Keel

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Keel

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Loft 2-ply Woolen-Spun Fingering Weight

Select a color Homemade Jam Camper Long Johns Wool Socks Embers Bale Hayloft Yellowstone Sap Foothills Artifact Birdbook Button Jar Iceberg Tartan Faded Quilt Flannel Almanac Old World Postcard Blanket Fort Plume Fossil Woodsmoke Nest Stormcloud Meteorite Truffle Hunt Snowbound Pumice Sweatshirt Soot Cast Iron

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• Product description

  Knit a floaty open-front cardigan to layer over dressy or casual outfits as you enjoy the last of the soft weather. This study in the intersection of curved and angular lines uses innovative seamless construction to form a strikingly graceful back. The graphic garter rib elements shift and slope with precisely placed decreases, and an unusual bottom-up construction brings the fronts up and over the shoulder to create a strong central spine of joinery bind-off, like the wales of a boat meeting at the keel. The weightless fabric of Loft and the gentle A-line shape allow the cardigan to swing and drape beautifully as you move. Choose your favorite warm neutral to pair with everything in your closet or go bold with a bright, saturated hue.

  Designer: Bristol Ivy

  Collection: Wool People, Volume 8

   

• Pattern materials

  YARDAGE

  • 1375 (1515, 1650, 1855, 2025, 2170, 2440) yards of fingering weight wool yarn

  
  

  YARN

  • 5 (6, 6, 7, 7, 8, 9) skeins of Brooklyn Tweed Loft (100% American Targhee-Columbia wool; 275 yards/50g)
  • Photographed in color Almanac

  
  

• Pattern specs

  CONSTRUCTION

  • The body is worked flat as a single piece from hem to underarm; after the underarm stitches are placed on hold, the sleeves are worked circularly to the underarm. The right front and right sleeve form the right yoke; the right yoke is shaped at the front raglan and back of sleeve while the yoke is joined to the back. When half of the back stitches remain, the right yoke and half of the back stitches are placed on hold and the left yoke is worked. The remaining stitches for each yoke are then joined at the center back with Joinery Bind Off.

  
  

  FINISHED DIMENSIONS

  • 33½ (37½, 41¼, 45, 49, 53½, 57)” circumference at chest, with fronts open
  • Sample shown is size 37½” with 4½” of ease on model

  Need help picking a size? See our resource page on Selecting a Sweater Size 101.

  
  

  GAUGE

  • 25 stitches & 33 rows/rounds = 4″ in stockinette stitch, after blocking

  
  

  NEEDLES

  • One 32″ circular needle and one set of double-pointed needles (DPNs)* in size needed to obtain gauge listed
  • Suggested Size: 3¾ mm (US 5)

  
  

  *32″ circular needle can be used instead of DPNs if using the Magic Loop method for working small circumferences in the round (i.e., Sleeves)

  
  

• Techniques

  Tutorials for all special techniques listed below are included in the pattern

  • Long Tail Cast On
  • Joinery Bind Off (3-Needle Bind Off)
  • Wet-Blocking

  
  

• Pattern Updates

  14 June 2016: Version 2.0 

  The order of construction of the Left Yoke has been changed so that the “Shape Back Sleeve” section precedes the “Shape Front Raglan” section.

  
  

  1 October 2018: Version 2.1  

  Page 6, Left Sleeve, upon completion of the Sleeve Increase Rounds, “Work even until piece measures 20 (20, 20¼, 20¼, 20½, 20½, 20½, 20¾)” from cast-on edge, ending with Round 1 of Circular Garter Rib.”

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