Leavings is one of 17 designs in Åsa Tricosa Ziggurats · Colour & Texture

♥ in memory of Moira ♥

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Leavings is a tailored Ziggurat cropped cardigan (or jacket) with built-in buttonbands and finished with a sweet garland on hem and cuffs.
The woolly or, hairy even, yarn is knitted on a smaller needle than I would normally use for DK – I wanted a firmer fabric.

It is another perfect between-the-seasons cardigan.

The lined hem is not double-knitted but the two layers are nevertheless worked together, one row at a time in order to fashion a beautiful edge next to the buttonband.
You will find a photo tutorial for this hem – and other useful hems – in the generous tutorial section of the book.

• Ziggurat: everything is knitted in one go, top to bottom
• no seaming
• built-in buttonbands
• no finishing work – bind off and you are done (as in done-done) As usual, there’s the Helpful Table to keep track of increases from shoulder to underarm cast-on.

sizes
(1 · 2 · 3 · 4 · 5) (6 · 7 · 8 · 9 · 10)

finished shoulder width
(31.5 · 32.5 · 34 · 36 · 37.5) (38.5 · 39 · 41 · 43.5 · 44) cm
(12.5 · 12.75 · 13.5 · 14.25 · 14.75) (15.25 · 15.25 · 16.25 · 17.25 · 17.25)“

finished bust measurement – with approx 7 cm (3”) ease
(86 · 91 · 96 · 101 · 106) (111 · 116 · 121 · 132.5 · 142.5) cm
(12.5 · 12.75 · 13.5 · 14.25 · 14.75) (15.25 · 15.25 · 16.25 · 17.25 · 17.25)“

yarn
Hjelholt Pelsuld 5.5/2 (light DK, 100% wool, 275 m (301 yds) per 100 g), black (sort) x (4 · 4 · 4 · 5 · 5) (5 · 6 · 6 · 6 · 7) skeins

Rauma Finull (sport, 100% wool, 175 m (191 yds) per 50 g), 1 ball each of
C2: Silver (Lys Grå 403)
C3: brown (Mørk Kamelbrun 4065) – a few yards suffices
C4: olive (olivengrønn 4010) – lining yarn

approximate yardage
(1000 · 1050 · 1150 · 1250 · 1350) (1350 · 1500 · 1550 · 1700 · 1800) m
(1100 · 1150 · 1250 · 1350 · 1450) (1500 · 1600 · 1650 · 1850 · 2000) yds

samples
Black · Hjelholt Pelsuld 5.5/2 · size 5 · middling bust dart · 438 g · 15.5 oz
Green · Posh Yarn Clara DK · size 6 increased to size 8 · wowza! bust dart · 491 g · 17.5 oz

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