Knitwear that holds its shape.
Pullovers and cardigans in weights made for indoor hours and the short walk on either side of them.
$4.95 flat shipping
Free returns with a prepaid label
30 days to try it on indoors
Ships anywhere in the United States
6 to 10 business days
Your Next Favorite Sweater, Ready to Ship.
Ready-made stock, so what you order is the piece that ships. Nothing here is a pre-order.
Heather Oatmeal Crewneck Sweater – Women’s Relaxed Knit Pullover
$44.95
Burgundy/Black/Blue Striped Cardigan – Women’s Button Front Knit
$54.95
Heather Taupe Cable Knit Cardigan – Women’s Short Sleeve Top
$42.95
Cream Cable Knit Polo Sweater – Women’s Short Sleeve Collared Top
$39.95
Charcoal Gray Cable Knit Cardigan – Women’s Fitted Button Front
$47.95A sweater lives or dies at its edges.
The body of a knit is a field of loops with nothing in it that insists on a shape. It settles into whatever outline the ribbing gives it, which is why we read the cuff, the hem and the neckband before anything else.
The cuff
How deep the rib runs, and how fast it closes back around a wrist after a hand has been pulled through it.
The hem
Enough rounds of rib to sit flat over a waistband instead of going wavy and creeping up.
The neckband
Knitted in as part of the garment where we can get it, so it does not widen and slide toward one shoulder.
Three weights, one decision.
Choose by how long you are outside on either side of an indoor day, not by the month on the calendar. The taller the piece sits below, the denser the knit.
Light
Fine gaugeFine enough to sit under a jacket with no bulk at the cuff. Indoor hours and a car door.
Mid
EverydayThe weight most of the shop is held in. Warm inside, fine for the short walk on either side.
Heavy
Outer layerDense, deep rib, meant to be the outer layer on a cold Connecticut morning.
Weight is printed in ounces on every product page, next to the fiber content, so two pieces can be compared before either one is in your hands.
Shop by weight→
Our story starts with a sweater that gave up.
Pick up a knit that has stopped working and the body of it is usually fine. The trouble sits at a cuff that no longer closes, a hem that creeps up, a neckline half an inch wider than it was.
So we buy for the edges, and we settle color and stitch pattern together rather than one after the other. A cable needs a shade you can see it in. A quiet color needs a surface with enough going on to hold the eye.
Tebbys is a small shop in Tolland, Connecticut. Two groups, pullovers and cardigans, kept as ready-made stock and packed here.
Read our full story→You cannot feel a knit through a screen.
What travels through a screen is numbers and plain description. So we take every measurement from the garment itself, never from a body chart.
Weight, fiber content and the depth of the cuff and hem rib are written out in full, including the inconvenient ones.
Try it on indoors
Over whatever you would normally wear underneath it. If the hand of it is wrong for you, that is a real reason and we will not ask you to argue it.
Our blog
Care, fit, and how a knit ages.
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