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Love Cable Cardigan is designed for cable lovers. The cables are only in the front which makes this project interesting yet manageable for adventurous knitters. The pattern comes with plenty of video tutorials to guide you along. In this pattern, you will learn how to do shaping while maintaining pattern stitch, both for the charted version and for the written version. All the cables in this pattern can be worked without a cable needle and the pattern includes video tutorials on how to do it. It can either be worked in cotton or wool, making it the perfect year round garment, no matter your climate zone.

This design is worked from the bottom up in one piece, then the fronts and back are separated. Despite being a bottom up design, it can easily be lengthened. The sleeves are worked seamlessly from the top down.

Love Cable Cardigan is graded with inclusive sizing in mind, designed to fit actual bust sizes from 76 cm / 30 inches to 168 cm / 66 inches. Measurements are given in both cm and inches.

Materials

Yarn

Bulky weight

Shown here:

We are Knitters The Petite Wool (100% Wool; 140 m / 153 yds, 100 g / 3.5 oz skein; Color #skylovers): 5 (5, 5, 6, 6) {7, 7, 8, 8, 9} balls

Yardage: 570 (615, 685, 740, 805) {890, 955, 1030, 1080, 1190} m / 625 (670, 750, 810, 885) {970, 1045, 1125, 1185, 1300} yds, including 10% allowance

Notions

5 buttons of diameter about 26 mm / 1 inch; optional cable needle; 5 removable stitch markers for marking button placement; stitch markers in 2 colors; waste yarn; yarn needle

Needles

• 8 mm / US 11 circular needle of length 60-100 cm / 24-40 inches, depending on your size; adjust needle size if necessary to obtain gauge.

• 8 mm / US 11 needle(s) in your preferred style for small circumference knitting in the round, for the sleeves.

• 6.5 mm / US 10.5 needle of length 60-100 cm / 24-40 inches, depending on your size, for the hem.

• 6.5 mm / US 10.5 needle(s) in your preferred style for small circumference knitting in the round, for the cuffs.

• 6 mm / US 10 circular needles of length at least 60 cm / 24 inches, for the neckband.

Gauge

12 sts and 16 rows = 10 cm / 4 inches in Moss stitch on the largest needle (both in the round and worked flat), blocked.

Sizes
#sizeinclusive

Size 1 (2, 3, 4, 5) {6, 7, 8, 9, 10}

This garment is intended to be worn with about 4.5-10 cm / 1.75-4 inches positive ease.

Shown in size 1, modeled with 7 cm / 2.75 inches of positive ease.

Finished Measurements

Bust circumference: 86 (91, 102.5, 111, 124.5) {135, 143.5, 155, 163.5, 175} cm / 33.75 (35.75, 40.5, 43.75, 49) {53.25, 56.5, 61, 64.25, 69} inches

Required Skills

Cable knitting, decreases, increases, knitting in the round, picking up stitches, short rows, three-needle bind-off