Germain Sweater

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Very light sweater with a saddle shoulder and 3/4 balloon sleeves.

Germain sweater is the sister of the Germain Cardigan and thereby also named after the French mathematician, physicist and philosopher Sophie Germain (1776-1831). Her primary work was within number theory and she has lent her name to the Sophie Germain primes.  Today these find use in cryptography and are used to generate pseudo-random numbers.

The sweater is light and airy - perfect over a summer dress. It has an ease of 12 cm, short balloon sleeves and narrow rib edges.

I am 162 cm (5' 4") tall and my Germain sweater has a back length of 47 cm. The bust measurement is 105 cm (ie. the sweater has a circumference of 117 cm). The sweater is knitted in 2 threads of Algasoie from Plassard in the colour 10. I used 6 skeins for my size.

The gauge is 15 stitches x 19 rows per 10 x 10 cm (approx. 4 x 4 inches) on 7 mm needles. The sweater is knitted from the top down in one piece. The neckline is shaped using short rows. The  sweater is adjusted to your measurements.

The pattern is in English and will be sent as a pdf file to your email address.