Icelandic style cardigan with a Bohus-inspired stranded yoke and a nubby brioche body. Color plus texture equals fun!

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Pattern info

Construction: Knitted from the top down in one piece. The stranded and textured yoke is worked flat. Sleeves are separated at the underarms, are worked flat, and seamed. Make the sweater body as long or as short as you like. Buttonband is picked up and knitted.

Finished sweater sizes: 34 (37, 41, 45, 48, 53, 56)“. Shown in size 41 on model (6” of ease), and in size 37 on dress form (1” ease). Recommended ease: 0 to 4”.

Gauge: 23 sts and 24 rows = 4” for stranded yoke using size 7 needles.

Yarn: Any of Sunday Knits 5 ply worsted weight yarns: 8 (9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15) skeins main color plus one 20-gm mini skein in each of 6 contrast colors.
Shown in Brigadoon stone with an assortment of other blends and colors.

Substitute any worsted weight woolen yarn: 1040 (1200, 1350, 1510, 1640, 1900, 2050) yds main color and 26 (28, 30, 33, 36, 39, 42) yds in each of 6 contrast colors.

Techniques used: Reading colorwork charts, stranded knitting combining knit and purl stitches, basic brioche stitches, pick up and knit.

Pattern includes: Colorwork charts, schematic, glossary with links to helpful tutorials.