Lopi 18 No. 9 & 10 — Round-Yoke Sweater Knitting Pattern

Lopi 18 nos. 9 and 10 are one pattern: Anna Árnadóttir’s round-yoke sweater from Ístex’s Lopi 18, in Álafosslopi for women and men, in sizes XS to XL with two sleeve lengths, in two colour versions. Design 9 is black heather with light gray and white: a white zigzag at the base of the yoke, small grey motifs and long white and grey stripes to the neck, a matching border above the light gray rib at the hem and cuffs, and a light gray neckband folded in half. Design 10 is pond heather with light forest heather and midnight blue, with striped rib and a striped neckband folded at a purl round. Every colour in Design 9 is still made; in Design 10, pond heather (9736) and light forest heather (0013) are not, and midnight blue (0709) is. Our shop sells a kit for Design 9 under the name Herðubreið.

What you get

• The knitting pattern in English (PDF), emailed right after purchase — nothing is posted
• Both colour versions — Design 9 in black heather, light gray and white, and Design 10 in pond heather, light forest heather and midnight blue
• Five sizes, XS to XL, with 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. Our kit for Design 9 has this pattern and the yarn for Design 9: Herðubreið. There is no kit for Design 10

Yarn used in the pattern (not included)

Design 9: Álafosslopi — 100 g balls · sizes XS (S M L XL) — one set of amounts for both sleeve lengths
M 0005 black heather — 5 (6 6 7 7)
A 0056 light gray — 2 (3 3 3 3)
B 0051 white — 1 (1 1 1 1)

Design 10: Álafosslopi — 100 g balls · sizes XS (S M L XL)
M 9736 pond heather — 5 (6 6 7 7) · no longer made
A 0013 light forest heather — 1 (2 2 2 2) · no longer made
B 0709 midnight blue — 1 (1 1 1 1)

Sizes

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

Needles
4.5 mm (US 7) circular needle, 80 cm — for the rib at the hem
4.5 mm (US 7) double-pointed needles — for the cuffs and the neckband
6 mm (US 10) circular needles, 40 and 80 cm — for the body, the sleeves and the yoke
By our reading also 6 mm (US 10) double-pointed needles for the sleeves: they change to 6 mm with 42 to 48 stitches after the first round, about 32 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 (in the pattern’s list), and a tapestry needle for grafting the underarms and sewing down the neckband, which the list leaves out.

How it is knitted
Both designs are knitted the same way, in the round from the bottom up, from the same charts. The body is cast on with 118 (124, 130, 136, 140) stitches on the 4.5 mm circular: Design 9 in light gray for 6 (6, 6, 7, 7) cm of K1, P1 rib, Design 10 in pond heather for K1, P1 rib in stripes — 4 rounds of pond heather, 3 of midnight blue and 3 of light forest heather. On 6 mm one round is knitted in colour A with 14 (14, 14, 14, 16) stitches increased, to 132 (138, 144, 150, 156); a 9-round border from chart 1 follows, then the main colour to 38 (40, 42, 43, 44) cm. The sleeves are cast on with 28 (30, 30, 32, 32) stitches on 4.5 mm double-pointed needles and ribbed like the body, increased to 42 (42, 42, 48, 48) in a round of colour A on 6 mm, given the same border with 1 stitch increased at each end of its last round, then increased at both ends of every 8th round for women or every 9th for men, 4 (5, 6, 5, 6) times, to 52 (54, 56, 60, 62). Body and sleeves are joined for the round yoke — 204 (210, 216, 234, 240) stitches — and a 43-round chart with four decrease rounds takes it down to 68 (70, 72, 78, 80); sizes XS to L leave out marked rounds — 36 (38, 39, 41, 43) rounds in all. The neckband is K1, P1 rib on 4.5 mm double-pointed needles, decreased to 54 (54, 54, 56, 58) stitches on its first round: for Design 9, 8 cm in light gray, folded in half to the inside; for Design 10, 2 rounds of light forest heather, 3 of midnight blue and 5 of pond heather, a purl round in pond heather as the foldline and 10 more rounds of rib, folded back along the foldline. Both are cast off loosely and slip-stitched, and the underarm stitches are grafted.

Design: Anna Árnadóttir — pattern from Lopi No. 18 (nos. 9 and 10), 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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