Nost — Eight-Petal Rose Raglan Sweater Knitting Pattern

Nost is a raglan sweater in two colours of Léttlopi, from Ístex’s Lopi 27, designed by Védís Jónsdóttir. It is patterned all over with eight-petal roses — bands of black heather roses on ash alternate with ash roses on black heather, divided by checked rounds — and the pattern carries on up the raglan yoke. Body and sleeves are knitted in the round from K2, P2 ribs, joined, and decreased along four raglan lines, with short rows at the back and a ribbed neckband in ash. One colourway in sizes S to XL. Both colours are still made.

What you get

• The knitting pattern in English (PDF), emailed right after purchase — nothing is posted
• One colourway — ash and black heather
• Sizes S, M, L and XL
• The eight-petal rose chart for body and sleeves, with a key
• Yarn and needles are not included. The kit has this pattern and all the yarn: the Nost kit

Yarn used in the pattern (not included)

Léttlopi — 50 g balls · sizes S (M L XL)
A 0054 ash — 6 (6 7 8)
B 0005 black heather — 5 (5 6 7)

Sizes

Gauge
18 stitches and 24 rows = 10 cm (4″) in stocking stitch on 4.5 mm needles.

Needles
3.5 mm (US 4) circular needle, 80 cm — for the hem rib
4.5 mm (US 7) circular needles, 40 and 80 cm — for the body and the yoke
3.5 mm and 4.5 mm double-pointed needles for the sleeves — 3.5 mm for the cuffs; the neckband is knitted on 3.5 mm too

You will also need
Markers — in the pattern’s list — and, though the list leaves them out, stitch holders for the underarm stitches and a tapestry needle.

How it is knitted
Body and sleeves are knitted in the round from the bottom up, starting with 7 (8, 7, 8) cm of K2, P2 rib in ash on 3.5 mm. Then the eight-petal rose chart is knitted in stocking stitch on 4.5 mm and repeated — 75 (75, 83, 83) rounds on the body and 94 (94, 104, 104) on the sleeves, ending with 2 (2, 3, 3) rounds of plain colour after the last round of roses; sizes S and M leave out marked rounds. The body has no increases after the rib. On the sleeves 4 (6, 4, 6) stitches are increased evenly after the rib, then 1 stitch after the first and 1 before the last stitch of the round on every 8th (7th, 8th, 7th) round, 10 (11, 12, 13) times. Body and sleeves are joined at 252 (264, 284, 296) stitches with a marker at each join, and the pattern carries on up the raglan yoke: 8 stitches are decreased every other round, 21 (22, 23, 24) times, keeping 2 stitches each side of every marker in the background colour of the band. Short rows are then knitted at the back in black heather, with the raglan decreases worked twice more, to 68 (72, 84, 88) stitches. For the neckband you change to ash and 3.5 mm and knit one round — decreasing 8 stitches in sizes L and XL, to 76 and 80 — then 3 cm of K2, P2 rib, bound off in rib. The underarms are grafted.

Design: Védís Jónsdóttir — pattern from Lopi No. 27 (no. 18), 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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