Cotton-linen is a perfect blend for light and breezy spring-weight apparel, and the sleeveless Carmel is no exception–rather, it may be the epitome. In conjunction with the underlying white, heart-knit yarn as its background, the loftier, sparkling blue sky knit yarn, free of conventional design, creates patterns limited by one’s imagination only–coastline diagrams, rolling Southern California swells or foothills, windblown clouds, shapeless sea breezes, modern art, and more. In fact, the sense that the rib knit waist and collar may help confine these patterns to the sweater may be illusory only: for the twinkling blue and white yarns appear as if they could spill right over their borders and into the blue ocean and horizon beyond.