Rósn — Cabled Yoke Cape Knitting Pattern

Védís Jónsdóttir’s Rósn from Ístex’s Lopi 28 is a women’s cape in Álafosslopi: five cables run up the cape between moss-stitch edges, two slits let the arms through, and a round yoke in stranded colourwork rises to a folded ribbed collar. It closes with a two-way zip from hem to collar — the yoke is knitted in the round and cut open at the front for it. The pattern has two colour versions, in sizes S, M and L: blue, sapphire blue with a yoke in midnight blue, fuchsia, golden, amber and chartreuse, and white, with a yoke in white and grey. Sapphire blue (9968), the blue version’s main colour, is no longer made; every other colour in the pattern still is.

What you get

• The knitting pattern in English (PDF), emailed right after purchase — nothing is posted
• Two colour versions — blue and white
• Sizes S, M and L
• The yoke chart, with a key for both versions, and the two cable charts
• Yarn and needles are not included. The kits have this pattern and all the yarn: the blue kit or the white kit

Yarn used in the pattern (not included)

Blue version: Álafosslopi — 100 g balls · sizes S (M L)
A 9968 sapphire blue — 5 (5 6) · no longer made — the blue kit uses 1233 space blue, brighter and more vivid than the deep, shaded blue in the photo
B 0709 midnight blue — 1 (1 1)
C 9969 fuchsia — 1 (1 1)
D 9964 golden — 1 (1 1)
E 9971 amber — 1 (1 1)
F 9965 chartreuse — 1 (1 1)

White version: Álafosslopi — 100 g balls · sizes S (M L) — white knits the chart’s colours A and B, grey knits C to F
A-B 0051 white — 5 (5 6)
C-F 0057 grey — 1 (2 2)

Sizes — the pattern gives only these two measurements; there is no chest size, as the cape hangs loose from the yoke

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

Needles
6 mm (US 10) circular needles, 40 and 60–80 cm — the cape is knitted back and forth on the long one, and the yoke moves to the 40 cm as it narrows
5 mm (US 8) circular needle, 80 cm, for the cast-on and the moss-stitch border
4.5 mm (US 7) circular needle, 40 cm, for the neckband

You will also need
A two-way separating zip — the pattern’s list says “zipper with 2 slides” and gives no length; and a cable needle, a sewing machine and matching thread for the cut front and the zip, and a tapestry needle, which the list leaves out.

How it is knitted
The cape is knitted back and forth from the hem on a long circular needle: 5 rows of moss stitch on 5 mm, then stocking stitch on 6 mm with 3 moss stitches at each front edge and five cables — one near each front edge, one at each side and one at the centre back — each a 4-stitch cross between purl stitches. Decreases at the sides, on both sides of the two side cables (our reading), 12 times in all, narrow the cape from 216 (228, 240) to 168 (180, 192) stitches, and at 8 (9, 9) cm two arm slits are set on the fronts, edged in moss stitch and 15 cm long. At 35 (37, 39) cm, 2 stitches are cast on at the front and the yoke is knitted in the round from a 35-round chart with four decrease rounds, down to 59 (63, 67) stitches — in the blue version, bands of zigzags and small motifs in midnight blue, fuchsia, golden, amber and chartreuse, with three rounds of sapphire blue; in the white version, white and grey. The neckband is K1, P1 rib on 4.5 mm, knitted back and forth and folded in half to the inside — amber inside in the blue version, white inside and out in the white. Finally the 2 front stitches are machine-sewn and cut open, and a two-way zip is sewn in with matching thread from the hem to the collar.

Design: Védís Jónsdóttir — pattern from Lopi No. 28 (no. 7), 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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