Fura — Children’s Yoke Sweater Knitting Pattern

Fura — pine. G. Dagbjört Guðmundsdóttir’s round-yoke sweater for children from Ístex’s 25-year pattern collection — the March pattern — knitted in Léttlopi in the round from the bottom up: white, with a grey yoke pattern of chevrons and small checks, grey rib at the hem and cuffs with a narrow band of grey checks above it, and a folded neckband, grey on the outside and white inside. One colour version, in sizes 5–6, 7–8 and 10–11 years.

What you get

• The knitting pattern in English (PDF), emailed right after purchase — nothing is posted
• Sizes 5–6, 7–8 and 10–11 years
• Two charts — the check band above the rib and the yoke
• Yarn and needles are not included. The kit has this pattern and all the yarn: the Fura kit

Yarn used in the pattern (not included)

Léttlopi — 50 g balls · ages 5–6 (7–8, 10–11) years
A 0051 white — 4 (5 6)
B 0057 grey — 2 (2 3)

Sizes

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

Needles
3.5 mm (US 4) circular needle, 60–80 cm, for the hem rib
4.5 mm (US 7) circular needles, 40 and 60–80 cm, for the body and the yoke
3.5 mm and 4.5 mm double-pointed needles for the sleeves — by our reading the 3.5 mm ones also suit the neckband, which the pattern knits on “3.5mm needle” with only 66 to 72 stitches

You will also need
Stitch holders for the underarm stitches, a stitch marker, and a tapestry needle for grafting the underarms and sewing down the neckband — the pattern uses them but does not list them.

How it is knitted
Knitted in the round from the bottom up. The body is cast on with 132 (142, 152) stitches in grey on 3.5 mm and knitted in K1, P1 rib for 3.5 (4, 4) cm; on 4.5 mm comes a 3-round band of grey checks (chart 1), then white to 31 (34, 37) cm. The sleeves start the same way on double-pointed needles — 34 (34, 36) stitches of grey rib, increased to 36 (38, 40), and the check band — and are increased at the underarm to 50 (50, 52) stitches. Body and sleeves are joined, with 8 (8, 9) stitches on holders at each underarm, and the yoke — 200 (210, 220) stitches — is knitted from a 38-round chart with six decrease rounds, down to 80 (84, 88); the smaller sizes leave out marked rounds. The neckband is decreased to 66 (68, 72) stitches on 3.5 mm and knitted in K1, P1 rib, 2.5 (3, 3) cm in grey and 3 (3.5, 3.5) cm in white, bound off loosely, folded to the inside and backstitched down. The underarm stitches are grafted.

Design: G. Dagbjört Guðmundsdóttir — pattern from Ístex 25 years (no. 3, March), 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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