Drangar for kids by Ástþrúður Sif Sveinsdóttir

Drangar for kids

Knitting
November 2025
DK (11 wpi) ?
24 stitches and 32 rows = 4 inches
US 4 - 3.5 mm
US 2½ - 3.0 mm
601 - 766 yards (550 - 700 m)
104, 116, 128, 140, 152 cm (4 - 12 years)
English Icelandic
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CONSTRUCTION
Drangar for kids is a top-down seamless circular yoke sweater with colorwork, inspired by the traditional Icelandic sweater. You cast on at the neckline and knit down following the chart. When the yoke is finished the sleeves are separated from the body by slipping stitches onto a holder or waste yarn and are knitted later. When the main body is finished, you transfer the sleeve stiches from the holder/waste yarn to a needle and pick up stitches from the armhole. Then the sleeves are knitted from the armhole to the wrist. It is easy to adjust the length.

SIZES
The pattern has 5 sizes from 104-152 cm (4 – 12 years)

GAUGE
10 x 10 cm = 24 sts and 32 rows in st st using 3½ mm needles.

MATERIAL
Pernilla – Filcolana, 170m/50g skeins
A = 102 Black 2 (3, 3, 4, 4)
B = 101 Natural White 1 (1, 1, 1, 1)
Or
Drops Alpaca, 167 m/50 g skeins
A = 8903 Black 2 (3, 3, 4, 4)
B = 101 White 1 (1, 1, 1, 1)
Circular needles no 3, 3½ mm, 40 and 80 cm long
Double pointed needles no 3½.

Optional:
You can play with colors and use your left-over yarn for the pattern and ribbings.