Vibrant yoke cardigan
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A cropped straight cardigan with a round yoke, and somewhat shorter sleeves, with a zipper. It is knitted top down in one piece and has a fake ‘side seam’.
Every size has its own (depth of) yoke in colourwork, so that the proportions in this cardigan remain well balanced. The photos show size 40.
This pattern ranges from size 36 to size 54.
Every stranded row is included in a colour chart. The pattern is described in detail and covers 20 pages.
(Click more than once on the photos to see them in more detail)
Difficulty level/techniques used: intermediate. You know how to cast on, to knit colourwork, to purl colourwork, to use a stitch holder, to bind off, to knit garter stitch and to sew in a zipper. (If you want to do a steek and just knit in rounds, of course you could do that, too.)
Needed: Bio Shetland GOTS (read further: yarn used), circular needles size 2,5 and 4 (3 and 3,5 mm) with long enough length to block the yoke on it when the yoke is finished, 4 double pointed needles of the same sizes. Stitch markers, and a zipper. Choose a zipper that is divisible and has a length at least about 1 inch/2,5 cm shorter than the cardigan’s length.
Gauge: 5 stitches per inch (roughly 20 per 10 cm). You knit this yarn double.
Yarn used: Bio Shetland GOTS from BC Garn, in shades of blue and green with a little touch of red and coral.
Yarn needed for sizes 36-54:
Nr. 16 Washed Jeans, main colour: 4, 5, 5, 5, 6, 6, 7, 7, 7, 8 skeins (600 yrd – 549 m, 661 yrd – 605 m, 698 yrd – 638 m, 756 yrd – 692 m, 821 yrd – 750 m, 882 yrd – 806 m, 945 yrd – 865 m, 992 yrd – 907, 1038 yrd – 949 m, 1096 yrd – 1002 m).
Nr. 14 Bright blue: 1 skein all sizes (80 yrd – 73 m, 95 yrd – 87 m, 98 yrd – 90 m, 101 yrd – 92 m, 113 yrd – 104 m, 116 yrd – 106 m, 119 yrd – 109 m, 129 yrd – 118 m, 138 yrd – 126 m, 144 yrd – 132 m).
Nr. 11 Spring green: 1 skein all sizes (40 yrd – 36 m, 34 yrd – 31 m, 58 yrd – 53 m, 52 yrd – 48 m, 55 yrd – 50 m, 70 yrd – 64 m, 73 yrd – 67 m, 80 yrd – 73 m, 83 yrd – 76 m, 86 yrd – 78 m).
Nr. 71 Fen: 1 skein all sizes (55 yrd – 50 m, 61 yrd – 56 m, 64 yrd – 59 m, 80 yrd – 73 m, 83 yrd – 76 m, 86 yrd – 78 m, 95 yrd – 87 m, 95 yrd – 87 m, 98 yrd – 90 m).
Nr. 18 Royal blue: 1 skein all sizes (43 yrd – 39 m, 46 yrd – 42 m, 46 yrd – 42 m, 55 yrd – 50 m, 61 yrd – 56 m, 61 yrd – 56 m, 64 yrd – 59 m, 67 yrd – 62 m, 76 yrd – 70 m, 80 yrd – 73 m).
Nr. 58 Petrol: 1 skein all sizes (28 yrd – 25 m, 24 yrd – 22 m, 40 yrd – 36 m, 37 yrd – 34 m, 37 yrd – 34 m, 43 yrd – 39 m, 46 yrd – 42 m, 49 yrd – 45 m, 49 yrd – 45 m, 52 yrd – 48 m).
Nr. 70 Aquamarin: 1 skein all sizes (18 yrd – 17m, 24 yrd – 22 m, 24 yrd – 22 m, 28 yrd – 25 m, 31 yrd – 28 m, 31 yrd – 28 m, 31 yrd – 28 m, 31 yrd – 28 m, 34 yrd – 31 m, 34 yrd – 31 m).
Nr. 13 Turquoise: 1 skein all sizes (31 yrd – 28 m, 34 yrd – 31 m, 34 yrd – 31 m, 40 yrd – 36 m, 43 yrd – 39 m, 43 yrd – 39 m, 49 yrd – 45 m, 52 yrd – 48 m, 55 yrd – 50 m, 58 yrd – 53 m).
Nr. 65 Dunkelrot: 1 skein all sizes (15 yrd – 14 m, 18 yrd – 17 m, 18 yrd, 17 m, 21 yrd – 20 m, 21 yrd – 20 m, 21 yrd – 20 m, 21 yrd – 20 m, 24 yrd – 22 m, 24 yrd – 22 m, 24 yrd – 22 m).
Nr. 64 Blassrot: 1 skein all sizes (15 yrd – 14 m, 18 yrd – 17 m, 18 yrd, 17 m, 18 yrd – 17 m, 21 yrd – 20 m, 21 yrd – 20 m, 21 yrd – 20 m, 21 yrd – 20 m, 21 yrd – 20 m, 24 yrd – 22 m).