The Red Lantern Sweater came to my mind when I was craving for a knitwear with wine red and turquoise colour palette.

The Red Lantern Sweater is knitted with Icelandic yarns top down seamlessly, with side splits where the back piece is longer than the front, to add a feminine feature and help identify the front and back side of the sweater, because no short-row tech is applied. The sleeved are shaped by decreasing stitches and long hems, to create an elegant visual.

The pattern is beginner friendly:

• No short-row technique
• Increasing stitches are on the stitch with exact the same colour (you don’t need to switch to a different coloured yarn while making one stitch increase, which sometimes might disturb the tension if you are novice to colour work)
• The longest monochrome float is no more than 6 stitches (so there is no need to “catch the floats” in the wrong side of the colour work)

Size
5 Sizes are offered with the corresponding chest circumference after blocking (soaking in lukewarm water and flat drying):

• XS: 86 cm
• S: 92 cm
• M: 97 cm
• L: 103 cm
• XL: 108 cm

For example, if your chest circumference is 89 cm, then you may knit the size S. The profile knitwear is knitted in size XS.

Yarn

• Léttlopi 1409 Garnet Red: 8 (XS), 9 (S), 10 (M), 11 (L), 12 (XL) balls
• Léttlopi 1404 Glacier Blue: 2 (XS, S), 3 (M, L, XL) balls
• Léttlopi 1419 Barley: 1 (XS), 1-2(S), 2 (M, L, XL) balls

Needles

• 4mm circular needles for the yoke, main body and sleeves
• 3mm circular / double pointed needles for the neck and hems of the body & sleeves

Gauge

• 10×10 cm
• 18 stitches and 24 rows

Hope you enjoy it. Happy knitting!