Summer Festival is about capturing the essence of Summer. Throw it on for comfort and warmth at your favourite music festival. Then relive the memory every time you slip it on for the rest of the year.

Knit top-down and seamlessly, this lightweight and easy to wear cardigan is the perfect long lounging cardie for slinging on over anything! Deep pockets and a circular lace motif evoking Summertime memories of Catherine wheels and ferris wheels, make it eye-catching yet casual.

Construction:
Summer Festival is a seamless knit worked from the top down. The bodice is constructed using traditional seamless raglan increases. However, initially only the shoulder and back sections are worked. The front sections of the cardigan are picked up later along the edge created by the front raglan shaping. These stitches are worked down with the back to create the garment’s body.

Both charts and instructions are included for the lace sections.

Sizing:
To fit upper chest measurement of:
32-40: 32/81.5 (34/86.5 36/91.5, 38/96.5, 40/101.5)
42-50: 42/106.5 (44/112, 46/117, 48/122, 50/127) inches/cm.

This garment is designed to be close fitting across the back. The ease of the garment is incorporated into the sizing already, with between 1¾ and 2¾ inches of positive ease across the size range.

Skill Level:
Intermediate

Techniques used:
Knitting and purling
Picking up stitches
Increasing, decreasing
Working from a chart
Lace knitting
Working small circumferences in the round

Yarn Requirements:
Henry’s Attic Kona Superwash Sport (100% wool; 770yd 704m/226g) - 2 (2, 3, 3, 3) 3 (3, 3, 4, 4) skeins.

OR 5ply/sportweight yarn of approximately:
32-40: 1420/1300 (1520/1390, 1600/1465, 1700/1555, 1800/1645)
42-50: 1980/1810 (2040/1865, 2190/2005, 2360/2160, 2450/2240)
yards/metres approximately.

Sample garment knit in Never-Ending Obsession Kona Superwash Sport, ‘Sunshine colourway’ (discontinued) in size 32.

NOTE: Summer Festival is part of a series of four related patterns available separately or as part of an ebook.

The related pattern Summer Carnival is a cropped version of this cardie, much like a 50s bolero. The raglan shaping, bodice and sleeves are worked slightly differently in each of these patterns to cater for the different fit and ease in the different style of sleeves.

The final two patterns are children’s versions of these two patterns; Carousel and Ferris Wheel.