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Designed for using up yarn odds and ends, Scrapdigan offers so many options for customisation! Stay in one color story or go wild with color combinations, use textured and handspun yarns or add sequins, put mini skeins to work or hold multiple different yarns together - the possibilities are endless. If there’s enough for one stripe, there’s enough!

The cardigan is knit seamless from the top down with round yoke shaping. The abundance of texture is balanced with the comfortable straight lines of the body and sleeves. The hem and sleeve cuffs are completed in folded stockinette, which pairs nicely with the double knit buttonband. Choose between three lengths provided - cropped, full, long - or keep knitting until it fits just right. Want to add buttons? The pattern has a detailed guide for them, too.

The textures of the sweater include some favorites like seed, moss, and garter stitch, and also explore welts, Estonian and Latvian braids, miniature built-in nupps, and slipped stitches. Video tutorials for the trickier techniques are provided, as well as the coloring sheet for planning your project, which can be downloaded for free here.

Dive into your stash and create your very own unique masterpiece!

Sizes A (B, C, D, E, F) (G, H, I, J, K)

• Finished chest 33.1 (36.2, 39.4, 42.5, 45.7, 48.8) (52, 55.1, 58.3, 61.4, 64.6)“ / 84 (92, 100, 108, 116, 124) (132, 140, 148, 156, 164)cm
• Length from underarm to hem, adjustable: Cropped 9” / 23cm, lands approximately at waistline; Full 13” / 33cm, lands approximately at tailbone; Long 18” / 46cm, lands approximately at mid-thigh
• Sizes listed are actual finished sweater measurements. Choose the size that is approximately 4” / 10cm larger than your chest circumference.
• Model has 36” / 91cm chest and is wearing size C, long

Yarn

• Worsted / Aran / Medium weight or any yarn that can be worked at the specified gauge (including held double, triple, etc).
• Sample cardigan used more than 20 different yarns from lace to chunky. Ideas: DK weight yarn can be worked slightly looser than usual or held together with a strand of lace weight; Sport weight yarn can be held double; Fingering yarn can be held double or triple; Fluffy lace weight yarns like Suri and mohair can be held in several strands or along with another yarn to thicken it up; Chunky weight can be worked at a tighter than usual gauge (recommended to use only in stockinette stripes).
• Approximate yardage for worsted weight yarn, total:
• Cropped 1260 (1375, 1470, 1585, 1700, 1805) (1925, 2030, 2155, 2280, 2390)yds
• Full 1390 (1515, 1620, 1750, 1880, 1995) (2125, 2245, 2380, 2520, 2645)yds
• Long 1645 (1795, 1925, 2080, 2235, 2370) (2530, 2670, 2835, 2995, 3145)yds

Needles and Gauge

• Swatch to determine needle size that helps to fit the gauge of 18 sts and 26 rows in 4” / 10cm in Stockinette Stitch, blocked; needle size below is a suggestion
• US 8 / 5mm or size needed to get the gauge
• Body: circular needles on 32” / 80cm cable or long single pointed needles
• Sleeves: circular needles for the magic loop method, a set of dpns, or other needles suitable for working small circles in the round

Construction

• The cardigan is knit from the top down seamlessly with the yoke-like shaping. The top section is worked in one piece until the separation of the sleeves. Increases along the edges shape the V-neck opening.

• Once the sleeves are separated, the body is worked from the top down in one piece till the desired length. The folded hem is completed in stockinette and its open stitches are secured to the wrong side of the sweater.

• The sleeves are knit from the top down in the round and finished with the matching folded cuffs.

• Stitches for the buttonband are picked up around the sides and the neck. The buttonband is then worked using double knitting. Buttonholes can be added if desired using instructions provided.