Lopi 18 No. 22 & 23 — Round-Yoke Sweater Knitting Pattern

Lopi 18 nos. 22 and 23 are one pattern: Arnþrúður Ösp Karlsdóttir’s round-yoke sweater from Ístex’s Lopi 18, for women and men, in two colour versions the leaflet calls Design 22 and Design 23. It is knitted in Álafosslopi in the round from the bottom up, with a yoke of large pointed shapes, zigzags and small diamonds, a border of diagonal lines and small trees above the hem and cuffs, and a folded neckband. Design 22 is dark gray with white; Design 23 is monet, a mid-blue tweed, with navy, and has navy edges at the hem, cuffs and neck. Three sizes — XS, M and XL. Monet (9735) is no longer made; the other three colours are.

What you get

• The knitting pattern in English (PDF), emailed right after purchase — nothing is posted
• Both numbers in one pattern: Design 22, dark grey with white, and Design 23, monet blue with navy — one set of instructions
• Sizes XS, M and XL
• Sleeve lengths for women and for men
• Two charts — the border above the hem and cuffs, and the yoke — with a key for each design
• Yarn and needles are not included. The kits have this pattern and all the yarn: the dark grey No. 22 kit or the blue No. 23 kit

Yarn used in the pattern (not included)

Design 22: Álafosslopi — 100 g balls · sizes XS (M XL) — one set of amounts for both sleeve lengths
M 0058 dark gray — 6 (7 8)
A 0051 white — 2 (2 2)

Design 23: Álafosslopi — 100 g balls · sizes XS (M XL) — one set of amounts for both sleeve lengths
M 9735 monet — 6 (7 8) · no longer made — the No. 23 kit uses 1234 blue tweed, a similar mid-blue a shade darker, with white flecks where monet has small red, pink and turquoise ones
A 0118 navy — 2 (3 3)

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
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
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
Stitch holders for the underarm stitches (the pattern lists them), 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 116 (130, 146) stitches on the 4.5 mm circular. Design 22: 6 (6, 7) cm of K1, P1 rib in dark gray. Design 23: cast on in navy and purl 2 rounds, then change to monet, knit 1 round and work K1, P1 rib until it measures 6 (6, 7) cm. Both are increased to 126 (144, 162) stitches. On 6 mm comes a 10-round border of diagonal lines and small trees from chart 1, in white or navy, then the body goes on in the main colour to 38 (42, 44) cm. The sleeves are cast on with 28 (30, 32) stitches on 4.5 mm double-pointed needles (in dark gray for Design 22, in navy for Design 23) and ribbed as the body, increased to 40 (42, 48), given the same border on 6 mm, with an increase at each end of its last round, and then increased every 8th round for women or every 9th for men to 52 (56, 62) stitches. Body and sleeves are joined for the round yoke, 198 (216, 234) stitches — in size XL 8 stitches are decreased as they are joined — and the yoke is knitted from a 43-round chart of large pointed shapes, zigzags and small diamonds with six decrease rounds, to 66 (72, 78); sizes XS and M leave out marked rounds. The neckband is knitted on 4.5 mm double-pointed needles and decreased to 54 (54, 58) stitches on its first round: Design 22, 8 cm of K1, P1 rib in dark gray; Design 23, 7 rounds of rib in monet, then in navy 1 round knit, 3 rounds purl and 9 rounds of rib. It is folded in half to the inside and slip-stitched — on Design 23 the navy purl rounds make the top edge — and the underarm stitches are grafted.

Design: Arnþrúður Ösp Karlsdóttir — pattern from Lopi No. 18 (nos. 22 and 23), 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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