Sara — Striped Toddler Cardigan Knitting Pattern

Sara is Rebekka Kristjánsdóttir’s round-yoke cardigan for toddlers from Ístex’s Lopi 31, knitted in Léttlopi: narrow stripes of ten colours from the hem to the neck, a flared ribbed welt and cuffs, a deep flared collar and five buttons. The welt, cuffs and collar are hazel heather, a warm brown, and in the photo the front bands are brown too. It is knitted in the round and cut open at the front. One colour version, in sizes 1 to 4 years. Three of the ten colours are no longer made — hazel heather (1401), orange (1410) and sun yellow (1411); the other seven still are.

What you get

• The knitting pattern in English (PDF), emailed right after purchase — nothing is posted
• Sizes 1, 2, 3 and 4 years
• The 28-round stripe chart and the yoke chart, with the colour key
• Yarn and needles are not included. The kit has this pattern and all the yarn: the kit

Yarn used in the pattern (not included)

Léttlopi — 50 g balls · to fit 1 (2 3 4) years
A 1401 hazel heather — 2 (2 2 3) · no longer made — the kit uses 0867 chocolate heather, a darker brown than the warm mid-brown hazel in the photo
B 1410 orange — 1 (1 1 1) · no longer made — the kit uses 1704 apricot, deeper and browner than the bright orange stripes
C 1420 murky — 1 (1 1 1)
D 1406 spring green — 1 (1 1 1)
E 1411 sun yellow — 1 (1 1 1) · no longer made — the kit uses 1703 mimosa, a warm golden yellow, a little deeper and more golden than the yellow stripes in the photo
F 1417 frostbite — 1 (1 1 1)
G 9431 brick heather — 1 (1 1 1)
H 1419 barley — 1 (1 1 1)
I 1416 moor — 1 (1 1 1)
J 1418 straw — 1 (1 1 1)

Sizes

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

Needles
4.5 mm (US 7) circular needles, 40 and 60 cm, for the welt, the body, the yoke and the collar
3.5 mm (US 4) circular needles, 40 and 60 cm, for the welt rib, the start of the collar and the front bands — the pattern prints US 3, but 3.5 mm is US 4. All of these are knitted back and forth, so by our reading one length is enough
3.5 mm (US 4) and 4.5 mm (US 7) double-pointed needles for the cuffs and the sleeves

You will also need
5 buttons (in the pattern’s list, with no size given), plus stitch holders (or scrap yarn) for the underarm stitches, a sewing machine and thread for the steek, and a tapestry needle for grafting the underarms — which the list leaves out.

How it is knitted
Body and sleeves are knitted in the round from the bottom up. The body starts with a flared welt in hazel heather (A): 216 (240, 252, 264) stitches of K2, P2 rib knitted back and forth on 4.5 mm for 3 cm, then halved on 3.5 mm — knit 2 together, purl 2 together — and finished with 1.5 cm of K1, P1. Two purl stitches are cast on at the front for the steek and the work is joined. The body is knitted in narrow stripes from a 28-round colour chart, with two decrease rounds of 6 stitches on the way up. The sleeves start with the same flared cuff on double-pointed needles and follow the same stripes, increasing at the underarm, and end at the same point in the stripes as the body. Body and sleeves are joined for the round yoke: the stripes carry on, and four decrease rounds from chart 2 bring it down to 57 (61, 63, 65) stitches. The collar is knitted back and forth in hazel heather: 2 cm of K1, P1 on 3.5 mm, then every stitch is doubled and it goes on in K2, P2 on 4.5 mm to 7 (8, 8, 8) cm, so it flares. The front is machine-sewn and cut open, the underarms are grafted, and K1, P1 bands are picked up along both fronts and the collar edges on 3.5 mm, with 5 buttonholes on the right.

Design: Rebekka Kristjánsdóttir — pattern from Lopi No. 31 (no. 11), 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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