JUMPER – SHORT OVERVIEW OF THE PIECE
The neck and yoke are worked in the round with circular needle, top down. The yoke is divided for body and sleeves and the body is continued in the round with circular needle. The sleeves are worked in the round with short circular needle/double pointed needles.
DOUBLE NECK
Cast on 80-80-88-88-88-88 stitches with colour denim blue DROPS Karisma, using short circular needles size 3.5 and 4 mm held together. Remove the needle size 4 mm keeping stitches on the needle size 3.5 mm (this gives you an elastic cast-on edge). Work rib in the round (knit 2, purl 2) for 7 cm.
Fold the neck double to the inside and work 1 more round of rib, working every 4th stitch together with its corresponding stitch on the cast-on edge.
You now have a double neck. The yoke is measured from here.
YOKE
Change to circular needle size 4 mm. Insert 4 marker-threads and increase evenly as described below. NOTE: Each marker-thread is inserted between 2 knitted stitches and marks the raglan-line. (Begin of the round is between back piece and right sleeve).
Knit 2, insert marker-thread 1 between these 2 stitches, knit 14 (right sleeve), knit 2, insert marker-thread 2 between these 2 stitches, knit 22-22-26-26-26-26 and increase 4-4-6-6-6-8 stitches evenly over these stitches - read INCREASE TIP (= 26-26-32-32-32-34 stitches on the front piece), knit 2, insert marker-thread 3 between these 2 stitches, knit 14 (left sleeve), knit 2, insert marker-thread 4 between these 2 stitches, knit 22-22-26-26-26-26 and increase 4-4-6-6-6-8 stitches evenly over these stitches (= 26-26-32-32-32-34 stitches on the back piece) = 88-88-100-100-100-104 stitches.
Work stocking stitch in the round and increase for raglan as well as working stripes – read the next 2 sections before continuing!
RAGLAN
Increase for RAGLAN on each side of all 4 marker-threads – read description above, every 2nd round a total of 9-9-9-8-8-7 times = 160-160-172-164-164-160 stitches.
Continue to increase every 2nd round but every 2nd increase is only on the front and back pieces (4 stitches increased), i.e., increase on the front and back pieces every 2nd round and on the sleeves every 4th round. Increase like this 10-12-12-14-16-18 times on the front and back pieces (5-6-6-7-8-9 times on the sleeves). REMEMBER THE KNITTING TENSION!
STRIPES
When the piece measures 9-10-11-12-13-14 cm from the neck, work STRIPES – read description above.
After the last increase there are 220-232-244-248-260-268 stitches (66-70-76-78-82-86 stitches between the marker threads on the front and back pieces and 44-46-46-46-48-48 stitches between the marker threads on each sleeve).
Continue with stocking stitch and stripes but without further increases until the yoke measures 14-15-16-17-18-19 cm from the neck mid-front.
Now divide for the body and sleeves as follows:
Knit 1 as before, place the next 44-46-46-46-48-48 stitches on a thread for the sleeve, cast on 8-8-8-10-10-10 stitches (in side under sleeve), knit 66-70-76-78-82-86 (front piece), place the next 44-46-46-46-48-48 stitches on a thread for the sleeve, cast on 8-8-8-10-10-10 stitches (in side under sleeve), knit to end of round (= 66-70-76-78-82-86 back piece). The body and sleeves are finished separately. The piece is now measured from here!
BODY
= 148-156-168-176-184-192 stitches. Continue with stocking stitch and stripes until you have worked 4-5-5-6-7-7 beige stripes. Finish the piece with colour denim blue. When the body measures 15-18-21-24-27-29 cm from the division, knit 1 round and increase 20-24-24-28-28-28 stitches evenly spaced = 168-180-192-204-212-220 stitches.
Change to circular needle size 3.5 mm. Work rib (knit 2, purl 2) for 4 cm. Cast off a little loosely.
The jumper measures approx. 36-40-44-48-52-55 cm from the shoulder.
SLEEVES
Place the 44-46-46-46-48-48 stitches from the thread on the one side of the piece on short circular needle/double pointed needles size 4 mm and knit up 1 stitch in each of the 8-8-8-10-10-10 stitches cast on under the sleeve = 52-54-54-56-58-58 stitches. Insert a marker-thread in the middle of the new stitches under the sleeve.
Start at the marker-thread and continue stocking stitch and stripes in the round.
When the sleeve measures 2-2-3-3-3-3 cm, decrease 1 stitch on each side of the marker-thread – read DECREASE TIP. Decrease like this every 2-3-4-5-6-9 cm a total of 6-6-5-5-5-4 times = 40-42-44-46-48-50 stitches. When there are the same number of stripes on the sleeve as on the body, finish with colour denim blue. Work until the sleeve measures 15-20-23-26-30-35 cm from the division (or to desired length, there is approx. 4 cm left). Knit 1 round and increase 8-6-8-6-8-6 stitches evenly spaced = 48-48-52-52-56-56 stitches. Change to double pointed needles size 3.5 mm and work rib (knit 2, purl 2) for 4 cm. Cast off a little loosely. The sleeve measures approx. 19-24-27-30-34-39 cm from the division.
Work the other sleeve in the same way.
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