid”, not the 70’s band with the black & white getups.)
P.S. Quince & Co Sparrow is ON SALE until the end of July!
Suggestions
A. If you want to reproduce the ‘tweedy’ texture, use one of ‘Marled’ colours (they are marked in the drop-down menu of colours on our site). If you aren’t so keen on it, that’s cool too, just use one of the regular colours for a more refined finish.
B. I would DEFINITELY suggest the use a lifeline when knitting this project. Linen is slippey, and lace is lace, so do yourself a favour and give yourself a safety-net. If you are not already familiar with this concept, now’s the time to add this very, very handy little hack to your “I wish I knew that BEFORE ….” life list.
Size
- Finished bust circumference: 33 (35, 38, 41, 45, 48, 51, 54, 57, 60) inches or 84 (89, 96.5, 104, 114.5, 122, 129.5, 137, 145, 152.5) cm
- The pattern recommends you choose the next size up from your normal bust size, but linen is very stretchy, so if you plan to wear this top over a tank or cami you may want to take that into consideration and not size-up.
Materials
- Quince & Co Sparrow: 4 (4, 5, 5, 6, 6, 7, 7 8, 9) skeins
- 3.75mm/US5 – 24″ & 29″circular (or longer for larger sizes) longer and below gauge-size circular needles of
- 3.25mm/US3 (or 3mm) – 16″ & 29″circular (or longer for larger sizes)
- 3.75mm/US5 – 12″ circular needles (or double pointed needles)
- 3.25mm/US3 (or 3mm) – 12″ circular needles (or double pointed needles)
- Stitch markers in two colours
- Waste yarn (for putting stitches on hold)
- thin waste yarn to use as a lace “lifeline”
- Pattern
Sweater Quantities
To make life easier, here’s a list of colours that we have in relevant sweater quantities … well, at least at the time of publishing … once it goes live it’s in the hands of a higher power (the yarn gods?):
- Butternut
- Eclipse (first 2 sizes)
- Fen
- Frond MARL (up to 6th size)
- Fundi
- Little Fern (first 2 sizes)
- Lunar
- Maize
- Mineral MARL
- Rille MARL
- Rosa Mundi MARL
- Sans
- Surf MARL 253 (up to 8th size)
- Venice 218 (first 2 sizes)
- Viburnum (first 2 sizes)
