I love a classy, classic cardigan with a touch of vintage-feel.
And my favourite shaping of the upper body is the raglan.
We “inherited” the raglan-shaping from Lord Raglan, who was injured and lost his arm in the Battle of Waterloo.
I would love to think that his Lady was inspired by the Lords tailors invention of the raglan-shaping for her wardrobe, but I am not so sure about that. Anyway, it has inspired generations later on and it never really seems to go out of fashion.

This pattern is a tested pattern.
My testers worked wonderful garments and I am so happy about the results! I was also so pleased about their feed-back on the lace and the pattern.
A huge thank you for sharing your talent and time with me to: ewfeller / fuzzywuzzypanda / Kiwilinguist / ecoknitmama / ejmsasha /pistill / 100creations / Bredil / SKYSNOTHELIMIT / Carmen73

Design and construction
This classic, classy cardigan features lace-panels on fronts, back and sleeves. The construction is completely seamless.
The lower body and sleeves are worked bottom-up to the underarms. The upper body is shaped by raglan-decreases and is worked in one piece over body and sleeves.
A special note on the collar: a couple of my testers chose to work a classic neck-line instead of the collar. This also turned out beautifully. The pattern gives instructions for both the collar and a traditional neck-band.

Sizes
Chest circumference, when buttoned:
Size 1: 80 cm/31.5”
Size 2: 86.5 cm/34”
Size 3: 93 cm/36.5”
Size 4: 99 cm/39”
Size 5: 105 cm/41.5”
Size 6: 111 cm/44”
Size 7: 117 cm/46”
Size 8: 123 cm/48.5”
Size 9: 130 cm/51”
Size 10: 135 cm/53.5”
Size 11: 142 cm/56”
Size 12: 148 cm/58.5” Choose a size close to your own chest measurement.

Materials
Yarn: I recommend that you use a fingering weight yarn with great stitch-definition. I used the fingering weight yarn,”Silky yak” from Fru Valborg, to work the cardigan. This yarn comes in skeins of 480 m/525 yards and 120 g/4.23 oz. You will need approximately 1100/1175/1250/1325/1400/1475/1550/1625/1700/1775/1850/
1950 m of this specific yarn to work the cardigan.
Needles: Choose needle size to obtain gauge. I used needle size 3 mm/US2.5; this is a suggestion only.
Notions: 4 removable stitch-markers, separate holders,
buttons 12.5 mm/0.5” across.

Gauge
26 sts and 34 - 36 rows/rounds in stockinette (and in the lace-pattern) = 10x10cm/4x4”.

The pattern
The pattern is tested.
The lace-pattern is charted, as well as written out.
There is a schematic.
All measurements are given in cm’s as well as in inches.
All necessary stitch-counts are given.

Knitting skills
Intermediate.

Techniques involved
Cast-on, bind off, decreases / increases, working lace following a chart and/or written instructions, picking up sts, grafting of the underarm-sts (or seaming, if you prefer).