Sneið — Round Seat Cushion Knitting Pattern

Védís Jónsdóttir’s round seat cushion from Ístex’s Lopi 29 is knitted in Álafosslopi from two circles, each started in the middle with a crochet hook and knitted outwards in the round. Increases on both sides of the eight centre stitches make an octagon with eight lines running out to the edge, and those lines are sewn over with backstitch afterwards. As printed, one side is grey — a black heather centre, then grey and ash — and the other green, with teal and chartreuse; both end in a small black heather sawtooth edge. The circles are grafted together round a cushion pad, 40 cm across. All five colours are still made.

What you get

• The knitting pattern in English (PDF), emailed right after purchase — nothing is posted
• One cushion, 40 cm across — a grey side and a green side, as printed
• One small chart for the edge, with a key
• Yarn, needles and the cushion pad are not included. Our two kits each pack the colours of one side as printed — three of the five colours, one ball of each: the grey kit (black heather, grey, ash) or the teal and chartreuse kit (black heather, teal, chartreuse)

Yarn used in the pattern (not included)

Álafosslopi — 100 g balls · one cushion · A for both sides, B and C for the grey side, D and E for the green side
A 0005 black heather — 1
B 0057 grey — 1
C 0054 ash — 1
D 9967 teal — 1
E 9965 chartreuse — 1

Size
One size: 40 cm (15¾″) across. The pattern gives no gauge; each circle ends with 152 stitches round the edge.

Gauge
The pattern gives no gauge — only the finished size, 40 cm across, knitted on 6 mm needles.

Needles
6 mm (US 10) double-pointed needles to start each circle
6 mm (US 10) circular needles, 40 and 60 cm, as the circle grows
6 mm (US J/10) crochet hook — for the cast-on at the centre and the chain cords

You will also need
A seat cushion pad or filling (in the pattern’s list). A stitch holder and a tapestry needle for the backstitch and the grafting — the pattern’s list leaves these out.

How it is knitted
Two circles, each knitted in the round from the centre out on 6 mm needles. With A and the crochet hook you make 8 stitches in a ring (a circle cast-on), move them to double-pointed needles, close the ring and knit one round. Then, on every 4th round, nine times, each of the 8 centre stitches gets a “double lifted increase” on both sides — 16 more stitches each time — until there are 152; you change to the circular needles as the circle grows. The first circle changes from A to B after the 4th increase and to C after the 7th, then works the 4-round edge chart in C and A; the second circle does the same with D and E. With A you sew backstitch along the eight increase lines from the centre out, graft the two circles together leaving an opening, rinse the cover by hand and dry it flat, put the cushion inside and graft the opening closed. Crocheted chain cords tie it to a chair, or it can be used as a pillow.

Design: Védís Jónsdóttir — pattern from Lopi No. 29 (no. 22), 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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