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April 21, 2019

This is a pattern for a traditional icelandic sleeveless sweater with puffins,standing on lava rocks around the yoke. The scenery also features some flowersand the typical icelandic partly cloudy sky. The puffins are worked with 4colours per round, which makes them a little bit tricky to knit.Copyright: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, drehumdiebolzeningenieurin@gmail.com

Keywords: Puffin, Lopapeysa, Vest, stranded knitting, Fair Isle, Léttlopi,bottom-up chart, circular-yoke, icelandic, in-the-round, Pullunder

MaterialsLétt-Lopi - 50 g ballsAdult sweaterA 9421 celery green 5 5 6 7B 0059 black 1 1 1 1C 1704 apricot 1 1 1 1D 0051 white 1 1 1 1E 1402 heaven blue 1 1 1 1Child’s sweaterA 9421 celery green 4 4 5 5B 0059 black 1 1 1 1C 1704 apricot 1 1 1 1D 0051 white 1 1 1 1E 1402 heaven blue 1 1 1 1

3.5mm and 4.5mm circular needle40mm and 60-80mm

Gauge

18 sts and 24 rows = 10 cm in St st using4.5mm needles.

Note

Body is worked in the round from lower edgeto underarms, then worked back and forthfor 4 rows. The yoke is worked in the round

again. Round begins at the left side of thebody, yoke round begins at the back sideof the left shoulder. This instructions arefor a sleeveless sweater. If you want sleeves,check out http://istex.is/Files/Skra_0051195.pdf, the stitch count is the same.

The puffins are worked with 3-4 colors perround, which can cause less elasticity of thefabric than rounds with only one color. Sobe aware of your tension and of the floats inthe back. For rounds (18 - 20) 24 -26 it couldbe an option to work with only two colorsby knitting every round twice, the first timewith color A and B, the second time withcolor C and D, slipping the stitches, whichshould be worked in the colors, which arenot on your fingers.

The sweater shown here has a longer body(57 cm) than in this instructions, since themodel likes to have a warm butt. Measurethe desired length from cast on edge to un-derarm and work body as long as you preferit.

The featured sweater is a men’s size XL,all other sizes are guessed based on otherinstructions for lopapeysa sweaters.

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Table 1: Body measurement

Women (Men) S M L XLchildren [years] (8-10 10-12)chest [cm] 80 90 90 98 107 114

Table 2: Stitchcount

Women (Men) S M L XLchildren [years] (8-10 10-12)cast on 144 160 160 176 192 208armhole bind off 6 8 12 14 16 18front/back 66 72 68 74 80 86shoulder cast on 38 42 52 (60) 54 (62) 56 (64) 58 (66)yoke 208 224 240 (256) 256 (272) 272 (288) 288 (304)neck 78 84 90 (96) 96 (102) 102 (108) 108 (114)neckband dec 10 12 18 (22) 22 (26) 26 (30) 30 (34)neckband 68 72 72 (74) 74 (76) 76 (78) 78 (80)

Body

Cast on sts according to Tab. 2 using 3.5mmneedle in color A. Join in a round, pm andwork *k2, p2* rib for 4 cm. Change to4.5mm needle and work in St st until bodymeasures, children: (34, 38) cm, women: 38,40, 42, 43 cm, men: 41, 43, 45, 47 cm fromcast on edge. (If you want sleeves, set bodyaside and work sleeves. After sleeves andbody are joined proceed with this instruc-tion in the "pattern" section) Do not worklast (3, 4) 6, 7, 8, 9 sts in last round.

Yoke

Bind off sts according to Tab. 2 for leftunderarm. Work front (66, 72) 68, 74, 80,86 sts. Bind off (6, 8) 12, 14, 16, 18 sts forright underarm. Work back and forth inSt st for 4 rows (back and front). Cast onsts according to Tab. 2 for left shoulder, kfront, cast on sts according to Tab. 2 forright shoulder, k back. St count see yoke inTab. 2.

PatternWork pattern and decreases from ChartA (adults) or B (children) as indicated.Change to shorter circular needle when nec-essary. When chart is finished, stitchcountis according to neck in Tab. 2.

NeckbandChange to 3.5mm needle, using color E. K 1round and dec evenly spaced sts accordingto Tab. 2 neckband dec. Work *k2 p2* ribfor 3 cm. Bind off with Jeny’s surprisinglystretchy bind off.

FinishWeave in loose ends. Rinse sweater in luke-warm water and lay flat and block to rightmeasurements to dry.

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Figure 1: Chart A Adults

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Figure 2: Chart B Children

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