need a knitting pattern for a mans plain jumper using huge needles and chunky wool pretty please

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cant find anything online, he is very specific! wants plain jumper, will tolerate rib around the neck/cuffs/bottom but no fancy stuff. needs to be chunky wool, large needles and easy cos im quite new to knitting! am willing to pay if anyone has one they are finished with, or would be v grateful if you could point me to one on the net.

also if anyone knows where i can buy black chunky 100% wool which does not require me getting a second mortgage it would be much appreciated!

tia

Knitting a full sweater in chunky wool is going to cost you a bomb, wherever you get the wool. If you knit a sweater in dk, it will use a lot less wool (by weight) and hence cost a lot less.

A sweater in chunky wool might also be unwearably bulky, imo.

Here is a pattern, though. Looks pretty easy.

If you're looking for a starter project, a simple scarf is probably safer and a better introduction?

Is that always the case, NQC? I would have thought you'd use so much less in terms of yardage that it might not be all that different. Agree that it would be hard to wear though, and might look very handknitted, if you see what I mean.

If you don't mind synthetic (arrgh) then this is cheap.

I'm pretty sure it is. At least, I know that if I do a baby hat in 4ply, I will use 25g of wool. If I do it in DK, I will use about 60g of wool. So 4ply costs less than half of DK, and that's just going from 4mm to 3mm!

thanks for replies, am very glad i posted i clearly dont know much about this!

he wants it to look handknitted, and that jumper is too fancy (you see why i am having trouble?). have been doing jumpers for dss and they are turning out well, is first 2 projects i have done (am doing them at the same time, i get bored easily) so am not too scared but dont know much about the technical side!

it has to be pure wool, and he would be happy with the same pattern i have used for the boys, unfortunately it doesnt go up to his size and is for dk on smallish needles. he also wants it a lot thicker (he spends a lot of time playing with his toys in the cellar and its a bit nippy down there!)

if i just use bigger needles and dk would that make it thicker? suppose i could just keep trying til i get it right but am a bit nervous about changing patterns when there is a lot of money at stake and i would have to buy wool off the net as nowhere close sells it, therefore (i assume) i would have to buy it all at once so the colour is def the same

advice very much appreciated ladies, am clueless!

Bigger needles and DK will make it holey, and not what you want.

And your DH's proportions may not be the same as the kids? I'd check it out. If, say, you want the sweater to be twice as big in all directions, you could just try to find a yarn size and needle size that gave you a tension square that was twice the size as the one for the boys' sweater (as long as the tension square felt ok) and then do it that way?

If you felt like investing then this book would enable you to make a sweater as thick or thin or plain as you wanted. Agree with NQC, DK and big needles will not work unless you double up the yarn, but you would need to do a fair bit of swatching to get the sizes right.

that would probably work, they are baggy jumpers and thats what he wants, a big sloppy jumper to slob around in. if i used double sized needles and double thickness wool would that do it? if it was cheap wool i wouldnt mind experimenting but i dont want to waste £50 (or more!)

thanks tm, that looks fab! i tried looking for books but there are so many i gave up

You could certainly try, but as NQC says the proportions may not be right- children usually need much bigger head holes. You could actually do most of it with rectangles, but you'd need to shape the neck a bit and slope the sleeves. That book should help

This is the best I can do for cheapish pure chunky black wool .

Children have shorter arms, proportionally, too, I think. And maybe shorter bodies?

I was tryong to remember- I know there was a whole chpater about it in the knitting designing book I read. I think their bodies grow much more in width than they do in length so you have to take that into account, and I bet you're right about arms. That would be dead easy to correct for though, you'd just keep going until it looked right, presumably.

this has been so helpful, thanks ever so much. am really glad i didnt just go ahead and try it!

joy of joys i can get the book from the library so will get down there on monday and look at ordering wool when i have more idea of how much i need. will then probably be back on here begging for more advice, you two are fab