Handmade Wardrobe | Deep Moss Pot Sweater

Alex is wearing an oatmeal coloured wool sweater with a textured yoke pattern. She is standing next to her desk holding a cup of tea.

When it comes to shape, style and fit, Deep Moss Pot by Kari-Helene Rane ticks all the boxes for me when knitted in The Fibre Co. Lore.

The fit is loose without being shapeless or baggy and the yarn creates a wonderfully warm and durable fabric that’s comfortable for me to wear. Lore has great stitch definition so the twisted rib of the cuffs gives a beautiful finish and the textured yoke pops, adding something special to an otherwise every day sweater I’ll reach for over and over again.

Deep Moss Pot Sweater Knitting Pattern

The pattern is easy to follow and the beautiful texture is simple to achieve and requires no cabling.

This would be a great project for an adventurous beginner who is confident knitting, purling, slipping stitches and doing simple increases and decreases.

It will stretch your skills just a little and you’ll soon have techniques such as knitting through the back loop and knitting into the stitch below under your belt.

As someone who has been knitting sweaters for several years, I appreciated the simple yet still interesting to knit yoke. It kept my brain engaged without being challenging to knit or hard to follow the pattern. As this is a top down sweater, I happily knit round and round after finishing the yoke section and the body grew quickly in the airy, springy DK weight yarn.

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The Fibre Co. Lore Yarn

I’ve previously used The Fibre Co. Lore to knit the Dove Cottage sweater, which I finished in February 2019. Having worn that sweater often, I know the yarn will hold up with lots of wear. I’ve found this bouncy, woolly yarn keeps it’s shape well and does not pill too easily or noticeably for quite some time.

Everyones tolerance to the feel of yarn against their skin is different, but as a yarn that could be described as rustic, I find it very comfortable and will happily wear Lore next to my skin.

Lore is a woollen-spun 100% lambswool from the Romney sheep breed that is lovely and woolly. To me, I find Lore to be on the softer end of the spectrum when it comes to rustic, crunchy yarns and it’s very warm and light weight. If you’re interested in trying British, breed specific yarns, I highly recommend adding a skein to your stash to try.

With 4mm needles I got a gauge of 18 stitches per 4 inches which created a really nice fabric that I knew would be perfect for my sweater.

Fit and Modifications

To account for me having a a few less stitches per 4 inches than the pattern calls for, I decided to knit the smallest size but would block the finished piece to have 4-6 inches of ease. Looking at the number of stitches in the pattern when knitting the body I could see this was possible with my gauge.

I made no modification to the pattern and knit both the sleeves and body to the length specified. The sweater changed very little with blocking in terms of size. The stitches bloomed, the yoke stitches popped and the fabric became a little more drapey.

Looking at the schematic and the sweater laid out on the blocking boards, I decided to follow the measurements given for the size 34-36, and block my sweater to those measurements.

With a 39.5” finished chest circumference I knew I would have 4.5” of positive ease which is close to the 4” of ease written in the pattern.

Having soaked my sweater in wool wash for 30mins, I squeezed out as much excess water using a towel as I could, and laid my sweater to dry on a set of blocking matts. It required very little pinning or manipulating to block my sweater to all the measurements on the schematic and the wool was dry within 24hours.

Project Notes

Pattern: Deep Moss Pot by Kari-Helene Rane for The Fibre Co.

Yarn: 3 Skeins of The Fibre Co. Lore in Stable (note: I managed not to break into my 4th skein of yarn but I used every last bit of yarn in the 3rd cake)

Size: 30-32” (knitted) 34-36” (finished size)

Needles: 4.0 mm (US 6) Hiya Hiya Interchangeables

Started: 19th Sept 2020

Finished: 22nd April 2021

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