Blóm — Children’s Zip Cardigan with Flower Bands Knitting Pattern

Blóm — flowers. Védís Jónsdóttir’s zip cardigan for children from Ístex’s Lopi 25, knitted in Léttlopi in the round from the bottom up and cut open at the front. It is garnet red, with white bands of red flowers at the hem and on the cuffs, a plain red round yoke, a folded neckband and garter-stitch front bands with a zip. One colour version, in sizes 4, 6 and 9.

What you get

• The knitting pattern in English (PDF), emailed right after purchase — nothing is posted
• Sizes 4, 6 and 9
• Three charts — the flower bands for the body and the sleeves, and the yoke
• Yarn and needles are not included. The kit has this pattern and all the yarn: the garnet red kit

Yarn used in the pattern (not included)

Léttlopi — 50 g balls · sizes 4 (6 9)
A 1409 garnet red — 6 (6 7)
B 0051 white — 2 (2 2)

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, for the body, the yoke and the front bands
4.5 mm (US 7) circular needle, 40 cm
3.5 mm (US 4) and 4.5 mm (US 7) double-pointed needles for the sleeves and the neckband

You will also need
A zip, 40, 45 or 50 cm by size — the only notion in the pattern’s list. The instructions also use a sewing machine and thread to secure the front before it is cut, a needle and thread to sew in the zip, a needle to slip-stitch the neckband down, stitch holders for the underarm stitches and 3 stitch markers, which the list leaves out.

How it is knitted
Knitted in the round from the bottom up, with two purl stitches up the centre front. The body is cast on in white on 3.5 mm, with a K1, P1 rib and a garter ridge at the edge; it is joined into a round when it changes to 4.5 mm, and the 23-round flower band of chart 1 is knitted in white and garnet red. After the band the body is decreased 7 (7, 8) stitches and goes on in garnet red to 24 (28, 32) cm. The sleeves are cast on in white on 3.5 mm double-pointed needles and joined at once, with the same rib and ridge, then knitted on 4.5 mm with the flower band of chart 2, increased at the underarm to 48 (50, 54) stitches and continued in garnet red to 26 (30, 34) cm. Body and sleeves are joined for the round yoke — 190 (210, 230) stitches — knitted in garnet red from chart 3 with three decrease rounds, down to 82 (90, 98); the smaller sizes leave out marked rounds. The neckband is knitted on 3.5 mm, decreased to 58 (60, 66) stitches and then worked back and forth: a purl ridge, 5 rows of K1, P1 rib, a second ridge and 5 more rows, cast off loosely, folded in half to the inside and slip-stitched down. Two rows of small straight machine stitches go up each purl stitch at the front, and the front is cut open between the two pairs of sewn rows. Garter-stitch bands are picked up along the cut edges on 3.5 mm, the underarm stitches are grafted, and the zip is sewn in by hand.

Design: Védís Jónsdóttir — pattern from Lopi No. 25 (no. 14), 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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