Summerlite 4ply
By Rowan
$8.75
This luxe cotton yarn is perfect for Amy Christoffers’s Shakerag Top from MDK Field Guide No. 6: Transparency. Bonus: it’s easy on the yarn budget. How many skeins will you need? Scroll down.
Specs & Details
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The Shakerag Top is beloved by knitters because it’s fun to knit and a breeze to wear. It looks good on everyone, and that’s a fact.
Designer Amy Christoffers deployed a neat trick to create its subtle tone-on-tone stripes: you alternate between holding the yarn double and holding it single. Here’s how many skeins of Summerlite 4ply you’ll need for each size.
Size S (finished bust measurement 39”): 6 skeins.
Sizes M, L (finished bust measurement 44”, 48”): 7 skeins.
Size XL (finished bust measurement 53”): 8 skeins.
Size 2XL (finished bust measurement 57.5”): 9 skeins.
Size 3XL (finished bust measurement 62.5”): 10 skeins
By the way, in real life, the Shakerag Top is not transparent, as it appears in the artfully backlit photo above.
Here’s Kay’s original Shakerag Top.
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And here’s Ann’s marled version. (She used two colors for the double-stranded stripes and one for the single-stranded stripes.)
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We can’t wait to make Summerlite 4ply versions of our beloved Shakerag Tops.
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