Manitoba — Flower Yoke Sweater Knitting Pattern

Manitoba is Lars Rains’s round-yoke pullover for Ístex’s 25-year pattern series, knitted in Léttlopi in the round from the bottom up. It is straw, with a yoke of violet and lilac flowers above a band of green leaves, a small border of yellow and green dots above the hem and cuffs, and a white stripe in the rib at the hem, the cuffs and the folded neckband. Six sizes from XS to XXL; the pattern’s schematic calls it a women’s pullover. Two of its eight colours are no longer made — sun yellow (1411) and lilac (1413).

What you get

• The knitting pattern in English (PDF), emailed right after purchase — nothing is posted
• Six sizes, XS to XXL
• Two colour charts — the border above the rib and the yoke — and a measurement diagram
• A page of techniques: short rows with yarn overs, yarn dominance and an Icelandic bind-off
• Yarn and needles are not included. The kit has this pattern and all the yarn: the straw kit

Yarn used in the pattern (not included)

Léttlopi — 50 g balls · sizes XS (S M L XL XXL)
A 1418 straw — 6 (7 7 8 8 9)
B 0051 white — 2 (2 2 3 3 3)
C 1411 sun yellow — 1 (1 1 1 1 1) · no longer made — the kit uses 1703 mimosa in its place
D 1417 frostbite — 1 (1 1 1 1 1)
E 9421 celery green — 1 (1 1 1 1 1)
F 1406 spring green — 1 (1 1 1 1 1)
G 1414 violet — 1 (1 1 1 1 1)
H 1413 lilac — 1 (1 1 1 1 1) · no longer made — the kit uses 1700 air blue in its place, a blue rather than a lilac

Sizes

Gauge
16 sts × 22 rows = 10 cm (4″) in stocking stitch on 5 mm needles.

Needles
4 mm (US 6) circular needles, 40 and 80 cm, for the rib and the neckband
5 mm (US 8) circular needles, 40 and 80 cm, for the body and the yoke
4 mm and 5 mm double-pointed needles for the sleeves

You will also need
Stitch markers (in the pattern’s list), stitch holders for the underarm stitches, 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 hem is 16 rounds of K1, P1 rib on 4 mm — 6 rounds straw, 4 rounds white, 6 rounds straw — then 6 plain rounds on 5 mm, a 10-round border of yellow and green dots (chart 1), and the body goes on in straw to 35½ (35½, 37, 37, 38, 38) cm. The sleeves start with the same striped rib on 4 mm double-pointed needles, then a round on 5 mm that brings every size to 48 stitches, 5 plain rounds and the border, and are increased at the underarm. Body and sleeves are joined for the round yoke, 204 (230, 252, 272, 294, 316) stitches, and the 49-round yoke chart — a band of green leaves, then the violet and lilac flowers — takes it down to 68 (76, 82, 88, 96, 104) stitches, with decreases in six rounds; the smaller sizes leave out marked rounds. Six short rows raise the back of the neck. The neckband is the hem’s striped rib on 4 mm, folded to the inside and backstitched down, and the underarm stitches are grafted.

Design: Lars Rains — pattern from Ístex 25 years (no. 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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