Lily cardigan
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This cardigan called Lily is designed for women. It is slightly cropped, with buttons. It has subtle textured colourwork at the chest and a beautiful open and mirrored raglan line. The photos show size 40.
This cardigan is top down knitted in one piece. The material is 100% tweedy wool, called Loch Lomond Lace from BC Garn. It is soft, light, warm and sustainable.
Every size has it's own (depth of) textured colourwork so that the cardigan as a whole remains well balanced. Every stranded row is included in a colour chart. The pattern is written in detail. It is written in English and Dutch.
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Difficulty level/techniques used: intermediate. You know how to cast on, to do yarn overs, to knit (colourwork), to purl (colourwork), to use a stitch holder, to bind off, to knit garter stitch and to add buttons.
Yarn used: BC Garn Loch Lomond Lace GOTS, 100% wool. You knit this wool with a double thread.
Gauge: 5 stitches per inch, 20 st per 10 cm horizontal and about 32 rows per 10 cm vertical in one colour, 20 st per 10 horizontal and about 24 st vertical in colourwork.
Needed: Loch Lomond Lace GOTS (see above: yarn used), circular needles size 4 and 6 (3,5 and 4 mm), 5 double pointed needles in size 6 (4 mm). Stitch markers, and buttons.
Yarn used per colour: note that you knit with double thread, so 50 grams = 150 m instead of 300 m.
