Ása — Children’s Hooded Heart Cardigan Knitting Pattern

Ása is Védís Jónsdóttir’s hooded children’s cardigan from Ístex’s Lopi 26, knitted in Léttlopi: covered from hem to neck in rows of small chevrons, crosses and motifs in eight colours, with big pink-and-red hearts above the hem, on the cuffs and round the yoke, moss-stitch edges and a hood. Body and sleeves are knitted in the round, the front is cut open, and it closes with 7 small buttons. The pattern has two versions with the same motif colours, in sizes 6 to 10 years: white, with a white hood, and burgundy — a dark wine ground with a lilac hood. Lilac (1413), light red (1408), orange (1410) and sun yellow (1411) are no longer made, nor is dark wine (9417); the white ground and the other four motif colours still are.

What you get

• The knitting pattern in English (PDF), emailed right after purchase — nothing is posted
• Two colour versions — white and burgundy
• Sizes 6, 8 and 10 years
• Three charts — body, sleeve and yoke — with one colour key for both versions
• Yarn and needles are not included. The kit has this pattern and all the yarn: the white kit

Yarn used in the pattern (not included)

White cardigan: Léttlopi — 50 g balls · ages 6 (8 10) years
A 0051 white — 6 (7 8)
B 1413 lilac — 1 (1 1) · no longer made — the white kit uses 1702 milkyway, a pale lavender-blue, paler and clearly bluer than the mauve lilac in the photo
C 1412 pink — 1 (1 1)
D 1408 light red — 1 (1 1) · no longer made — the white kit uses 9434 crimson red, the same red hue but much deeper and darker than the bright coral-red hearts in the photo
E 1410 orange — 1 (1 1) · no longer made — the white kit uses 1704 apricot, a clearly darker, browner ginger orange
F 1411 sun yellow — 1 (1 1) · no longer made — the white kit uses 1703 mimosa, a stronger, more golden yellow than the soft yellow in the photo
G 1404 glacier blue — 1 (1 1)
H 1402 heaven blue — 1 (1 1)
I 1406 spring green — 1 (1 1)

Burgundy cardigan: Léttlopi — 50 g balls · ages 6 (8 10) years — we have no kit for this version
A 9417 dark wine — 5 (6 7) · no longer made — there is no kit for the burgundy version
B 1413 lilac — 2 (2 2) · no longer made — the white kit uses 1702 milkyway in its place
C 1412 pink — 1 (1 1)
D 1408 light red — 1 (1 1) · no longer made — the white kit uses 9434 crimson red in its place
E 1410 orange — 1 (1 1) · no longer made — the white kit uses 1704 apricot in its place
F 1411 sun yellow — 1 (1 1) · no longer made — the white kit uses 1703 mimosa in its place
G 1404 glacier blue — 1 (1 1)
H 1402 heaven blue — 1 (1 1)
I 1406 spring green — 1 (1 1)

Sizes

Gauge
18 sts × 24 rows = 10 cm (4″) in stocking stitch on 4.5 mm needles.

Needles
3.5 mm (US 4) and 4.5 mm (US 7) circular needles, 60–80 cm — 3.5 mm for the moss-stitch hem, the front bands and the neckband, 4.5 mm for the body, the yoke and the hood
3.5 mm (US 4) and 4.5 mm (US 7) double-pointed needles for the sleeves — 3.5 mm for the moss-stitch cuffs
The yoke says to change to shorter needles as the rounds get tighter, but no shorter circular is listed; the 4.5 mm double-pointed needles will do (our suggestion)

You will also need
7 small buttons (in the pattern’s list, which gives no size), and — though the list leaves them out — stitch holders (or scrap yarn) for the band and underarm stitches, a sewing machine and thread for the steek, and a tapestry needle for grafting.

How it is knitted
The body is cast on in the main colour (A — white or dark wine) on the 3.5 mm circular and knitted back and forth in moss stitch for 5 rows; the first and last 5 stitches go onto holders for the front bands. On 4.5 mm, 2 purl stitches are cast on at the front for the steek, and the body is joined and knitted in the round from chart 1 — big hearts above the hem, then rows of small chevrons, crosses and motifs in eight colours. Sizes 6 and 8 leave out the marked parts of the charts. The sleeves start with 5 rounds of moss stitch on 3.5 mm double-pointed needles and are knitted from chart 2, with 2 stitches increased every 8th round. Body and sleeves are joined for the round yoke: a 39-round chart with a row of big hearts and smaller motifs, with six decrease rounds worked in the chart. The front is machine-sewn, the moss-stitch bands are knitted from the held stitches with a 3-stitch facing, and then the front is cut open and the bands sewn on, so the facing covers the cut edge. A moss-stitch neckband follows, then the hood — white for the white version, lilac for the burgundy one — knitted back and forth and grafted at the top.

Design: Védís Jónsdóttir — pattern from Lopi No. 26 (no. 1), 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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