Plain Yoke Blouse is a very simple blouse in stockinette stitch. The folded edge on the body adds a neat finish and a beautiful drape. The edges on the sleeves and the neckline both have a roll-over edge worked in stockinette stitch. The pattern includes a Detail Edition and an even simpler Novice Edition without short rows.

Measurements
Circumference:
(86) 94 (100) 109 (118) 123 (131) 142 (148) 156 cm.
(33.75) 37 (39.25) 43 (46.5) 48.5 (51.5) 56 (58.25) 61.5”
Length:
(48) 49 (50) 51 (52) 53 (54) 55 (56) 57 cm
(19) 19.25 (19.5) 20 (20.5) 20.75 (21.25) 21.75 (22) 22.5”

Yarn and yarn quantity, brown
Permin Leonora (50% silk, 40% wool, 10% mohair, 25 g = 180 m) held together with
Filcolana Tilia (70% mohair, 30% silk, 25 g = 210 m).
Leonora, color 29: (100) 125 (125) 150 (150) 150 (150) 175 (175) 200 g
Tilia, color 325: (100) 100 (100) 125 (125) 125 (125) 150 (150) 175 g

Yarn and yarn quantity, blue
Permin Leonora (50% silk, 40% wool, 10% mohair, 25 g = 180 m) held together with
Isager Silk Mohair (75% mohair, 25% silk, 25 g = 212 m)
Leonora, color 06: (100) 125 (125) 150 (150) 150 (150) 175 (175) 200 g
Silk Mohair, color 41: (100) 100 (100) 125 (125) 125 (125) 150 (150) 175 g

Yarn and yarn quantity, olive green and grey tweed
Sandnes Garn Tynn Silk Mohair (57% mohair, 15% wool, 28% silk, 25 g = 212 m) held together with
Sandnes Garn Alpakka Følgetråd (100% alpaca, 50 g = 400 m).
Tynn Silk Mohair, color 9873 or 1199: (100) 100 (100) 125 (125) 125 (125) 150 (150) 175 g
Alpakka Følgetråd, color 9873 or 1015: (100) 100 (150) 150 (150) 150 (150) 200 (200) 200 g

Yarn and yarn quantity, red
Filcolana Tilia (70% kid mohair, 30% silk, 25 g = 210 m).
Knitted with 2 strands.
Tilia, color 218: (175) 200 (200) 225 (250) 250 (275) 300 (325) 350 g

Suggested needles
Circular needles 4 mm US6g 80 cm) 16 and 32“.
Circular needles 3,5 mm US4m) 32“.
Circular needles 3 mm US2m) 16“.
Double pointed needles 3,5 mm US4. If you use the magic loop method, you do not need double-pointed needles.

Gauge
21 sts x approx. 31 rows = 10 x 10 cm 4x4” in stockinette stitch on 4 mm US6 needle.

Size guide
Plain Yoke Blouse is intended to have a positive ease of approx. 8-16 cm 3-6”, depending on how loosely fitting you want it to be. The brown, olive green and blue blouse is shown with a positive ease of 13 cm 5.25“. The red and the grey tweed blouse is shown with a positive ease of 8 cm 3.25”.
Find your personal bust circumference by measuring around your chest (or the widest part of your upper body). Then look at the measurements given at the beginning of the pattern (these are the finished measurements of the blouse). Positive ease is the difference between your personal measurement and the blouse measurement. For example, if your bust circumference is 94 cm 37”, a size M would provide you with a positive ease of 15 cm 6”
(109 cm – 94 cm = 15 cm). 43” - 37” = 6”.

Construction note, detailed edition (in the picture)
Plain Yoke Blouse is knitted top-down with a raised back neck, created using German short rows (GSR). This means that when working the short rows, you work back and forth in stockinette stitch (knit on the right side, purl on the wrong side). Apart from the short rows, the blouse is worked in knit stitches only. The yoke is shaped with increases.

Construction note, novice edition
Plain Yoke Blouse is knitted top-down. Everything is worked in stockinette stitch, meaning the blouse is worked in knit stitches only. The round yoke is shaped with increases. The only difference compared to the “detailed edition” is that ”novice edition” is worked the same way both in the front and back in the neck section.