Petite Knit Stockholm Slipover | Knitting Pattern Review

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I’ve decided to knit bigger projects. Here’s my pattern review of the Petite Knit Stockholm Slipover.

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I have a neighbour who is an amazing knitter. We get together weekly to knit and chat. She inspired me to take on a bigger knitting project. Pair that with my love for Sezane knits, and so this project was started. She told me of Petite Knits.

What is Petite Knit?

Petite Knits is a knitting pattern company from Denmark. The designer offers patterns which are minimalist yet modern. The patterns are offered in a variety of languages as well, so they are very accessible. Simply purchase from the website, and you will be given a link to download the PDF version of the pattern.

Gone are the days when knitting patterns looked frumpy and, dare I say, obviously homemade. Also gone are the days of the heavy and scratchy yarns that made homemade sweaters not the most pleasant to wear. Is it wrong to want to make something that looks store-bought? Then what a compliment it is when people think that, but then you reveal that you made it!

Petite Knit offers a large variety of knitting patterns – sweaters, cardigans, slipovers (known as vests to me) and accessories. There are so many beautiful patterns. I have many on my wishlist.

Just Starting Out?

The Petite Knit patterns are rated by difficulty. There is a whole Novice Line – perfect for beginners and available in a sweater, cardigan, and slipover. There are also varieties of each pattern, not only for age and gender, but also chunky versus mohair. So there is something for everyone, depending on your style preference.

Many of the Novice series are knitted in the round. This means using a circular knitting needle and knitting a tube. Otherwise, you’d knit separate pieces (front, back, sleeve) and then sew them together. These patterns also offer top-down construction. This allows you to try it on as you knit.

Petite Knit Stockholm Slipover

For my first big knitting project, I chose the Petite Knit Stockholm Slipover. This is not a beginner pattern, but given that I have some knitting experience – I can knit, purl, cast on and cast off, I thought I would give it a try.

Being a slipover, there are no sleeves, and so I thought this would be “easier” and quicker to make. I also had some yarn in my stash that I wanted to use, but I didn’t have a lot and so, being a vest, the Petite Knit Stockholm Slipover doesn’t require a lot of yarn.

This pattern, along with many other Petite Knit patterns, combines a regular, lightweight yarn with a mohair yarn. I had never knitted with two yarns at the same time before, so this was new. Given that the two yarns are so thin, it’s actually not that bad. They didn’t tangle up like I thought they would. I simply have both skeins beside me, and they unravel naturally as I knit.

There is a whole Stockholm series. It consists of this slipover – not only as a round neck, but there is a V-neck version as well (it’s a separate pattern). The round neck slipover is also avasilable in junior and mini sizes as well. If you like the look, there is also a sweater version – again, both in round neck and as a V-neck.

I could spend hours going over yarn choices – and I did! I discovered that AI can be very helpful in this regard.

I used the above AI prompts to help me decide what yarn to use. It opened up a whole world of yarn brands that I had never heard of. Since I wanted this to be a “nicer” project, I wasn’t going to be able to find suitable yarn at Michaels.

If you are fortunate to have a local yarn store, get to know them! I walked into mine with an idea of a brand of mohair yarn, based on my AI search, but I was open to suggestions from my local yarn store. They recommended a brand, just as soft and not itchy at all, and it was a bit cheaper!

I must say that pairing a cream coloured mohair yarn with a solid coloured yarn is amazing. It softens the colour (almost muting it a bit) and creates a lovely heathered effect.

Knitting on circular needles is fun, but it is not easy to make a gauge swatch. It is not the same as using regular knitting needles, and so I couldn’t get away with that. You actually have to knit using the circular needles, but slide your work over every row (leaving a large loop in the yarn) to emulate the stokinette stitch. I was worried that my yarn would get tangled up, so I only did a few rows to get a basic idea.

Here are some options for circular needles. I have an interchangeable set, which means I have the cables and can attach needles of the correct size. This type of set is more expensive, but more versatile. Otherwise, you can get needles permanently attached to the cable, but then you are limited to that particular cable length and that particular needle size.

If you are going to be doing a bit of knitting, investing in a circular knitting needle set is definitely worth the investment. You can knit anything on circular needles as you would straight needles, but not the other way around.

While the Petite Knit Stockholm Slipover pattern recommends 4.5 mm needles (and I also confirmed with AI which needles to use), I simply did not have 4.5 mm needles. I have 4.0 mm and 5.0 mm. I did not knit an entire swatch; I just realized that using 4.0 mm yielded way too many stitches. So my solution was to use the 5.0 mm needles, which were only a stitch off, and so I hoped for the best. I was trying to avoid having to buy new tips.

Petite Knit Stockholm Slipover Pattern Review

Knitting is one of those things where the prep work is the most work. It’s choosing the yarn, figuring out the pattern, making the swatch…. I just wanted to knit! Once I got started, it actually worked up quite fast. Doing the stockinette stitch (knit one row, then purl the next row) is something that you can do while watching Netflix. There is no counting involved, and you can just do it. I like projects like that.

This pattern is rated as a 3/5 difficulty. As mentioned, I thought it wouldn’t be too bad as it didn’t have sleeves and so I thought it would be more manageable and quicker to start with. That said, I am apparently not a fast knitter. This took me longer than I expected (it took me a week). I guess I’m used to all my little crochet amigurumi that are so quick to make.

As mentioned, I know some basic knitting stitches. This pattern, however, had some new techniques and skills that I was not familiar with.

Thankfully, there are videos associated with these, as well as the skills I already knew. The videos are right on the website, as part of the sale page for the pattern. They are all in Danish, but I turned on the English subtitles and was able to figure it out. I am sure that there are other videos out there in English, but I used these ones as they were right there.

It is these types of new skills that help shape the shoulder. The novice patterns are more straight, whereas the Petite Knit Stockholm Slipover has slanting shoulders, which results in a nicer fit.

I will say that the Italian bind-off method was quite interesting. I know how to bind off, but not in this manner. It was interesting that it is sewn. I will admit that I watched that video numerous times in order to get it right.

My Modifications to the Petite Knit Stockholm Slipover

Okay, so I didn’t do the pattern exactly as stated. While I was down that AI rabbit hole, I started asking AI things like how to make the Petite Knit Stockholm Slipover look similar to Sezane’s Samuel Jumper.

The mohair makes the biggest difference. It really gives it a French vibe. This is not really a modification, as it actually suggests it in the pattern. I did, however, make some changes to the overall body length to make it a bit more cropped, as well as some changes to the ribbing.

There are so many Petite Knit patterns I want to make, now on to the next one!

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