Eyja — Round-Yoke Sweater Dress Knitting Pattern

Eyja — island. Védís Jónsdóttir’s sweater dress from Ístex’s Lopi 26: a women’s long-sleeved round-yoke dress in Léttlopi, with a yoke of zigzags and small diamonds, a matching border at the cuffs and a shaped waist. There is no rib: the hem, cuffs and neck have a small garter edge with a row of eyelets. The pattern gives two colour versions with the same amounts — brown with white and camel, and lilac with black and garnet red — and two lengths, short and long, in sizes XS to XL. Brown (1401), camel (1400) and lilac (1413) are no longer made; white, black and garnet red still are.

What you get

• The knitting pattern in English (PDF), emailed right after purchase — nothing is posted
• Two colour versions — brown and lilac
• Two lengths, short and long
• Sizes XS, S, M, L and XL
• Two charts — the sleeve border and the yoke — with one key for both versions
• Yarn and needles are not included. The kits have this pattern and all the yarn: the brown kit or the lavender-blue kit

Yarn used in the pattern (not included)

Brown version: Léttlopi — 50 g balls · sizes XS (S M L XL)
A 1401 brown, short length — 8 (9 9 10 10) · no longer made — the brown kit uses 0867 chocolate heather, a little darker and less red than the dress in the photo
A 1401 brown, long length — 9 (10 10 11 11)
B 1400 camel — 1 (1 1 1 1) · no longer made — the brown kit uses 1419 barley, a warm tan, a little darker and less golden than the camel in the photo
C 0051 white — 2 (2 2 2 2)

Lilac version: Léttlopi — 50 g balls · sizes XS (S M L XL)
A 1413 lilac, short length — 8 (9 9 10 10) · no longer made, and no Léttlopi made today is lilac — the lavender-blue kit uses 1702 milkyway, a pale lavender-blue, clearly paler and bluer than the lilac in the photo
A 1413 lilac, long length — 9 (10 10 11 11)
B 1409 garnet red — 1 (1 1 1 1)
C 0059 black — 2 (2 2 2 2)

Sizes

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

Needles
4.5 mm (US 7) circular needles, 40 cm and 60–80 cm — the long one for the body and the yoke, the 40 cm when the yoke gets tight
4.5 mm (US 7) double-pointed needles for the sleeves

You will also need
2 stitch markers for the waist shaping, stitch holders (or scrap yarn) for the underarm stitches, and a tapestry needle for grafting them — none of them in the pattern’s list. The belts in the photos are not part of the pattern.

How it is knitted
Knitted in the round from the bottom up, all on 4.5 mm needles. The body is cast on in A — brown or lilac — and starts with 3 rows knitted back and forth — knit, a row of eyelets (k2tog, yo), knit — before it is joined: a small garter edge with a row of holes, where most yoke sweaters have rib. The body is plain stocking stitch in A, knitted straight to 20 (21, 22, 24, 24) cm for the short length or 30 (31, 32, 34, 34) cm for the long one, and then shaped at the waist: 20 stitches are decreased at the sides, and 12 are increased again. The sleeves start with the same eyelet edge in C — white or black — and an 8-round border in all three colours. Body and sleeves are joined for the round yoke: a 50-round chart of zigzags and small diamonds in C and B — white and camel on brown, or black and garnet red on lilac — with six decrease rounds and a few rounds skipped in every size but XL. The neckband, in C, is a knit round, a purl round, an eyelet round and a purl round. The underarm stitches are grafted.

Design: Védís Jónsdóttir — pattern from Lopi No. 26 (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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