MARTA Summer Shirt

The MARTA Summer Shirt is an airy, fluffy mohair shirt with 3 sleeve variations. Without sleeves it looks like an 80s-style shirt and can also be worn as a slipover with a T-shirt or blouse underneath. With short or 3/4 sleeves and a top or summer dress underneath, it keeps you warm on cool summer mornings or evenings.

Description

The MARTA Summer Shirt is an airy, fluffy mohair shirt with 3 sleeve variations. Without sleeves it looks like an 80s-style shirt and can also be worn as a slipover with a T-shirt or blouse underneath. With short or 3/4 sleeves and a top or summer dress underneath, it keeps you warm on cool summer mornings or evenings.

The MARTA Summer Shirt is a cropped mohair shirt with a boat neckline, knitted in one piece from the top down. It can be worked either sleeveless, with short sleeves, or with 3/4 sleeves. All necklines and edges are finished with an I-cord.

The shoulder yoke with the increases is worked flat at first, due to the short rows used to shape the back and front neckline. After that, the increases are worked in the round.

After the shoulder yoke, the front piece is worked first, and later the back piece, separately with decreases down to the armholes. Then both pieces are joined again in the round and finished together.

At the armholes, stitches are picked up and either a short sleeve is worked in the round, or the armhole is bound off immediately with an I-cord.

The detailed pattern includes a technical drawing for the short rows at the neckline and a detailed schematic with all measurements, as well as a blank schematic for notes or conversions.

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Top-Down, short rows, increases at the shoulder yoke

Details

SIZES / MEASUREMENTS

All instructions refer to size XS (S) M (L) XL (XXL)

The model in the photo, at a height of 164 cm and a bust measurement of 85 cm, is wearing the following MARTA Summer Shirts:

Silkhair held double in pink (085) and soft lilac (087), sleeveless, size XS

Brigitte No. 3 held single in lilac pink (07) and olive (14), striped, size M
Silkhair held double in pink (085) and purple (173) with a color gradient, size M

Measurements of the finished knitted garment:

Bust circumference: 100 (106) 114 (126) 134 (146) cm | Positive ease approx. 20–24 cm

Sleeve circumference: 44.5 (47.5) 49 (51) 54 (58.5) cm | Positive ease approx. 18.5–20 cm

Neckline width: 31.5 (31.5) 32 (32.5) 32.5 (33) cm

Half shirt width: 50 (53) 57 (63) 67 (73) cm

Half sleeve width: 21.5 (23) 24 (25) 26 (28.5) cm

Sleeve length (without I-cord): 9.5 cm

Total length (from shoulder, without I-cord): 51 (53.5) 56 (59) 61 (65.5) cm

Pattern and gauge

Main pattern: stockinette stitch (RS knit, WS purl); in the round knit every round

With 2 strands and 7 mm needles for right-side rows and (if needed) 6.5 mm for wrong-side rows; 7 mm needles for knitting in the round, or adjust needle size to obtain gauge in the main pattern:

10 x 10 cm = 13 stitches x 18 rows

wool and amount

Silkhair by Lana Grossa (70% Mohair (Superkid), 30% Silk, approx. 210 m/25 g)

Color: 1 strand pink (085) and 1 strand soft lilac (087)

Weight per 1 m when knitting with 2 strands held together: 0.24 g/m

Yarn requirements

Total yarn consumption for sizes XS (S) M (L) XL (XXL):

Variant 1 (sleeveless)

4 (4) 5 (5) 6 (6) balls
100 (100) 125 (125) 150 (150) g
840 (840) 1,050 (1,050) 1,260 (1,260) m

Variant 2 (short sleeve)

4 (5) 5 (6) 6 (7) balls
100 (125) 125 (150) 150 (175) g
840 (1,050) 1,050 (1,260) 1,260 (1,470) m

Variant 3 (3/4 sleeve)

5 (6) 6 (7) 7 (8) balls
125 (150) 150 (175) 175 (200) g
1,050 (1,260) 1,260 (1,470) 1,470 (1,680) m

ALTERNATIVE YARN SUGGESTIONS

Alternative yarn suggestions

(1) Any mohair-silk yarn with a similar yardage (approx. 200–210 m/25 g)
(2) Brigitte No. 3 by Lana Grossa (40% Mohair, 37% Virgin Wool, 23% Polyamide, approx. 100 m/25 g) – worked single strand (0.25 g/m)
(3) Manada by Pascuali (45% Superkid Mohair, 25% Mulberry Silk, 15% Virgin Wool (Organic Merino), 15% Yak Wool, approx. 200 m/25 g) – worked with 2 strands (0.25 g/m)
Yarns without mohair:
(4) Midnatssol by Camarose (54% Alpaca, 36% Tencel, 10% Virgin Wool, 200 m/25 g) – worked with 2 strands (0.25 g/m)
(5) Seta Suri by Lana Grossa (69% Suri Alpaca, 31% Silk, approx. 212 m/25 g) – worked with 2 strands (0.24 g/m)

Yarn alternative 1: Brigitte No. 3 by Lana Grossa (100m/25g)
	XS	S	M	L	XL	XXL
Variant 1 (sleeveless)
m	420	420	525	525	630	630
balls	4-5	4-5	5-6	5-6	6-7	6-7
Variant 2 (short sleeve)
m	420	525	525	630	630	735
balls	4-5	5-6	5-6	6-7	6-7	7-8
Variant 3 (3/4 sleeve)
m	525	630	630	735	735	840
balls	5-6	6-7	6-7	7-8	7-8	8-9

NEEDLES

Circular needle 6 mm for the provisional cast-on, the 1st row, and all short rows at the beginning of the neckline, 7 mm for the main pattern:

Short (10 cm) needle tips 5, 6 and 7 mm, 20–35 cm cable

Long (13 cm) needle tips 6.5 and 7 mm, 80–100 cm cable

Knitting needle 5 mm for the I-cord

Total of 8 large stitch markers for 6 or 7 mm needles:

4x color 1 – shoulder yoke increases
4x color 2 – shoulder stitches

2 removable stitch markers

Crochet hook 4–5 mm for the cast-on

Extra cables or waste yarn to hold stitches

Tapestry needle

Provisional cast-on with crochet hook

Knit and purl stitches

Left- and right-leaning increases worked flat in rows

Right-leaning decreases

Short rows using double stitch (German Short Rows)

Picking up stitches from a knitted piece (sleeves)

I-cord bind-off

SUPPLIES