Ás — Space Blue Yoke Sweater Knitting Pattern

Guðrún Ragna Sigurjónsdóttir’s round-yoke sweater from Ístex’s Lopi 32 is knitted in Álafosslopi on 6 mm needles: a space blue body and sleeves, and a yoke of colour bands — golden, gloxinia, burnt orange, dusk red and happy red, most of them joined by two rounds of small checks — with small space-blue shapes on the reds and little garden-green and light-denim motifs above them. The hem, cuffs and neckband are a rib in which a plain knit round alternates with a round of knit 1, purl 1. One colour version, in sizes S to XXL. Gloxinia (1241) is no longer made; the other seven colours are.

What you get

• The knitting pattern in English (PDF), emailed right after purchase — nothing is posted
• Sizes S, M, L, XL and XXL
• One yoke chart with a colour key
• Yarn and needles are not included. The kit has this pattern and all the yarn: the Ás kit

Yarn used in the pattern (not included)

Álafosslopi — 100 g balls · sizes S (M L XL XXL)
A 1233 space blue — 6 (7 7 8 8)
B 9964 golden — 1 (1 1 1 1)
C 1241 gloxinia — 1 (1 1 1 1) · no longer made by Ístex — the Ás kit uses 0163 dark soft purple in its place
D 1236 burnt orange — 1 (1 1 1 1)
E 1238 dusk red — 1 (1 1 1 1)
F 0047 happy red — 1 (1 1 1 1)
G 0008 light denim — 1 (1 1 1 1)
H 1231 garden green — 1 (1 1 1 1)

Sizes

Gauge
13 sts × 18 rows = 10 cm (4″) in stocking stitch on 6 mm needles.

Needles
6 mm (US 10) circular needles, 40 and 80 cm, for the body and the yoke
5½ mm (US 9) circular needles, 40 and 80 cm, for the body rib and the neckband
5½ mm and 6 mm double-pointed needles for the sleeves — 5½ mm for the cuffs

You will also need
Stitch holders for the underarm stitches and a tapestry needle for grafting and weaving in — the instructions use them, but the pattern’s list leaves them out.

How it is knitted
Knitted in the round from the bottom up. The hem, cuffs and neckband are a two-round rib: a knit round, then a round of K1, P1, repeated. The body is cast on in space blue on the 5½ mm needle, ribbed for 5½ cm, increased by 4 stitches on 6 mm to 120 (128, 136, 144, 152) and knitted straight to 42 (43, 44, 45, 46) cm. The sleeves are cast on with 32 (34, 36, 38, 38) stitches on 5½ mm double-pointed needles, ribbed for 5½ cm and increased at the underarm on 6 mm to 46 (48, 52, 56, 58) stitches, to 49 (50, 51, 52, 53) cm. Body and sleeves are joined for the round yoke: a 42-round chart with four decrease rounds, from 180 (192, 204, 216, 228) stitches to 60 (64, 68, 72, 76); the smaller sizes leave out marked rounds. The neckband is a decrease round and 4 (4, 4, 6, 6) rounds of the same rib on 5½ mm, bound off loosely. The underarms are grafted.

Design: Guðrún Ragna Sigurjónsdóttir — pattern from Lopi No. 32 (no. 24), Ístex.

How you get it — the pattern is a PDF in English. It is emailed to you right after purchase; nothing is posted.

Yarn — not included. We sell Ístex lopi by the ball in our yarn shop, or choose the kit, which has this pattern and all the yarn in one parcel.

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