Hvarf — Sweater or Dress with Cape Collar Knitting Pattern

Hvarf is a Léttlopi sweater or dress with a wide cape collar, from Ístex’s Lopi 29, designed by Védís Jónsdóttir. Body and sleeves are knitted in the round; the body is shaped with decreases and then increases at the sides. The yoke itself is plain; the colourwork is on a cape collar knitted up from the neck and widened in five increase rounds, with a matching band above the cuffs. The pattern has two colour versions in sizes XS to XL: a crimson sweater with black sleeves and a black-edged cape in eight bright colours, and a chocolate dress with black cuffs and a cape in browns, olive greens, beige and white. Two colours of the red sweater — 1410 orange and 9264 mustard — are no longer made.

What you get

• The knitting pattern in English (PDF), emailed right after purchase — nothing is posted
• Two colour versions — a red sweater and a brown dress
• Sizes XS, S, M, L and XL
• Two charts for each version — the sleeve band and the cape collar — with a key for each
• Yarn and needles are not included. The kit has this pattern and all the yarn: the Hvarf kit — red sweater or brown dress

Yarn used in the pattern (not included)

Red sweater with black sleeves: Léttlopi — 50 g balls · sizes XS (S M L XL)
A 9434 crimson — 6 (6 6 7 7)
B 1414 violet — 1 (1 1 1 1)
C 1410 orange — 1 (1 1 1 1) · no longer made — the kit uses 1704 apricot
D 1402 heaven blue — 1 (1 1 1 1)
E 9423 lagoon — 1 (1 1 1 1)
F 1406 spring green — 1 (1 1 1 1)
G 0059 black — 4 (4 4 5 5)
H 9264 mustard — 1 (1 1 1 1) · no longer made — the kit uses 9426 golden heather
I 1412 pink — 1 (1 1 1 1)

Brown dress: Léttlopi — 50 g balls · sizes XS (S M L XL)
A 0867 chocolate — 9 (10 10 11 11)
B 1417 frostbite — 1 (1 1 1 1)
C 1419 barley — 1 (1 1 1 1)
D 1420 murky — 1 (1 1 1 1)
E 1416 moor — 1 (1 1 1 1)
F 0059 black — 2 (2 2 2 2)
G 1418 straw — 1 (1 1 1 1)
H 0086 light beige — 1 (1 1 1 1)
I 0051 white — 1 (1 1 1 1)

Sizes

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

Needles
3.5 mm (US 4) circular needles, 40 and 60–80 cm — for the sweater’s hem rib and the rib of the collar
4.5 mm (US 7) circular needles, 40 and 60–80 cm — for the body (and the dress’s hem rib), the yoke and the cape
3.5 mm and 5 mm (US 8) double-pointed needles for the sleeves — 3.5 mm for the cuffs, 5 mm for the colourwork band; after the band the sleeves go on in 4.5 mm, which the list gives only as circular needles

You will also need
Markers — in the pattern’s list — and, though the list leaves them out, stitch holders for the underarm stitches and a tapestry needle.

How it is knitted
Sweater: 148 (156, 164, 172, 180) stitches are cast on loosely in crimson on 3.5 mm and knitted in twisted rib (knit 1 through the back loop, purl 1) for 3 cm, then in stocking stitch on 4.5 mm. Dress: 156 (164, 172, 180, 188) stitches in chocolate, twisted rib on 4.5 mm. Both are decreased at the sides — the sweater three times, the dress five — and increased again three times, to 148 (156, 164, 172, 180) stitches. The sleeves start with 3 cm of twisted rib on 3.5 mm double-pointed needles — crimson for the sweater, black for the dress — then a 34-round colourwork band on 5 mm, then plain on 4.5 mm in black (sweater) or chocolate (dress). Body and sleeves are joined and the round yoke is knitted plain in the main colour, decreased in five rounds from 224 (232, 240, 248, 256) stitches to 84 (87, 90, 93, 96), with short rows at the back. The cape collar starts with 4 cm of twisted rib in black on 3.5 mm; then the work is turned and knitted from the wrong side on 4.5 mm, increased in five rounds to 200 (208, 216, 224, 232) stitches, and the 38-round chart is knitted. It ends with a knit, a purl and a knit round and is bound off purlwise. The underarms are grafted.

Design: Védís Jónsdóttir — pattern from Lopi No. 29 (no. 12), 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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