Pattern PDF download for knitting your very own Rune Sweater!! 

(this is a PDF version only, no physical product included.) Pattern available for single purchase. No sharing or selling of copies. 

This is one of our favorite “first sweater” projects to knit. This sweater uses the basic raglan top down construction, adding just a little colorwork embellishment on the sleeves. Keep it at the current length, or add a bit more before the ribbing without any issue or much change. This is a great sweater to wear with skinny jeans, as well as a layering piece.

Details :

(Smaller needle) Body: US size 5 / 3.75 mm circular needles between 16 and 40” / 40 and 100 cm circular needles to be worked in the round. Sleeves: 9” / 23 cm circular needle, DPNs or preferred method of small circumference knitting.

(Larger needle) Body: US size 8 / 5 mm circular needles between 16 and 40" / 40 and 100 cm to be worked in the round. Sleeves: 9” / 23 cm circular needle, DPNs or preferred method of small circumference knitting. 

(Since the collar can be worked with a 16"/40 cm circular, as the knitting grows, you may want to transition to 24"/60 cm, then 32"/80 cm, then 40"/100 cm circular needle to be worked in the round.) 

(Or needles to obtain gauge)

Gauge :  16  sts and 24 rows = 4" / 10 cm worked in stockinette in the rnd on Larger Body Needles, after blocking.

Sizes : 1 (2, 3, 4, 5) [6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11]

Finished Bust Circumference Measurements :

37.5 (42.5, 44.5, 49, 52)[56, 60, 62.5, 66.5, 69.5, 73.5]”/95.5 (108, 113, 124.5, 132)[142, 152.5, 159, 169, 176.5, 187] cm

Recommended finished ease is 8-10”/  of positive ease. Sample shown is on a size 2, with 10” positive ease.

Yarn: 

MC: Sport Weight: 731 (806, 847, 935, 1019)[1106, 1175, 1239, 1304, 1354, 1418] yards / 668 (737, 774, 855, 931)[1011, 1074, 1133, 1192, 1238, 1296] meters OR 3 (3, 3, 3, 4)[4, 4, 4, 5, 5, 5) skeins

CC: Sport Weight:  37 (37, 37, 43, 43)[43, 43, 49, 49, 49, 49] yards / 34 (34, 34, 39, 39)[39, 39, 45, 45, 45, 45] meters OR 1 skein 

Yarn Used :

MC: Dragon Hoard Yarn Nixie Sport Weight in Dorcas Colorway. 328 yards/300 meters per 100 grams

CC: Dragon Hoard Yarn Nixie Sport Weight in Fire Vixen Colorway; 328 yards/300 meters per 100 grams. 

Notions :

Stitch markers (4 total; 1 unique for BOR, 3 to mark the raglans) ; scissors; row counter (suggested); darning needle to weave in ends; waste yarn or stitch holders to hold your sleeve stitches.

Notes :

This raglan-style sweater is knit top down, using circular needles worked in the round. The sleeves are put on holders, and the rest of the body is knit first. 

I recommend, before starting this knit, you take out an oversized sweater that you enjoy the fit of, and measure across the front of it from underarm to underarm to determine the size (multiply the measurement by 2 to get the full circumference of your sweater). I would then take a look at the finished garment measurements and determine what size you would like to knit.