Lopi 18 No. 17 — Brown Yoke Sweater with Placket and Collar Knitting Pattern

Sunneva Hafsteinsdóttir’s round-yoke sweater from Ístex’s Lopi 18, adapted by Védís Jónsdóttir and knitted in Álafosslopi from the bottom up: a brown tweed pullover with a yoke of black heather diamonds framed in white, a short opening with three buttons at the front of the yoke, and a deep K2, P2 rib collar, worn folded over in the photo. A matching border sits above the hem and cuffs. One colour version, in four sizes from S to XL, with sleeve lengths for women and for men. The main colour, medium brown tweed (9453), is no longer made; the white and the black heather still are.

What you get

• The knitting pattern in English (PDF), emailed right after purchase — nothing is posted
• Four sizes, S 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 kit

Yarn used in the pattern (not included)

Álafosslopi — 100 g balls · sizes S (M L XL) — one set of amounts for both sleeve lengths
M 9453 medium brown tweed — 7 (8 8 9) · no longer made — the kit uses 0053 acorn heather, a close brown but a plain heather, without the tweed flecks
A 0051 white — 2 (2 2 2)
B 0005 black heather — 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 hem rib — the front bands and the collar are knitted back and forth 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 40 to 46 stitches, about 31 to 35 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
3 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 opening is cut; and a tapestry needle for grafting the underarms and sewing on the bands and their facings.

How it is knitted
Knitted in the round from the bottom up. The body is cast on with 120 (128, 136, 144) stitches in the main colour on the 4.5 mm circular, knitted in K2, P2 rib for 6 (6, 7, 7) cm and increased to 130 (140, 150, 160) stitches. On 6 mm comes an 8-round border of white and black heather from chart 1, then the body goes on in the main colour to 40 (42, 43, 44) cm. The sleeves are cast on with 32 (32, 36, 36) stitches on 4.5 mm double-pointed needles, ribbed in K2, P2 for 6 (6, 7, 7) cm, increased to 40 (40, 46, 46), given the same border on 6 mm and increased every 8th round for women or every 9th for men to 54 (56, 60, 62) stitches. Body and sleeves are joined for the round yoke, 210 (220, 230, 240) stitches, and rounds 1–16 of the 43-round yoke chart — with the band of black heather diamonds framed in white — are knitted in the round. Then the 5 centre-front stitches go on a holder and a stitch is cast on at each side of the gap; these two stitches are purled all the way up, and the yoke goes on in the round, with smaller motifs and white tulip-like shapes near the neck, decreased in four rounds to 85 (89, 93, 97) stitches; the smaller sizes leave out marked rounds. Two rows of machine stitching go up the centre of each purl column, and the opening is cut between them. A button band, cast on separately, and a buttonhole band, knitted from the 5 held stitches, each have a 3-stitch facing that folds over the cut edge; they are sewn on and the facings slip-stitched. The collar is knitted back and forth on 4.5 mm across the bands and the yoke in K2, P2 rib, decreased to 72 (72, 76, 76) stitches on its first row, with the third buttonhole near its start, until it measures 17 cm. The underarm stitches are grafted.

Design: Sunneva Hafsteinsdóttir, adapted by Védís Jónsdóttir — pattern from Lopi No. 18 (no. 17), 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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