Danshui - It’s a town in northern Taiwan. It literally means freshwater.

This is a seamless cardigan worked from top down with raglan style sleeves.

Sizes:

• 9 sizes available, 31 (33, 35, 38, 41, 43, 45, 48, 51), sizes are based on finished chest measurements in inches.
• 0 to 2” / 1 to 5 cm positive ease is recommended.
• Sweater modeled in size 38 with 2” / 5 cm of positive ease.

Yarn:

• Sport Weight yarn, sample knitted in Quince and Co, Chickadee, 100% wool.
• 1210 (1300, 1400, 1520, 1670, 1770, 1900, 1960, 2170) yards.
• 1105 (1190, 1280, 1390, 1525, 1620, 1735, 1790, 1985) meters.

Design

• Seamless raglan style cardigan knitted top down in one piece.
• Front total is 1 ½ to 3 inches / 4 to 7.5 cm wider than back.
• Soft gathering pleats on the lower back.
• Neck band continues into front band and is about 2 ½” / 16 cm wide after blocking.

Construction:

• Use provisional cast on, work neck band first.
• Pick up and knit stitches along the selvedge of neckband to join the live stitches of neck band.
• Work to underarm flat in one piece.
• Put sleeve sts on waste yarn.
• Continue to work flat in one piece to hem.
• Work sleeves in round to cuff.

Required Skill:

• make increases, m1R, m1L, k-fbf.
• make decreases, k2tog, k3tog, ssk.

Pattern includes:

• schematics
• 1 chart
• written instruction for the chart

Pattern tech edited by Ashley Knowlton