Lopi 12 No. 9 — Dark Green Yoke Sweater, Hat and Fingerless Gloves Knitting Pattern

Guðrún Jónsdóttir’s round-yoke pullover from Ístex’s Lopi 12, knitted in Álafosslopi in the round from the bottom up, for men and women — one colour version, in five sizes from XS to XL, with a sleeve length for each. In the photo it is a dark olive green, with a deep yoke of pale grey scallops and honeycomb shapes filled with khaki and dark green, the same small border above the rib at the hem and cuffs, and a folded neckband. The same leaflet has a plain hat with a rolled edge and a pair of fingerless gloves, both in the main colour. The leaflet prints only the colour numbers: the pale grey (0054) is still made, but both greens — 9239 and 9240, loden green and golden green in Ístex’s Lopi 18 leaflets — are not.

What you get

• The knitting pattern in English (PDF), emailed right after purchase — nothing is posted
• Five sizes, XS to XL
• Sleeve lengths for women and for men
• The hat in two sizes and the fingerless gloves in three
• 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 sweater, hat and gloves kit

Yarn used in the pattern (not included)

Sweater: Álafosslopi — 100 g balls · sizes XS (S M L XL) — the leaflet prints only the colour numbers; loden green and golden green are Ístex’s names for 9239 and 9240 in its Lopi 18 leaflets, light ash heather is our shop’s name for 0054
M 9239 loden green — 7 (7 8 8 8) · no longer made — the kit uses 9966 cypress green heather, a very dark green heather with small coloured flecks, close to the dark olive green in the photo
A 0054 light ash heather — 2 (2 2 2 3)
B 9240 golden green — 1 (1 1 1 2) · no longer made — the kit uses 1230 highland green, darker and browner than the khaki green in the photo

Hat: Álafosslopi — 100 g balls · sizes M (L) — one ball for either size
G 9239 loden green — 1 · no longer made — the kit uses 9966 cypress green heather

Fingerless gloves: Álafosslopi — 100 g balls · sizes S (M L) — one ball for any size
G 9239 loden green — 1 · no longer made — the kit uses 9966 cypress green heather

Sizes

Gauge
13 sts × 18 rows = 10 cm (4″) in stocking stitch on 6 mm needles. The hat and gloves give the same gauge.

Needles
4.5 mm (US 7) circular needle, 80 cm, for the hem rib
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 and the neckband, and for the ribbed parts of the gloves
Hat and gloves: 6 mm (US 10) double-pointed needles — the hat’s list prints them in Icelandic, “Sokkaprjónar nr. 6”
By our reading the sweater sleeves need the 6 mm double-pointed needles too: they change to 6 mm with only 42 to 48 stitches, too few for a 40 cm circular. The sweater’s list leaves them out
The pattern calls a circular needle a “twin pin”

You will also need
Stitch holders for the underarm stitches (in the pattern’s list); and, which the pattern uses but does not list, a short length of contrast yarn and 2 stitch markers for the gloves, and a tapestry needle for grafting the underarms and sewing down the neckband.

How it is knitted
Knitted in the round from the bottom up. The body is cast on with 118 (124, 130, 136, 140) stitches in M on the 4.5 mm circular for 6 (6, 6, 7, 7) cm of K1, P1 rib, then increased to 132 (138, 144, 150, 156) on 6 mm. A 10-round border from chart 1 in all three colours comes next, then the body goes on in M to 38 (40, 42, 43, 44) cm. The sleeves start with the same rib on 4.5 mm double-pointed needles, get the same border on 6 mm, and are increased every 7th round for women or every 8th for men, to 54 (56, 58, 62, 64) stitches. Body and sleeves are joined for the round yoke — a 43-round chart in all three colours with five decrease rounds, from 200 (208, 216, 232, 240) stitches to 75 (78, 81, 87, 90); the smaller sizes leave out marked rounds. The neckband is 8 cm of K1, P1 rib on 4.5 mm double-pointed needles, folded in half to the inside and slip-stitched, and the underarms are grafted. The hat is stocking stitch in the round on 6 mm double-pointed needles from 63 (66) stitches, with no rib — its edge rolls up — and a crown decreased in three steps and drawn together. The fingerless gloves start with 7 cm of K1, P1 rib on 4.5 mm and go on in stocking stitch on 6 mm; the thumb opening is knitted with a scrap of contrast yarn — at the start of the round on the right glove, just before the halfway marker on the left — and each glove ends with 3 rounds of rib. For the thumb, the contrast yarn is pulled out, 12 (12, 14) stitches are picked up round the opening, and the thumb is knitted for 5 (5, 6) rounds and finished with 2 rounds of rib.

Design: Guðrún Jónsdóttir — pattern from Lopi No. 12 (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.

No email? Check your spam folder, then write to support@icelandicstore.is with your order number. A person answers, Monday to Friday.