Dakota Cardigan Pattern

MY DESIGN IDEAS & ADVICE
I was inspired by the trend for boyfriend cardigans for this design. I love looking at what people wear, what we called street culture when I was as fashion college, and I love vintage patterns. This design was inspired by research in both of those areas. I wanted a simple v neck cardigan, as other knitters that popped into my Skipton studio wanted too, that was great for men and woman. One knitter came in for the pattern and yarn to knit herself this cardigan then popped back in a few days later as her husband had requested one too!
Oh and I almost forgot to mention – the best bit about this long v neck cardigan – no neck edges to pick up, I included the edging, love it!!

CONSTRUCTION
The back, left front with pocket, right front with pocket, two sleeves are knitted flat in seperate pieces and joined together. The neck edge is knitted at the same time as when knitting the fronts so there are no stitches to pick up.

TECHNIQUES USED
Cast on, knit, purl, increasing on sleeves, decreasing on main pieces, pockets, buttonholes, cast off, seaming, sewing on buttons. Optional but recommended to create a joy of joining your pieces: mattress stitch seaming and three needle cast off.

FINISHED MEASUREMENTS
I recommend a positive ease of 2-5”/5-12cm at the chest/bust.
sizes
1 (2, 3, 4, 5)
chest circumference
89 (97, 108, 120, 131)cm/35 (38, 42½, 47¼, 51½)ins
length (from top of shoulder to cast on edge)
64 (66, 69, 70, 73)cm/25¼ (26, 23½, 24½, 28¾)ins
sleeve length (from underarm to cast on edge) all sizes
44cm/17½ins

YARN
5(5:6:6:7) 100g hanks of WYS Bluefaced Leicester DK Undyed (100% Bluefaced Leicester Wool, e 100g/225m/245yds).

SUGGESTED NEEDLES
3.75mm and 4mm.

NOTIONS
Five button (size is approx. 22mm in diameter)

GAUGE (tension)
21 stitches and 26 rows to 10cm/4ins square over stocking stitch. I obtained this gauge with 4mm needles. It is important to obtain gauge so do swatch and change your needle size to achieve the correct gauge if you need to.

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