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After the Flood

An intuitive and deceptively simple cocooning cardigan, worked from the top down with sleek details and minimal finishing. This design is named for the inspired and spacious Talk Talk track from their final studio album, Laughing Stock (1991).

Yarn
Kate Davies Designs Schiehallion (100% British wool; 110m / 120 yds per 50g skein)
For You Blue: 9 (10, 12, 13) x 50g skeins

If you wish to add length to body or sleeves you may need more yarn.

Needles and Notions
Gauge-size and below gauge-size circular needles of appropriate lengths for working body, yoke, and neckline
Spare needle cord for holding body stitches
Spare needle cords or waste yarn for holding pocket stitches
Gauge-size and below gauge-size needle(s) of your preferred type for working small circumferences
Waste yarn for holding stitches
Tapestry needle

Gauge
22 sts and 30 rounds to 10cm / 4in over stockinette (in the round and back and forth) using gauge-size needle. Use 3.75mm needle as a starting point for swatching.
Note that if your gauge has a tendency to draw in over small circumferences, you may need to go up a needle size for sleeves.

Sizes
Finished chest circumference: 119.5 (136, 154,5, 171)cm / 47 (53½, 60¾, 67¼) in
Select the size above your actual chest measurement with 38cm / 15in positive ease
Measurements take account of the proportionate drawing-in effect of the two front panels.
Shown in the first size with approx. 38cm / 15in positive ease

Pattern notes
This cardigan, with its nifty integrated edging, involves minimal finishing and is worked from the top down. First, the back shoulders are cast on and worked down to the underarms. Each front is picked up separately from the shoulder piece, and worked in a twisted stitch pattern to match the back. At the underarms, the three pieces are joined and worked back and forth to the knitter’s desired length, before two sleeves are picked up and worked from the top down.