Brautir — Colour-Block Cardigan and Snood Knitting Pattern

Brautir — lanes: “one by one — joined together — creating unity”, as the pattern puts it. Védís Jónsdóttir’s long V-neck cardigan from Ístex’s Lopi 43 is made of twelve narrow pieces of Álafosslopi, each knitted back and forth in blocks of colour with seed-stitch edges and then sewn together, so the blocks run in staggered lanes up the body and the sleeves. It closes with three hook-and-eye clasps. The pattern has two colourways in sizes S to L — colorful, in midnight blue, bordeaux, ruby red, golden, amber, chartreuse green and teal, and earth tones, in black heather, indigo, highland green, ash, grey, wheat and chocolate — and a snood knitted from the leftovers. All fourteen colours are still made.

What you get

• The knitting pattern in English (PDF), emailed right after purchase — nothing is posted
• Two colourways — colorful and earth tones
• Sizes S, M and L
• A snood knitted from the leftover yarn
• Yarn and needles are not included. The kits have this pattern and all the yarn: the colorful kit or the earth-tones kit

Yarn used in the pattern (not included)

Colorful: Álafosslopi — 100 g balls · sizes S (M L) — the same in every size
A 0709 midnight blue — 3 (3 3)
B 9961 bordeaux — 2 (2 2)
C 9962 ruby red — 2 (2 2)
D 9964 golden — 1 (1 1)
E 9971 amber — 1 (1 1)
F 9965 chartreuse green — 1 (1 1)
G 9967 teal — 2 (2 2)

Earth tones: Álafosslopi — 100 g balls · sizes S (M L) — the same in every size
A 0005 black heather — 3 (3 3)
B 9959 indigo — 2 (2 2)
C 1230 highland green — 2 (2 2)
D 0054 ash — 1 (1 1)
E 0057 grey — 1 (1 1)
F 9973 wheat — 1 (1 1)
G 0867 chocolate — 2 (2 2)

Sizes

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

Needles
6 mm (US 10) circular needle, 60 cm — every piece is knitted back and forth on it, and the snood in the round

You will also need
The cardigan closes with three hook-and-eye clasps (not included; they are in the pattern’s list). For sewing up you need a tapestry needle, which the list leaves out. The pattern also suggests an optional wide knitted tape or ribbon inside the front and neckline.

How it is knitted
Twelve pieces, each knitted back and forth on the 6 mm needle: four strips of 18 (20, 22) stitches for the back, four for the fronts and two halves for each sleeve. Every piece starts with 3 rows of seed stitch and keeps 2 seed stitches at each edge; the rest is stocking stitch in blocks of four to six colours, with the last row of each colour and the first row of the next worked in seed stitch. The colours change at different heights from strip to strip. The outer strips have 6 stitches bound off for the armhole at 82 (84, 86) rows, the two centre-front strips are decreased for the V-neck, and every body strip ends after 122 (126, 130) rows — 68 (70, 72) cm. Each half-sleeve starts with 16 (18, 20) stitches, is increased along one side edge every 6th row to 28 (30, 32) and ends at 90 rows — 50 cm in every size. The pieces are sewn together with colour A, between the purled stitches of the edges, and the front edges and the neckline are oversewn with the same stitch so they do not stretch. The snood is knitted in the round: 80 stitches, seed-stitch edges, 15 cm in A and then G to 25 cm.

Design: Védís Jónsdóttir — pattern from Lopi No. 43 (no. 9), 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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