Tat — Children’s Marled Plötulopi Sweater Knitting Pattern

Tat is Védís Jónsdóttir’s crew-neck sweater for children from Ístex’s Lopi 26, knitted with two strands of Plötulopi held together all the way: one strand of dark brown and one of sea green make a flecked brown marl for the body, the sleeves and the yoke, and an 11-round zigzag band in dark amber and dark brown crosses each upper sleeve. The yoke is plain marl; the first 2 cm of the hem and cuff rib and the neckband are solid dark brown. One colour version, in sizes 8 to 14 years. The sea green (1422) is no longer made; dark brown (1032) and dark amber (1426) still are.

What you get

• The knitting pattern in English (PDF), emailed right after purchase — nothing is posted
• Sizes 8, 10, 12 and 14 years
• Every yoke decrease round written out for each size
• The sleeve-band chart, with the start and end marked for each size
• Yarn and needles are not included. The kit has this pattern and all the yarn: the Tat kit

Yarn used in the pattern (not included)

Plötulopi — 100 g plates · to fit 8 (10 12 14) years
A 1032 dark brown — 2 (2 3 3)
B 1422 sea green — 2 (2 3 3) · no longer made — the kit uses 0484 forest green, a dark greyish green; it shows only as flecks in the marl
C 1426 dark amber — 1 (1 1 1)

Sizes

Gauge
14 sts × 19 rows = 10 cm (4″) in stocking stitch on 5.5 mm needles, with two strands of Plötulopi knitted together.

Needles
5.5 mm (US 9) circular needles, 40 and 60–80 cm, for the body and the yoke — the pattern prints US 7, but 5.5 mm is US 9
4.5 mm (US 7) circular needle, 60–80 cm, for the body rib
4.5 mm (US 7) and 5.5 mm (US 9) double-pointed needles for the sleeves — and, by our reading, the 4.5 mm ones for the neckband: the pattern just says a 4½ mm needle, and 56 to 62 stitches are too few for the 60–80 cm circular

You will also need
Stitch holders (or scrap yarn) for the underarm stitches, 8 stitch markers plus one for the start of the round, and a tapestry needle for grafting the underarms — the pattern’s list leaves these out.

How it is knitted
Knitted in the round from the bottom up, always with two strands of Plötulopi together. The body is cast on with 112 (120, 128, 136) stitches in two strands of dark brown on 4.5 mm and knitted in K1, P1 rib for 2 cm; the rib then goes on to 5 cm with one strand of dark brown and one of sea green — the marl that runs through the whole sweater — and the body is knitted in stocking stitch on 5.5 mm to 34 (36, 39, 41) cm. The sleeves start with the same rib on double-pointed needles and are increased 6 (6, 7, 7) times; at 29 (31, 34, 37) cm each gets the 11-round zigzag band in dark amber and dark brown, then goes on in the marl. Body and sleeves are joined, and the plain marled yoke is shaped with eight decreases every other round — at the four joins and on each side of a narrow strip along the top of each sleeve. Short rows raise the back of the neck, and the neckband is 3 cm of K1, P1 rib in two strands of dark brown. The underarm stitches are grafted.

Design: Védís Jónsdóttir — pattern from Lopi No. 26 (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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