Winter Weekend

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 the 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 DROPS Merino Extra Fine or DROPS Fiesta, using short circular needles sizes 4 and 3 mm held together. Remove the needle size 4 mm (this gives you an elastic cast-on edge). Work rib in the round as follows: Knit 1, * purl 2, knit 2, work from -* until there are 3 stitches left, purl 2, knit 1. Work this rib for 6 cm.

YOKE

Change to circular needle size 4 mm. Insert 4 marker-threads and increase evenly as follows: NOTE: Each marker-thread is inserted between 2 knitted stitches and mark the raglan-lines. The beginning of the round is between the back piece and the right sleeve.
Insert marker-thread 1 at the beginning of the round, knit 1, knit 14 (right sleeve), knit 2 and insert marker-thread 2 between these 2 stitches, knit 22-22-26-26-26-26 and increase 4-4-4-4-8-8 stitches evenly over these stitches - read INCREASE TIP (= 26-26-30-30-34-34 stitches on the front piece), knit 2 and insert marker-thread 3 between these 2 stitches, knit 14 (left sleeve), knit 2 and insert marker-thread 4 between these 2 stitches, knit 22-22-26-26-26-26 stitches and increase 4-4-4-4-8-8 stitches evenly over these stitches (= 26-26-30-30-34-34 stitches on the back piece), knit 1 = 88-88-96-96-104-104 stitches.

Work A.1 in the round with 2 knitted stitches in each raglan-line and increase for raglan. REMEMBER THE KNITTING TENSION!
Increase for RAGLAN on each side of all 4 marker-threads – read description above, every 2nd round 9-9-9-9-9-7 times = 160-160-168-168-176-160 stitches.
Continue to increase every 2nd round but every 2nd increase in only on the front and back pieces (4 increased stitches), i.e., increase on the front and back pieces every 2nd round and on the sleeves every 4th round. Increase like this 10-12-12-14-14-18 times on the front and back pieces (5-6-6-7-7-9 times on the sleeves) = a total of 19-21-21-23-23-25 times on the front and back pieces and 14-15-15-16-16-16 times on the sleeves.

After the final increase, there are 220-232-240-252-260-268 stitches. Continue the pattern but without further increases until the yoke measures 14-15-16-17-18-19 cm from the neck.
On the next round divide for the body and sleeves Place the first 44-46-46-48-48-48 stitches on a thread without working them (sleeve), cast on 6-6-10-10-10-10 stitches under the sleeve, work 66-70-74-78-82-86 stitches as before (front piece), place the next 44-46-46-48-48-48 stitches on a thread without working them (sleeve), cast on 6-6-10-10-10-10 stitches under the sleeve, work the last 66-70-74-78-82-86 stitches as before (back piece). The body and sleeves are finished separately. The piece is now measured from here!

BODY

= 144-152-168-176-184-192 stitches. Continue the pattern in the round for a further 15-18-21-24-27-29 cm. Knit 1 round and increase 20-24-24-28-28-28 stitches evenly spaced - remember INCREASE TIP = 164-176-192-204-212-220 stitches. Change to circular needle size 3 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 44-46-46-48-48-48 stitches from the thread on the one side of the piece on double pointed needles size 4 mm and knit up 1 stitch in each of the 6-6-10-10-10-10 stitches cast on under the sleeve = 50-52-56-58-58-58 stitches. Insert a marker-thread in the middle of the new stitches and allow it to follow your work onwards.
Start at the marker-thread and continue the pattern in the round.
When the sleeve measures 2-2-2-3-3-3 cm, decrease 1 stitch on each side of the marker-thread – read DECREASE TIP. Decrease like this every 2-3-3½-4-6-9 cm a total of 6-6-6-6-5-4 times = 38-40-44-46-48-50 stitches. 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 10-8-8-6-8-6 stitches evenly spaced = 48-48-52-52-56-56 stitches. Change to double pointed needles size 3 mm and work rib (knit 2, purl 2) for 4 cm. Loosely cast off. The sleeve measures approx. 19-24-27-30-34-39 cm from the division.
Work the other sleeve in the same way.