Lopi 18 No. 15 — Round-Yoke Cardigan Knitting Pattern

Guðrún Sveinsdóttir’s buttoned cardigan from Ístex’s Lopi 18, knitted in Álafosslopi for women and men, with sleeve lengths and button sides for each. It has a dark sienna body and a round yoke of vanilla zigzags and small vanilla motifs on bands of golden green and black, with vanilla spokes on black at the neck; a small border of black diamonds on golden green between vanilla lines sits above the ribbed hem and cuffs and in the neckband. The body and yoke are knitted in the round and the front is cut open. One colour version, five sizes from XS to XL. Three of the four colours are no longer made — dark sienna (9118), vanilla (9718) and golden green (9240); black (0059) still is.

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
• Three charts — the border above the hem and cuffs, the yoke and the neckband
• Yarn and needles are not included. The kit has this pattern and all the yarn: the chocolate brown kit

Yarn used in the pattern (not included)

Álafosslopi — 100 g balls · sizes XS (S M L XL)
M 9118 dark sienna — 6 (7 7 8 8) · no longer made — the kit uses 0867 chocolate heather, a dark brown of the same depth, less red than the cardigan looks in the sunlit photo
A 9718 vanilla — 2 (2 2 2 2) · no longer made — the kit uses 1235 ray of light, a pale warm cream with a slight peach tint; the vanilla in the photo looks more yellow
B 9240 golden green — 1 (1 1 1 1) · no longer made — the kit uses 1230 highland green, a little browner than the olive green in the photo
C 0059 black — 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
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 — the front bands and the neckband are also knitted on 4.5 mm needles
By our reading also 6 mm (US 10) double-pointed needles for the sleeves: they change to 6 mm with only 40 to 48 stitches, about 31 to 37 cm 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
Buttons — 6 (6, 7, 7, 7), in the pattern’s list, which gives no size; stitch holders for the front-band and underarm stitches (also in the list); and, which the list leaves out, a sewing machine and thread to secure the front before it is cut, and a tapestry needle for sewing on the bands and facings and grafting the underarms.

How it is knitted
The welt is K1, P1 rib in dark sienna, knitted back and forth on the 4.5 mm circular with the first buttonhole at 2 cm; at 6 (6, 6, 7, 7) cm, 8 stitches at each front edge go onto holders for the bands. The body is then knitted in the round on 6 mm, with 2 purl stitches cast on at the centre front: a 7-round border from chart 1 — small black diamonds on golden green between two vanilla lines — then dark sienna to 38 (40, 42, 43, 44) cm. The sleeves are knitted in the round from a ribbed cuff, get the same border on 6 mm, and are increased every 8th round for women or every 9th for men, to 52 (54, 56, 60, 62) stitches. Body and sleeves are joined for the round yoke — 201 (207, 213, 231, 237) stitches — and a 43-round chart with four decrease rounds takes it down to 69 (71, 73, 79, 81); the smaller sizes leave out marked rounds. Two rows of machine stitching go into each purl stitch up the front, and the front is cut open between them once the button band is knitted. The 8-stitch ribbed front bands are knitted from the held stitches with a 3-stitch stocking-stitch facing that folds over the cut edge, and sewn on. The neckband is knitted back and forth across the bands and the yoke: a 6-row band from chart 3 — a vanilla line, three rows of small black diamonds on golden green, a vanilla line and a row of dark sienna — with the top buttonhole in the band rib, then a dark sienna facing folded to the inside along a purl fold line and slip-stitched. The underarm stitches are grafted.

Design: Guðrún Sveinsdóttir — pattern from Lopi No. 18 (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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