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Knit It Now drop shoulder sweater diagrams beside a cream cap-sleeve tank with a ribbed collar and an embroidered vine across the shoulder.

Knit-able Inspiration

Turn a Drop Shoulder Sweater into a Cap-Sleeve Tank

Design It Your Way

Love the look of Sirdar’s Branch Out Tank? Use it as inspiration to make your own version on the knitting machine.

Start with a custom fit from our Drop Shoulder Sweater builder, leave off the sleeves, then choose a collar and finish the armholes. The builder gives you the body instructions for your measurements and gauge, leaving you free to add embroidery and the details that make it yours.

Open the Drop Shoulder Sweater Builder View the Sirdar Branch Out Tank Pattern

Make It Your Own

  • Embrace Sirdar’s embroidery or get creative.
  • Plan a finished edge for each armhole.
  • Plan a collar that works with the neckline you chose.

    Need help with the collar? Watch Collars for Machine Knitters. Members

  • Use your own yarn and the gauge from your swatch.
  • Leave Sirdar’s embroidery and exact shaping as their design.

Build Your Version

  • Choose a yarn that knits comfortably on your machine.
  • Knit and measure a gauge swatch.
  • Open the Drop Shoulder Sweater builder and start a new pattern.
  • Choose a starting size, pullover or cardigan, neckline, fit, and sleeve length.
  • Enter the stitch and row gauge from your swatch.
  • Knit the body from the generated pattern, then finish the armholes and add the collar you planned.

Featured Yarn

Pink ball of Sirdar Loveful Bio Blend double knitting yarn, with a close-up of the fiber.

Sirdar Loveful Bio Blend DK

A double knitting yarn in the same Loveful Bio Blend family as the chunky yarn used in the Sirdar tank pattern. Swatch it on your machine and enter the gauge you actually get. Another yarn that suits your machine can be used instead.

Explore Sirdar Loveful Bio Blend DK

Branch Out Tank by Sirdar

The original hand-knitting pattern is Sirdar 10969, written for Loveful Bio Blend Chunky. It inspired the cap-sleeve tank silhouette of this Knit-able.

View the Sirdar Branch Out Tank Pattern

Ready to Knit Your Own?

Choose your yarn, enter your gauge, and create a drop shoulder sweater pattern. Omit the sleeves, then plan finished armholes and a collar.

Open the Drop Shoulder Sweater Builder

Knit It Now members can use their own measurements and gauge to generate custom machine-knitting instructions.

Branch Out Tank knitting pattern by Sirdar. Tank photograph courtesy of Sirdar. Drop shoulder diagrams by Knit It Now.