Whether walking outside to admire the changing foliage or visiting your local fiber fair, you’ll be ready for rain or shine in the Brontide Jacket. This modern twist on a classic plaid staple is worked back and forth in pieces. Once seamed, vertical stripes are added up purl columns of the body and down purl columns of the sleeves using slip-stitch crochet. The finished result is a garment you’ll wear for years to come.

Difficulty Complex

Yarn Weight 1

Finished Size 35½ (39½, 43½, 47½, 51½, 55½, 59½, 63½)“ circumference at underarm, buttoned. Cardigan shown measures 43½”; modeled with 1½“ of positive ease.

Yarn Jamieson’s Shetland Spindrift (100% pure Shetland wool; 115 yd 105 m/7/8 oz 25 g): #879 Copper (red-brown; MC), 11 (12, 13, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19) balls; #462 Ginger (orange-red; CC1), 3 (3, 3, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4) balls; #151 Titanic (blue-green; CC2), 2 (2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3) balls; #685 Delph (blue; CC3), 1 (1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2) ball(s). Yarn distributed by Simply Shetland.

Needles Size 3 (3.25 mm): 16” and 40” circular (cir) and set of double-pointed (dpn). Adjust needle size if necessary to obtain the correct gauge.

Notions Markers (m); stitch holders; size E/4 (3.5 mm) crochet hook; nine 13/16” buttons; nine pairs of 5/16” snap fasteners; sewing needle and thread; tapestry needle.

Gauge 24 sts and 39 rows = 4” in St st.

NOTES
• For techniques you don’t know, please visit our online knitting glossary at www.interweave.com/interweave-knitting-glossary.

• The body of this cardigan is worked back and forth in one piece to the underarm, then the fronts and back are worked separately. The sleeves are worked in the round from the top down. During finishing, the vertical stripes are applied up the purl columns of the body and down the purl columns of the sleeves using slip-stitch crochet.

• A circular needle is used to accommodate the large number of stitches and to be able to slide stitches to access the working yarn.

• To avoid breaking and rejoining yarns when working single rows of the contrasting colors (CC) in the horizontal stripe pattern, slide the stitches to the end of the needle with the working yarn; this will mean sometimes working two consecutive right-side or wrong-side rows. Do not carry yarns up more than 8 rows. Right-side and wrong-side row designations in the instructions assume that a right-side row always follows a wrong-side row.