Húm — V-Neck Plötulopi Sweater Knitting Pattern

Húm — twilight. Védís Jónsdóttir’s V-neck sweater from Ístex’s Lopi 26, knitted from the shoulders down with three strands of Plötulopi held together, so the colours blend into one heathered mix. Near the hem one strand is swapped for a second strand of the darkest colour, which makes a darker band at the hem, and the sleeves are knitted with two strands. The pattern has two colour versions with the same amounts — blue (winter blue, navy and arctic blue) and grey (dark grey, black heather and grey heather) — in sizes S to XXL; in the photo a woman wears the blue one and a man the grey.

What you get

• The knitting pattern in English (PDF), emailed right after purchase — nothing is posted
• Two colour versions — blue and grey
• Sizes S, M, L, XL and XXL
• Yarn and needles are not included. The kits have this pattern and all the yarn: the blue kit or the grey kit

Yarn used in the pattern (not included)

Blue sweater: Plötulopi — 100 g plates · sizes S (M L XL XXL)
A 1432 winter blue — 2 (2 3 3 3)
B 0118 navy — 2 (2 3 3 3)
C 1431 arctic blue — 1 (1 2 2 2)

Grey sweater: Plötulopi — 100 g plates · sizes S (M L XL XXL)
A 9103 dark grey — 2 (2 3 3 3)
B 0005 black heather — 2 (2 3 3 3)
C 9102 grey heather — 1 (1 2 2 2)

Sizes

Gauge
11 sts × 16 rows = 10 cm (4″) in stocking stitch on 7 mm needles with three strands of Plötulopi; 14 sts × 19 rows on 5.5 mm with two strands.

Needles
7 mm (US 10¾) circular needle, 80 cm, for the back, the fronts and the body — the pattern prints no US size for it
5.5 mm (US 9) circular needles, 40 and 80 cm, for the hem rib and the sleeves
4.5 mm (US 7) and 5.5 mm (US 9) double-pointed needles for the lower sleeves and the cuffs

You will also need
A 4.5 mm (US 7) crochet hook for the neck edge (in the pattern’s list), plus a little waste yarn for the provisional cast-on, dark elastic thread to baste inside the neck and 2 stitch markers, which the instructions use but the list leaves out.

How it is knitted
Knitted from the shoulders down. The back and the two fronts are knitted flat in stocking stitch with three strands, A+B+C, on 7 mm. Each front starts from a provisional cast-on in waste yarn and widens at the neck edge to shape the V; the fronts are joined with one cast-on stitch, and at 22 (23, 24, 25, 26) cm from the shoulder back and front are joined in the round, with 4 (4, 6, 6, 6) stitches cast on under each straight armhole. The body is decreased 2 stitches at each side at 33 (34, 35, 36, 37) cm, and at 53 (54, 55, 57, 58) cm C is swapped for a second strand of B for the darker hem band, with one more side decrease 2 cm later — the pattern says to skip the side decreases if you want the body wider. The body ends in 3 cm of K1, P1 rib on 5.5 mm. The shoulders are grafted. The sleeves are picked up round the armholes with two strands on 5.5 mm — A+C for blue, B+C for grey — knitted down in the round, decreased at the underarm, changed to A+B after 10 cm and finished with 3 cm of K1, P1 rib on 4.5 mm. The neck is edged with a round of single crochet in A+B, and dark elastic thread is basted inside it to keep its shape.

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