This useful little cardi is a graceful take on the gansey tradition, featuring the Arbroath marriage lines stitch pattern. The construction is a blend of traditional and not-so-traditional methods. The body is knitted from the bottom up, and I chose to steek the front and armhole openings in order to allow the knitting to proceed with the right side always facing—so much simpler to keep track of the patterns. Once the steeks were cut, I used a perpendicular shoulder join to continue the stitch patterns on the saddle shoulder. The sleeves were then worked down from the shoulders, maintaining a 3-stitch underarm “seam” down to the cuffs.
Takes 8 (9, 10, 11, 12, 13) skeins of Lark, or 5 (6, 6, 7, 7, 8) of Galway.
Please note that a correction has been made on Feb 16, 2020 to Rnd 1 under “Join Fronts and Back”.