Bláregn — Long Yoke Sweater Knitting Pattern

Bláregn — wisteria: the pattern’s lines recall the house next door with the beautiful wisteria and its clusters of purple flowers. Védís Jónsdóttir’s long round-yoke sweater from Ístex’s Lopi 43 is knitted with one strand of Plötulopi and one of Einband held together: amethyst and purple for the ground, ash and lavender for small pale motifs round the yoke and a band above each cuff, with some of the pale stitches purled. It is slightly A-shaped, 56 to 60 cm from the hem to the underarm, with seed-stitch edges — worn as a short dress in the photos. It is a pullover, not a cardigan. One colour version, in sizes S to 2XL. All four colours are still made.

What you get

• The knitting pattern in English (PDF), emailed right after purchase — nothing is posted
• Sizes S, M, L, XL and 2XL
• Two charts — the sleeve band and the yoke — with a colour key
• Yarn and needles are not included. The kit has this pattern and all the yarn: the Bláregn kit

Yarn used in the pattern (not included)

Plötulopi — 100 g plates · sizes S (M L XL 2XL) · A is knitted together with C, and B with D
A 2026 amethyst — 3 (3 4 4 5)
B 1026 ash — 1 (1 1 1 1)

Einband — 50 g balls · sizes S (M L XL 2XL)
C 9044 purple — 4 (4 5 5 6)
D 1767 lavender — 1 (1 1 1 1)

Sizes

Gauge
15 sts × 20 rows = 10 cm (4″) in stocking stitch on 5.5 mm needles, with 1-ply Plötulopi and Einband knitted together.

Needles
5.5 mm (US 9) circular needles, 40 and 80 cm, for the body and the yoke
4.5 mm (US 7) circular needles, 40 and 80 cm, for the seed-stitch hem and the neckband
4.5 mm (US 7) and 5.5 mm (US 9) double-pointed needles for the sleeves — 4.5 mm for the cuffs

You will also need
Two stitch markers for the side decreases, 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, with one strand of Plötulopi and one of Einband held together: amethyst and purple (A+C) for the ground, ash and lavender (B+D) for the pattern. The body is cast on loosely on the 4.5 mm circular and worked in 6 rounds of seed stitch, then in stocking stitch on 5.5 mm, decreased at both sides four times — 16 stitches in all — from 101 (110, 120, 129, 138) cm round at the hem to 90 (100, 109, 118, 128) cm at the chest, to 56 (57, 58, 59, 60) cm. The sleeves are cast on loosely in B+D on 4.5 mm double-pointed needles — 1 round of seed stitch, then 5 in A+C — followed by a 9-round band from chart 1 on 5.5 mm, and are increased — evenly in a plain round before the chart, then at the underarm — to 56 (59, 62, 65, 68) stitches. Body and sleeves are joined for the round yoke: a 48-round chart with five decrease rounds, from 208 (224, 240, 256, 272) stitches to 78 (84, 90, 96, 102); the smaller sizes leave out marked rounds. In both charts some of the ash-and-lavender stitches are purled; the purple ground is all knit. The neckband is 5 rounds of seed stitch in A+C and 1 round in B+D on 4.5 mm, bound off in seed stitch. The underarms are grafted.

Design: Védís Jónsdóttir — pattern from Lopi No. 43 (no. 2), 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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