My new design is the classic cardigan I want to bring along wherever I go; starting from my humble housing heading towards one of the fascinating and beautiful castles of southern Sweden…
With its classic shape and great fit this cardigan will make me feel well dressed for any surrounding:)

Construction
I worked out this pattern to suit most knitters, from adventurous beginners to skilled knitters.
The cardigan is completely seamless.
The lower body is worked back-and-forth to underarms where work is divided for upper back and fronts to be continued in separate pieces. The sleeves are worked top-down starting from picked-up sts around the armhole openings. The sleeve-cap is shaped by working short-rows back-and-forth, thereafter the sleeve is worked top-down and in-the-round to bind-off.
The neck/button-band is worked in one piece from picked-up sts along the fronts/spared sts of the back neck.

Sizes
There are 14 sizes to choose from.
Finished chest-measurements, when buttoned are:
84/89/94/99/104/109/114/119/124/128/133/139/144/149 cm = 33/35/37/39/41/43/45/47/49/50.5/52.5/54.75/56.75/59”. Sample is worked in size 1, with approximately 2.5 cm/1” ease. I recommend 0 - 5 cm/0-2” ease.

Materials
Yarn: I recommend that you use a DK weight yarn of nice quality and with great stitch-definition. I used Martins Lab’s “Tibetan DK”, in the colour-way “Seashell”, to work my cardigan.
This yarn comes in skeins of 100 gr/3.53 oz and 212 m/232 yards.
Of this specific yarn you will need 860/920/980/1040/1100/1160/1240/1300/1370/1440/1510/1580/1650/1720 m = 940/1005/1070/1135/1200/1265/1350/1420/1495/1570/1645/1725/1800/1875 yards. Needles: to get gauge I worked using needles 3.5 mm/US4. Please check your gauge before getting started!
Notions
2 removable stitch-markers, tapestry needle, blocking tools, buttons (12 – 13 mm/0.5” across for a 2-st buttonhole, 16 – 19 mm/0.6” – 0.75” across for a 3-st buttonhole).

Gauge
24 sts and 28 - 30 rows in stockinette sts/stitch-patterns
= 10 x 10 cm/4 x 4”.

The pattern
The lace-pattern of the lower body (fronts and hem) is charted as well as written out.
The cuff-pattern (same as for the body) is charted.
There is a schematic/measurements.
All neccesary stitch-counts are given.
All measurements are given in cm’s as well as in inches.

Skill level: adventurous beginner.

Techniques involved: cast on, working simple lace (only 3 basic abbreviations included in the lace-work), simple short-rows.
3-needle bind-off for the shoulders.
Picking up sts.