Charpentier Cardigan by Nancy Vandivert

Craft: Knitting

This pattern is available on Ravelry.  

Our Spring ‘21 Make It Now collection features stitch textures -- mesh, cables, seed, eyelets, and knit-purl combinations in embossed relief -- in light fabrics and soft colors that highlight March’s transitional weather.

As March is also Women’s History Month, the pattern names nod to women who’ve won the Nobel Prize: Grazia Deledda (Literature, 1926), Emmanuelle Charpentier (Chemistry, 2020), Shirin Ebadi (Peace, 2003), Gertrude Elion (Medicine, 1988), Ada Yonath (Chemistry, 2009), and Alice Munro (Literature, 2013).

The deep v-neck of the Charpentier Cardigan flows continuously into crossover body. Knit in one piece from the top-down, the design features a lace panel that begins at the shoulder for the sleeves and at the bust line for the body.

Please note the stitch pattern is charted.

Sizes

Finished Bust Circumference: 35½ (39½, 44, 48) (52, 56½, 59, 62½)”

Length: 18½ (20, 21, 21½) (22, 22½, 23½, 24¼)” from base of neckband to lower edge at center back, and 1” longer at center front

Sweater shown measures 39½”.

Yarn

Manos del Uruguay ALPACA HEATHER (70% wool, 30% alpaca; approx. 164 yds/50 g):

6 (7, 8, 9) (10, 11, 12, 13) sks.

Shown in H21791 Goji Berry

Needles & Notions

US 2/2.75mm 24” and 40” circular needles and double-pointed needles, or size needed to obtain gauge

US C-2/2.75mm crochet hook

Smooth, contrasting waste yarn for provisional cast-on

Stitch markers (2 different colors to indicate raglans and lace patterns)

Removable stitch markers

Stitch holders or waste yarn

Tapestry needle

Gauge

23 sts and 36½ rows/rnds = 4”/10cm in St st, after blocking.

23 sts and 30½ rows/rnds = 4”/10cm in lace patterns, after blocking.

Notes

This button-less cardigan is worked in one piece from the top down. After completing the raglan yoke, the stitches are divided for working the lower body in rows to the lower edge, and the sleeves in the round down to the cuffs.

The yoke begins by working two mirror-image sections of the neckband outward from the center of the back neck. Stitches for the fronts, back, and sleeves are picked up along one edge of the neckband, between the two sets of live neckband stitches, then worked downwards with raglan increases.