Gréta — Cabled Jöklalopi Cardigan Knitting Pattern

Gréta is a cabled cardigan in Jöklalopi (the pattern calls it Bulky Lopi) on 9 mm needles, from Ístex’s Lopi 27, designed by Védís Jónsdóttir. The body is knitted back and forth with a cable up each front, the sleeves start with a short cable panel, and the yoke is shaped with decreases while the front cables carry on to the neck. The front bands are K2, P2 rib in the thinner Álafosslopi in black heather, with eight buttonholes in the right band. One colourway — ash with black heather bands — in sizes S to XL. The leaflet’s title says “Gréta (Sweater)”, but it is a button cardigan. Both colours are still made.

What you get

• The knitting pattern in English (PDF), emailed right after purchase — nothing is posted
• One colourway — ash with black heather bands
• Sizes S, M, L and XL
• Two yoke charts (sizes S/M and L/XL) and the two cables, with a key
• Yarn and needles are not included. The kit has this pattern and all the yarn: the Gréta kit

Yarn used in the pattern (not included)

Jöklalopi — 100 g hanks · sizes S (M L XL)
A 0054 ash — 6 (7 7 8)

Álafosslopi — 100 g balls · sizes S (M L XL) — for the front bands
B 0005 black heather — 1 (1 1 1)

Sizes

Gauge
9 stitches and 13 rows = 10 cm (4″) in stocking stitch on 9 mm needles.

Needles
9 mm (US 13) circular needles, 40 and 60–80 cm — for the body and the yoke
9 mm (US 13) double-pointed needles for the sleeves
8 mm (US 11) circular needle, 60 cm — for the short rows at the top of the yoke
6 mm (US 10) circular needle, 80 cm — for the front bands, picked up in Álafosslopi

You will also need
A cable needle and 8 buttons — both in the pattern’s list, which gives no button size — and, though the list leaves them out, stitch holders for the underarm stitches and a tapestry needle.

How it is knitted
The body is cast on in Jöklalopi on 9 mm and knitted back and forth in stocking stitch from the lower edge — no rib — with a 4-stitch cable between purl stitches 2 stitches in from each front edge, to 29 (32, 32, 35) cm. The sleeves are knitted in the round on double-pointed needles, also with no rib: a cable panel in the middle is crossed 3 times — the left cable on the left sleeve, the right cable on the right sleeve — and then the sleeve goes on in stocking stitch. “At same time”, as the pattern puts it, one stitch is increased every 5th round, in turn after the first and before the last stitch of the round, 10 (11, 10, 11) times. Body and sleeves are joined at 119 (127, 135, 143) stitches and the yoke is knitted back and forth from a chart — 24 rows for S and M, 28 for L and XL — with the front cables carrying on and the decreases set in wedges, to 41 (43, 45, 47) stitches. Then short rows on 8 mm, from the rows marked 1, 2 and 3 above the chart — the first two turn at a cable, the third goes to the end — and the yoke is bound off. The front bands are picked up in Álafosslopi on 6 mm, one stitch in every row from the lower edge to the neck, and knitted in K2, P2 rib — 2 rows, a row with eight buttonholes in the right band, 2 more rows — and bound off in rib. The underarms are grafted and the buttons sewn on.

Design: Védís Jónsdóttir — pattern from Lopi No. 27 (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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