Calamity by Patricia Roberts

Calamity

Knitting
January 1980
DK (11 wpi) ?
20 stitches and 23 rows = 4 inches
in pattern stitch
US 3 - 3.25 mm
US 5 - 3.75 mm
US 6 - 4.0 mm
small - medium
English

The Calamity cardigan features a striped plaid design. The mohair version appears in this pattern book, The cotton boucle version pictured here appears in the Patricia Roberts Knitting Book, though instructions for the cotton version are also included in this book.

Gauge/tension

10 stitches - 1 repeat of the pattern - to 5cm (2”) in width and 23 rows of the pattern to 10cm (4”) in length

Sizes small/medium/large (measurements at underarm in cm then inches)

Small 82.5 - 85 (33 - 34)
Medium 92.5 - 95 (37 - 38)

Yarn

14 x 25 gram balls of Woollybear Mohair in main colour and assorted contrast colours

For the cotton boucle version, 10 x 50g balls in main colour and 2 balls in each of the 5 contrast colours

Pattern available with yarn from the Patricia Roberts’ shop in London.