Lakehouse by Laura Aylor

Lakehouse

Knitting
May 2015
Sport (12 wpi) ?
26 stitches and 32 rows = 4 inches
in crossed stockinette
US 4 - 3.5 mm
1565 - 2230 yards (1431 - 2039 m)
33.2, (36.3, 39.4, 42.5), {45.5, 48, 51.1} inches at bust (actual garment measurement)
English
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This lightweight cardigan features crossed stockinette, two bold cables, and a cozy shawl collar. It is knit seamlessly using a construction method adapted from Barbara Walker’s top-down simultaneous set-in sleeves in Knitting from the Top.

Skills required:
• Long-tail cast-on
• Short rows
• Cables
• Picking up stitches
• Increasing
• Decreasing
• Backwards-loop cast-on
• Crossed stockinette (worked flat: knit through the back loops, purl as usual; worked in the round: alternate knitting through the back loops one round and knitting as usual one round)

Yardage details:
• 33.2” - 1565
• 36.3” - 1680
• 39.4” - 1795
• 42.5” - 1900
• 45.5” - 2010
• 48” - 2115
• 51.1” - 2230

Pattern discussion thread is here.

Brown sample knit in the Plucky Knitter Traveler Sport in Rapunzel. Blue sample knit in madelinetosh Pashmina in Mica.