So excited to share my newest sweater pattern: Agate Cove Pullover! The traditional yoke color-work sweater is given a twist by using a three color slip stitch pattern. This requires only one color per round, yet looks much more complicated. I used some of my favorite colors of Briggs and Little Regal – a warm worsted weight yarn from nearby New Brunswick Canada.
You can read all about this pattern on the pattern page.
I had a lot of fun knitting this sweater – and so did my testers. I want to share some of their beautiful sweaters with you. All names are their Ravelry names.
GrankaG’s first Agate Cove Pullover
GrankaG’s second Agate Cove Pullover
GrankaG enjoyed the knitting of this pattern so much that she jumped right in and knit a second sweater when she finished. She used the most beautiful yarn, hand dyed with Japanese local herbs from Indie Dyer Chihiro Nojima in Nasu north of Tokyo, and she decided to use more than three colors in the yoke pattern – striking!
Ulaninen’s Agate Cove Pullover
From a different part of the world (this was a real international test knit!) is this beautiful sweater knit up by Swedish knitter Ulaninen. She used Ístex Plötulopi – Unspun Icelandic wool for her light but warm version.
ByeBrookFarm’s Agate Cove Pullover
ByeBrookFarm used her handspun from her own Icelandic sheep that she raises on her farm in Northern Maine. The brown and cream are the natural colors of the sheep (named snowcap and Heather) and the other color is the brown over dyed with Cushing’s “mulberry.
This sweater seemed to inspire hand dyed yarn color combinations! Deturner from Texas used natural plus two rich colors from The Louisiana Yarn Guys who dye to order so you can get just the amount you need!
Autumn colors were the inspiration for Quey’s project. She used three shades of Malabrigo Rios to make her sweater for Fall in the North Carolina mountains .
Lucias in Norway chose to make her sweater with a cream color yarn for the body and put all her color in the yoke. She used fingering weight Sandness Garn Alpakka Silke and doubled it to get the gauge and make a drapey and elegant oversized sweater.
See even more versions of this versatile sweater by checking out the projects linked to the pattern on Ravelry.
