Valley Yarns Tina's Hoodie Knitting Pattern

Valley Yarns Tina's Hoodie

Project Overview

Tina's Hoodie is an intermediate-level knitted cardigan designed by Kirsten Hipsky and inspired by a favorite store-bought sweater. This cute hoodie features decorative front cables, garter rib detailing, and double-lined vertical pockets for added functionality and style. The garment is worked flat from the bottom up, making it an accessible project for knitters with some experience in cable work and shaping techniques.

What Is Being Made

This is a hooded cardigan sweater available in six sizes with finished chest measurements ranging from 35 inches to 48 inches. The design combines classic knitwear elements including cable panels, textured garter rib sections, and practical pocket construction. The hoodie construction and double-lined pockets make this a versatile layering piece suitable for various occasions.

Techniques Used

• Bottom-up construction: The garment is knitted from the lower body upward, allowing for easy adjustments to length and fit as you work
• Cable work: Decorative cables are incorporated as vertical panels, requiring cable needle manipulation for crossed stitches
• Waist shaping: Strategic decreases and increases at marked intervals create a shaped silhouette
• Multi-strand knitting: The pattern uses separate balls of yarn to create double-lined vertical pockets, worked simultaneously with the main body
• Worked flat: The piece is constructed on straight needles rather than in the round, with seaming required for finishing

Stitches and Stitch Patterns

The pattern incorporates several key stitch techniques:

• Garter Rib: A textured pattern worked over a multiple of 6 stitches, alternating knit and purl stitches on wrong-side rows with all knit stitches on right-side rows. This creates a subtle ribbed texture distinct from traditional ribbing
• Cable Panel: A 14-stitch panel featuring left crosses (LC), right crosses (RC), and front crosses (FC) worked over an 8-row repeat. The cable pattern creates diagonal crossing effects that narrow and widen across the panel
• Ribbing: Traditional knit-2, purl-2 ribbing used for the initial lower body edge, providing elasticity and a finished appearance
• Stockinette stitch: Implied in the cable panel background stitches and pocket linings

Materials

The pattern calls for Valley Yarns Williamstown, a worsted-weight yarn with a blend of 65% wool, 25% acrylic, and 10% viscose. Each skein contains 50 grams and approximately 126 yards. The project requires 10 to 15 skeins depending on size, with the sample shown in color 06 Merlot, a rich burgundy shade. The wool content provides warmth and elasticity, while the acrylic and viscose blend adds durability and drape to the finished garment. Standard knitting needles appropriate for worsted-weight yarn and a cable needle for executing the cable crosses are required.

Construction Details

The lower body begins with a cast-on that establishes stitch markers dividing the work into distinct sections: edge stitches, cable panels marked with A markers, garter rib sections, and main body sections marked with B markers. After working 2 inches of ribbing, waist shaping begins with decreases worked every 8 rows at the B markers, repeated 4 times total. Simultaneously, when the piece measures 3 inches from the cast-on edge, the work is divided into three separate sections using additional balls of yarn to create the double-lined vertical pockets. These pocket sections are worked independently for 3 inches before being rejoined to work as a single piece again. The garment continues in pattern until it measures 8 inches from the cast-on edge, at which point increases are worked at the B markers to shape the upper body.