Lopi 12 No. 15 — Navy Yoke Cardigan Knitting Pattern

Guðríður Aðalsteinsdóttir’s round-yoke cardigan from Ístex’s Lopi 12, knitted in Álafosslopi in the round and cut open at the front, for women and men — one colour version, in five sizes from XS to XL, with a sleeve length and a button side for each. In the photo it is navy, with a yoke of white zigzags, blue diamonds and long blue shapes rising to the neck, and the same blue and white border above the ribbed hem and cuffs. The ribbed front bands have a knitted facing folded over the cut edge, and the buttons go up to a folded neckband. The leaflet prints only the colour numbers; the navy (0709) and the white (0051) are still made, but the blue, 9390, is not.

What you get

• The knitting pattern in English (PDF), emailed right after purchase — nothing is posted
• Five sizes, XS to XL
• Sleeve lengths and button sides for women and for men
• Two charts — the border above the hem and cuffs, and the yoke
• Yarn and needles are not included. The kit has this pattern and all the yarn: the navy cardigan kit

Yarn used in the pattern (not included)

Álafosslopi — 100 g balls · sizes XS (S M L XL) — the leaflet prints only the colour numbers; midnight blue and white are our shop’s names; no name is printed for 9390, a mid blue in the photo
M 0709 midnight blue — 7 (7 8 8 9)
A 9390 (no name printed; blue in the photo) — 2 (2 2 2 2) · no longer made — the kit uses 1234 blue tweed, a blue of the same hue but darker, with small white flecks
B 0051 white — 1 (1 1 1 1)

Sizes

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

Needles
4.5 mm (US 7) circular needle, 80 cm, for the welt; the front bands and the neckband are knitted on 4.5 mm too
6 mm (US 10) circular needles, 40 and 80 cm, for the body and the yoke
4.5 mm (US 7) double-pointed needles for the cuffs
By our reading also 6 mm (US 10) double-pointed needles for the sleeves: they change to 6 mm with only 42 to 48 stitches after the first round, too few for a 40 cm circular. The pattern’s list leaves them out
The pattern calls a circular needle a “twin pin”

You will also need
6 (6, 7, 7, 7) buttons — the pattern gives no size — and stitch holders, both in the pattern’s list; a sewing machine and thread for the stitching before the front is cut; and a tapestry needle for sewing on the bands, slip-stitching the facings and the neckband and grafting the underarms.

How it is knitted
The welt is K1, P1 rib knitted back and forth on the 4.5 mm circular, with the first and last stitch knitted on every row and the first buttonhole at 2 cm, to 6 (6, 6, 7, 7) cm. The 8 stitches at each front edge then go onto holders for the bands, and the rest are increased to 131 (137, 143, 149, 155). On 6 mm, 2 stitches are cast on at the centre front and purled all the way up, and the body is knitted in the round: an 11-round border from chart 1 in all three colours, then the navy (M) to 38 (40, 42, 43, 44) cm. The sleeves are knitted in the round from 6 (6, 6, 7, 7) cm of K1, P1 rib on 4.5 mm double-pointed needles, get the same border, and are increased every 7th round for women or every 8th for men. Body and sleeves are joined for the round yoke — a 43-round chart in all three colours with four decrease rounds, from 205 (211, 217, 235, 241) stitches to 71 (73, 75, 81, 83); the smaller sizes leave out marked rounds. Two rows of machine stitching go up the centre of each column of purl stitches, and the front is cut open between them. Each front band is knitted from its 8 held stitches, with 3 stitches cast on for a stocking-stitch facing, until it reaches the neckline when slightly stretched; it is sewn on, and the facing is folded over the cut edge on the wrong side and slip-stitched. The buttonhole band has 4 (4, 5, 5, 5) buttonholes. The neckband is knitted back and forth in rib on 4.5 mm with one more buttonhole, folded in half to the inside and slip-stitched, and the underarms are grafted.

Design: Guðríður Aðalsteinsdóttir — pattern from Lopi No. 12 (no. 15), 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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