Ylja & Hödd — Long Coat and Beret Knitting Pattern

Védís Jónsdóttir’s Ylja & Hödd from Ístex’s Lopi 24 is two patterns in one leaflet: Ylja (no. 1), a long coat, and Hödd (no. 2), a matching beret. The coat is knitted with two strands of Álafosslopi held together — raspberry heather and ruby red heather — on 12 mm needles, with moss-stitch front borders, deep moss-stitch cuffs, a 22 cm moss-stitch collar and two pockets with knitted linings; it closes with three buttons and crochet-chain loops. The body and yoke are knitted back and forth, the sleeves in the round. Coat sizes 36 to 42; the beret is one size. Raspberry heather (9970) is no longer made; ruby red heather (9962) still is.

What you get

• The knitting pattern in English (PDF), emailed right after purchase — nothing is posted
• A coat (no. 1) and a beret (no. 2), each with its own materials list
• Coat sizes 36, 38, 40 and 42; the beret one size, ladies’ 36–42
• Yarn, needles and the coat’s buttons are not included. The kit has this pattern and the yarn for the coat (not for the beret): the coat kit

Yarn used in the pattern (not included)

Ylja, the coat — two strands held together: Álafosslopi — 100 g balls · sizes 36 (38 40 42)
9970 raspberry heather — 7 (8 8 9) · no longer made by Ístex — the coat kit uses 1242 in its place (our shop’s name: oxblood red)
9962 ruby red heather — 7 (8 8 9)

Hödd, the beret: Álafosslopi — 100 g balls · one size
A 9962 ruby red heather — 1
B 9970 raspberry heather — 1 · no longer made by Ístex — we have no kit for the beret

Sizes

Gauge
8 sts × 11½ rows = 10 cm (4″) in stocking stitch with two strands of Álafosslopi on 12 mm needles. The pattern gives no gauge for the beret.

Needles
12 mm (US 17) circular needle, 80 cm, for the coat’s body, yoke and collar
12 mm (US 17) double-pointed needles, a set of five, for the coat’s sleeves and the beret

You will also need
Three buttons and a crochet hook for the button loops — the finishing uses them, but the pattern’s lists leave them out and give no sizes. Waste yarn in another colour for the pocket openings, markers, stitch holders and a tapestry needle — also used in the instructions, not listed.

How it is knitted
Ylja, the coat: knitted with two strands held together on 12 mm needles. The body is cast on with 89 (93, 97, 101) stitches on the circular needle and knitted back and forth in one piece: 6 cm of moss stitch, then stocking stitch with the first and last 5 stitches in moss stitch for the front borders. It is decreased by 2 stitches at each side at 30 (32, 34, 36) cm and again at 50 (52, 54, 56) cm, to 81 (85, 89, 93), and knitted to 66 (67, 68, 69) cm “or desired lenght”, as printed; at 36 (37, 38, 39) cm the two pocket openings are marked by knitting 12 stitches with waste yarn and knitting them again with the coat yarn. The sleeves are cast on with 24 (24, 26, 26) stitches on double-pointed needles and knitted in the round: 10 cm of moss stitch and 5 cm of stocking stitch, then decreased by 2 stitches once and increased by 2 stitches after every 9 (7, 6, 6) cm, to 28 (30, 34, 34), and knitted to 48 (49, 50, 50) cm. Body and sleeves are joined for the yoke, 113 (121, 129, 133) stitches, with 6 (6, 8, 8) stitches at each underarm left on holders, and the yoke is knitted back and forth with three kinds of decrease rows — 4 stitches on the body only, 8 on the body and sleeves, or 12 with the middle of each sleeve as well — to 41 stitches. The collar is 22 cm of moss stitch on those 41 stitches, bound off loosely. For each pocket the waste yarn is picked out: the lower stitches get 5 cm of moss stitch for the pocket edge, the upper stitches 18 cm of stocking stitch for the lining, which is sewn to the inside. Three crochet chains of two strands, about 5 cm long, are folded into loops on the left front edge — the lowest level with the pocket lining, the top one where the collar begins and the third between them — with buttons on the right front to match, and the underarms are joined. Hödd, the beret: 40 stitches are cast on with both colours held together on the double-pointed needles and knitted in knit 1, purl 1 rib in the round for 10 cm; then with one strand of B only, two stitches are knitted into each knit stitch and one into each purl stitch, to 60 stitches, and 10 cm of stocking stitch follows; five decrease rounds take it to 10 stitches, which are drawn together.

Design: Védís Jónsdóttir — pattern from Lopi No. 24 (nos. 1 and 2), 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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