Lilja — Side-to-Side Button Cardigan Knitting Pattern

Lilja — lily. A women’s button cardigan from Ístex’s Lopi 34, knitted from side to side: the left sleeve, then the body in one piece across the wearer, then the right sleeve — so the pattern bands run up and down, one down each front and three down the back. Two colourways: green — highland green and light beige Álafosslopi, with the dark motifs in two strands of Léttlopi held together, black sheep with rust, stone blue, brick or rose heather — and auburn — sheep sorrel with black, teal heather and amber, all Álafosslopi. The edges are crocheted. Original pattern by Margrét Jóhannesdóttir, redesign by Védís Jónsdóttir; sizes S to XXL. One colour of the green version, rose heather, is no longer made; all the others still are.

What you get

• The knitting pattern in English (PDF), emailed right after purchase — nothing is posted
• Two colourways — green and auburn
• Sizes S, M, L, XL and XXL
• Four charts, each printed for both colourways
• Yarn and needles are not included. The kits have this pattern and all the yarn: the green kit or the auburn kit

Yarn used in the pattern (not included)

Green version: Álafosslopi — 100 g balls · sizes S (M L XL XXL)
A 1230 highland green — 7 (8 8 9 10)
B 0086 light beige — 2 (2 2 2 2)

Green version: Léttlopi — 50 g balls · sizes S (M L XL XXL) — black sheep (C) is held together with D, E, F or G
C 0052 black sheep — 1 (1 1 1 1)
D 9427 rust heather — 1 (1 1 1 1)
E 9418 stone blue — 1 (1 1 1 1)
F 9431 brick heather — 1 (1 1 1 1)
G 9428 rose heather — 1 (1 1 1 1) · no longer made — the green kit uses 1412 pink heather

Auburn version: Álafosslopi — 100 g balls · sizes S (M L XL XXL)
A 1237 sheep sorrel — 7 (8 8 9 9)
B 0059 black — 2 (2 2 2 2)
C 9967 teal heather — 1 (1 1 1 1)
D 9971 amber — 1 (1 1 1 1)

Sizes

Gauge
13 sts × 18 rows = 10 cm (4″) in stocking stitch on 6 mm needles.

Needles
6 mm (US 10) circular needles, 40 and 80 cm — the shorter for the sleeves, the longer for the body
5 mm (US 8) double-pointed needles for the cuff rib and the collar

You will also need
5–6 buttons and a 5.5 mm crochet hook for the edging — both in the pattern’s list — and, though the list leaves them out, waste yarn for the provisional cast-on and for marking the neckline, a sewing machine and thread for the cut edges, stitch markers and a tapestry needle.

How it is knitted
Knitted from side to side. The left sleeve is knitted in the round from the cuff up: K1, P1 rib that starts with three one-round stripes in the contrast colours, then 10 rounds of chart 1, and increases at the underarm to 53 (55, 57, 59, 61) stitches. For the body, 65 (67, 68, 69, 70) stitches are cast on provisionally either side of the sleeve stitches — 183 (189, 193, 197, 201) in all — and the body is knitted in the round across the wearer, with two purled steek stitches at the lower edge: plain rounds, the 23-round chart 2, more plain rounds, then the 7-round chart 3 over the back only, while the front stitches are bound off and cast on again in the middle round to make the front opening. The second half mirrors the first, the side stitches are joined with a three-needle bind-off, and the right sleeve is knitted down to its cuff, with chart 4, as a mirror of the left. The provisional stitches are bound off together in the same way, the lower-edge steek is sewn twice by machine and cut, and the neckline is marked with scrap yarn, sewn by machine and cut. The collar is picked up, 53 (53, 53, 59, 59) stitches, and knitted back and forth: 8 rows, a fold row, 8 rows. Last, four rounds of single crochet are worked round the hem, fronts and collar, with 5–6 buttonholes in the third round on the right front.

Original pattern: Margrét Jóhannesdóttir. Redesign: Védís Jónsdóttir. Instructions: Astrid Ellingsen, revised by Hulda Hákonardóttir — pattern from Lopi No. 34 (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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