This BIG, thick, hooded sweater is a Forest House Fiberworks original, designed when Sandy Sojka of Bend-in-the-Creek Farm in Middleburg, PA gave FHF a picture from a mail-order catalog and asked if a sweater could be made like it.

This hoodie weighs 48.6 ounces, and used about 1,670 yards of handspun, two-ply yarn.  The wool is from the Tunis sheep that Sandy and Gary Sojka raise on their farm.

The stitch used is called “Double Knit Fabric” from Barbara G. Walker’s A Second Treasury of Knitting Patterns, p. 24.  It creates a rib-look on the right side and reverse stockinette look on the reverse, and a fabric that is lighter than it looks and very warm.