Bláregn Open — Round-Yoke Cardigan Knitting Pattern

Bláregn — wisteria; “open” marks the cardigan. Védís Jónsdóttir’s short round-yoke cardigan from Ístex’s Lopi 43 is knitted with one strand of Plötulopi and one of Einband held together: white Plötulopi with yellow Einband gives a yellow-and-white marl, and the yoke has clusters of small light blue flowers in light blues blue Plötulopi with light denim Einband. It is knitted in the round, cut open at the front and closed with five snap fasteners; every edge is folded double, with light denim Einband on the inside. Sizes S to 2XL. All four colours are still made. The pullover, Bláregn, is a separate pattern (Lopi 43, no. 2).

What you get

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

Yarn used in the pattern (not included)

Plötulopi — 100 g plates · sizes S (M L XL 2XL)
A 0001 white — 2 (3 3 3 4)
B 2023 light blues blue — 1 (1 1 1 1)

Einband — 50 g balls · sizes S (M L XL 2XL) — one strand, held together with the Plötulopi
C 1765 yellow — 3 (3 4 4 5)
D 0008 light denim — 1 (1 2 2 2)

Sizes

Gauge
15 sts × 20 rows = 10 cm (4″) in stocking stitch on 5.5 mm needles, with one strand of Plötulopi and one of Einband held 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 hem facing, the neckband and the front bands
4.5 mm and 5.5 mm double-pointed needles for the sleeves

You will also need
5 snap fasteners (in the pattern’s list), and — though the list leaves them out — stitch holders for the underarm stitches, a sewing machine and matching thread for the steek, and a tapestry needle.

How it is knitted
Knitted with one strand of Plötulopi and one of Einband held together, in the round from the bottom up. The body is cast on with light denim Einband alone and knitted back and forth for 5 rows on 4.5 mm (the facing); then one row in white and yellow together, a row purled as seen from the right side (the fold), 5 more rows, and two purled steek stitches are cast on to join the round. On 5.5 mm the body is knitted to 27 (28, 29, 30, 31) cm from the purl row. The sleeves start the same way, but in the round from the first round, on double-pointed needles, and are increased every 7th round. Body and sleeves are joined for the round yoke, 211 (227, 243, 259, 275) stitches, and the 48-round flower chart, with six decrease rounds, takes it to 57 (61, 65, 69, 73); the smaller sizes leave out marked rounds. The neckband is knitted back and forth on 4.5 mm: 5 rows, a purl row, then 5 rows in light denim Einband. The steek is sewn twice by machine and cut; the front bands are picked up (3 stitches for every 4 rows) and knitted the same way — 5 rows, a purl row, 6 rows in light denim. The edges are folded to the inside along the purl row and slip-stitched down (the pattern names the neckband and the body and sleeve facings; the front bands are folded the same way — our reading). The underarms are grafted and the snap fasteners sewn on.

Design: Védís Jónsdóttir — pattern from Lopi No. 43 (no. 10), 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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