Kjarr — Children’s Garter-Yoke Sweater Knitting Pattern

Kjarr — brushwood. Guðrún Ragna Sigurjónsdóttir’s pullover for children from Ístex’s Lopi 30 is knitted in Léttlopi from the neck down: a garter-stitch yoke worked back and forth, with raglan lines of yarn overs and an opening at the back closed with three buttons, then a stocking-stitch body and sleeves knitted in the round, with garter ridges at the hem and cuffs. The pattern has two versions — one colour, barley, and two-tone, dark grey with the yoke striped in light grey — in sizes 2 to 8 years. All three colours are still made by Ístex.

What you get

• The knitting pattern in English (PDF), emailed right after purchase — nothing is posted
• Two versions — one colour (barley) and two-tone (dark grey and light grey)
• Four sizes — 2, 4, 6 and 8 years
• Yarn and needles are not included. The kits have this pattern and all the yarn: the barley kit or the grey two-tone kit

Yarn used in the pattern (not included)

Solid-colour version: Léttlopi — 50 g balls · sizes 2 (4, 6, 8) years
A 1419 barley — 4 (4 5 5)

Two-tone version: Léttlopi — 50 g balls · sizes 2 (4, 6, 8) years
A 0058 dark grey — 4 (4 5 5)
B 0056 light grey — 1 (1 1 1)

Sizes

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

Needles
3.5 mm (US 4) and 4.5 mm (US 7) circular needles, 40 and 60 cm
3.5 mm and 4.5 mm double-pointed needles

You will also need
3 buttons (in the pattern’s list), waste yarn for the sleeve stitches, a stitch marker for the start of the sleeve rounds, and a tapestry needle for sewing down the button borders.

How it is knitted
Knitted from the neck down. The yoke is cast on with 56 (59, 60, 64) stitches on 4.5 mm and knitted back and forth in garter stitch, with an opening at the centre back; on every right-side row a yarn over either side of a purled stitch at the four raglan lines adds 8 stitches, 16 (17, 18, 18) times, to 184 (195, 204, 208). In the two-tone version the yoke is striped: after 3 rows of dark grey, 2 rows of light grey, 2 rows of dark grey and so on. The sleeve stitches go on waste yarn, stitches are cast on at the underarms and 3 more at the back, and the body is joined and knitted in the round in stocking stitch to 21 (23, 27, 33) cm from the underarm, then 5 rounds on 3.5 mm — purl, knit, purl, knit, purl — and bound off. The sleeves are picked up with 4 (4, 6, 6) more stitches at the underarm, knitted in the round on 4.5 mm, decreased every 6th round and finished with the same garter-ridge cuff on 3.5 mm. Last, garter borders are picked up along both sides of the back opening on 3.5 mm, one with three buttonholes; it is laid over the other and sewn down at the bottom.

Design: Guðrún Ragna Sigurjónsdóttir — pattern from Lopi No. 30 (no. 6), 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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