Rökkur (Lopi 33) — Shawl-Collar Cardigan Knitting Pattern

Rökkur — twilight. Bergrós Kjartansdóttir’s cardigan from Ístex’s Lopi 33, knitted in Álafosslopi on 7 mm needles: white, patterned all over with zigzags and broken lines in midnight blue, denim heather and grey heather, with a V-neck, a deep ribbed shawl collar and long ribbed cuffs, folded back in the photo. Body and sleeves are knitted in the round, the front is cut open, and it closes with 5 buttons. One colour version, in sizes XS/S, M and L/XL. All four colours are still made.

What you get

• The knitting pattern in English (PDF), emailed right after purchase — nothing is posted
• Sizes XS/S, M and L/XL
• Two charts, printed together on one page, with a colour key
• Yarn and needles are not included. The kit has this pattern and all the yarn: the Rökkur kit

Yarn used in the pattern (not included)

Álafosslopi — 100 g balls · sizes XS/S (M L/XL)
A 0051 white — 7 (7 8)
B 0709 midnight blue — 3 (3 3)
C 0010 denim heather — 2 (2 2)
D 0057 grey heather — 2 (2 2)

Sizes

Gauge
14 sts × 16 rows = 10 cm (4″) in the stranded pattern on 7 mm needles.

Needles
6 mm (US 10) and 7 mm (US 10½) circular needles, 40 and 80 cm — 6 mm for the hem rib, the front bands and the collar, 7 mm for the pattern
6 mm and 7 mm double-pointed needles for the sleeves — 6 mm for the rib cuffs

You will also need
5 buttons (the pattern gives no size), and — though the pattern’s list leaves them out — a sewing machine and thread for the steek, stitch holders and markers, and a tapestry needle.

How it is knitted
The body is cast on in white on the 6 mm circular and knitted in the round in K2, P2 rib for 4 (4, 5) cm, with 2 purl stitches at the centre front for a steek. On 7 mm, two charts are worked in turn all over — chart 1, 6 rounds with a midnight blue zigzag, and chart 2, 12 rounds with bands of midnight blue, denim heather and grey heather — with a purled stitch at each side. The sleeves start with 18 (19, 20) cm of K2, P2 rib in white on 6 mm double-pointed needles and follow the same charts, increased either side of a purled stitch under the arm; they are knitted to about 61 (63, 64) cm, and in the photo the rib is folded back. Body and sleeves are joined for the round yoke, with a V-neck bound off at each side of the steek and four decrease rounds of 24 stitches in the solid white rounds. The steek is machine-sewn and cut. Each front gets a band of K2, P2 rib, picked up from the hem to the centre back of the neck; short rows and increases build it up into half a shawl collar, about 14 cm deep at the back, and the two halves are sewn together at the centre back. The buttons go on the right band and the 5 buttonholes in the left.

Design: Bergrós Kjartansdóttir — pattern from Lopi No. 33 (no. 5), 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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