Gná — Cabled Raglan Sweater Knitting Pattern

Gná is Ásta Guðrún Jóhannsdóttir’s raglan pullover for women from Ístex’s Lopi 31, knitted in Léttlopi from the bottom up. A braided cable runs up the centre front, a 10 cm band in a second colour crosses the chest and both sleeves, and vertical rib panels sit at the waist at both sides and the centre back. The pattern has two colour versions with the same amounts — orange with a murky (grey-brown) band, and burgundy, a dusty plum rose heather with a darker berry heather band — in sizes S, M and L. Three of the four colours are no longer made: orange (1410), rose heather (9428) and berry heather (9429); murky (1420) still is.

What you get

• The knitting pattern in English (PDF), emailed right after purchase — nothing is posted
• Two colour versions — orange and burgundy
• Sizes S, M and L
• The cable chart and a close-up photo of the rib panel on the back
• Yarn and needles are not included. The kits have this pattern and all the yarn: the orange kit or the fuchsia kit

Yarn used in the pattern (not included)

Orange version: Léttlopi — 50 g balls · sizes S (M L)
A 1410 orange — 7 (7 8) · no longer made — the orange kit uses 1704 apricot, a deeper, browner orange
B 1420 murky — 2 (2 2)

Burgundy version: Léttlopi — 50 g balls · sizes S (M L)
A 9428 rose heather — 7 (7 8) · no longer made — the fuchsia kit uses 1705 royal fuchsia, brighter and more magenta than the dusty plum in the photos
B 9429 berry heather — 2 (2 2) · no longer made — the fuchsia kit uses 1414 violet heather, a bluer dark purple

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, 80 cm, for the hem rib — the pattern prints US 3, but 3.5 mm is US 4
4.5 mm (US 7) circular needles, 40 and 80 cm, for the body and the yoke
3.5 mm (US 4) and 4.5 mm (US 7) double-pointed needles for the cuffs and sleeves — and, by our reading, the neck rib, which at 74 to 78 stitches is too small round for the 80 cm circular

You will also need
A cable needle, stitch markers (2 for the cable panel and 2 at the sides, then 4 for the raglan), stitch holders (or scrap yarn) for the underarm stitches, and a tapestry needle for grafting the underarms.

How it is knitted
Body and sleeves are knitted in the round from the bottom up. The hem is 8 rounds of K1, P1 rib on 3.5 mm, with two purl rounds in it. On 4.5 mm the body is stocking stitch except for 22 stitches at the centre front: 2 purl stitches, an 18-stitch braided cable and 2 purl stitches, from an 8-round chart of 3-over-3 cable crosses. At 20 (21, 22) cm, vertical rib panels begin at both sides and at the centre back and are worked for 10 cm — 5 cm in colour A, then 5 cm in colour B; B then goes on in stocking stitch for 5 cm more, making a 10 cm band. The body is finished in A to 40 (42, 43) cm. The sleeves start with the same rib on 3.5 mm needles, are increased at the underarm, and get the same 10 cm band in B from 32 (33, 34) cm. Body and sleeves are joined for a raglan yoke, decreased 8 stitches every other round beside a 2-stitch purl line at each of the four raglan lines; the cable runs on almost to the neck. The neck is 8 rounds of the hem rib on 3.5 mm, bound off loosely, and the underarms are grafted.

Design: Ásta Guðrún Jóhannsdóttir — pattern from Lopi No. 31 (no. 7), 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.

No email? Check your spam folder, then write to support@icelandicstore.is with your order number. A person answers, Monday to Friday.