Nordic Air by Gunilla Thorslund

Nordic Air

Knitting
April 2019
yarn held together
Any gauge - designed for any gauge ?
15 stitches and 20 rows = 4 inches
in stockinette stich
US 9 - 5.5 mm
875 - 1312 yards (800 - 1200 m)
S, M, L, XL
English
This pattern is available as a free Ravelry download

The sweater is made top down with a loose gauge to accomplish lightness in the fabric. The yoke is mainly made with aran wool in different colors and end with a purled row of bulky yarn and a frill made of silk mohair held double. Some texture is made with purled stitches in accent colors. The body is made with stitches picked up with fingering/DK wool yarn. Stitches are picked up from the bulky purl row under the frill, and worked in the round. The color work is made with a slipstitch pattern in several colors. Sleeves are made in the same wool yarn as the body, mainly with different red colors in stockinet stitch and mainly black purled rounds to separate the coloured stripes and to give some texture to the fabric. A very few accent colors are added. Ribbing at neck, sleeves and bottom in blackish yarns except for rib at one arm which is sky blue. Crochet neckline with bulky yarn in pink.

Use at least two different colors. I used the following scrap yarn:

Yoke
Lettlopi basic colors - 0056, 1420, 1700, 0085, 1416, 9418, 1403
Lettlopi accent colors – 1414, 9423, 1412, 1704
Eskimo – purled texture effect before frill

Frill at yoke
Drops Kid Silk - dark green 19

Body
Rauma Finull slipstitch pattern – 487,470, 411, 4006, 4077, 486 m. fl.
Rauma Finull ribbing - black

Sleeves
Rauma Finull stockinet stripes – 488, 425, 444, 466 (pink) or 4034 (blue), 419, 461, 4076
Rauma Finull purled stripes – 498 and black
Rauma Finull ribbing – 4034 and black
Eskimo purled stripes before ribbing

Crochet neckline
Eskimo

GAUGE AND NEEDLES
About 16 -17 stiches and 20 rounds per 10 cm/ 4 inches. Needles 5 ½ mm/US 9 and 4 ½ mm/US 7.
15 st and 20 rounds makes 10 cm/4”.

I have chosen to knit all parts but the rib with needles 5 ½ mm. This creates an airy and light fabric.