COLLEGE_LOOP_CARDIGAN

COLLEGE_LOOP_CARDIGAN is designed with saddle shoulders that extend across the entire back. The cardigan features a boxy silhouette with straight sleeves. Body and sleeves alike are concluded with a college-inspired striped ribbing. 

The cardigan is knitted top down. Begin by casting on stitches at the centre of the back, then knit back and forth across the left, then the right shoulder. Pick up stitches along the fronts of the shoulders and the back. Continue knitting back and forth while simultaneously working increases for the sleeves and neckline and later for the arm holes. The work is then divided, and the body and sleeves are knitted separately. The body is knitted back and forth with increases along both sides and concluded with a striped ribbing and tubular bind off. The sleeves are knitted in the round and concluded like the body with a striped ribbing and tubular bind off. Finally, pick up stitches for the vertical ribbing along the fronts and the V-neck. The ribbing is attached continuously, just like the buttonholes, which are also created continuously. 

Sizes and measurements_
1 (2) 3 (4) 5 (6)
Bust circumference_ 110 (116) 122 (129) 133 (140) cm.
Length_ 51 (52) 53 (54) 55 (56) cm measured from under the neckband on the back.
The cardigan has a fit with positive ease of 22-30 cm.
You should choose a size with a bust circumference 22-30 cm larger than your real bust circumference depending on how loose of a fit you’d like. 
The pictured cardigan is knitted in size 2 and has a positive ease of 30 cm. 

Materials_
Suggestion 1_
Colour A_ 1 strand of Jensen from Isager 50 g / 125 m. 350 (350) 400 (400) 450 (500) g.
Held together with
1 strand Silk Mohair from Isager 25 g / 212 m. 100 (100) 125 (125) 150 (150) g.
Colour B_ 1 strand Jensen from Isager 50 g / 125 m. 100 (100) 100 (100) 100 (100) g.
Held together with
1 strand Silk Mohair from Isager 25 g / 212 m
25 (25) 25 (25) 25 (25) g.
The pictured cardigan is knitted in Jensen – colour A: 58, B: 0 and Silk Mohair in colour A: 6, B: E0

Suggestion 2_
Colour A_ 1 strand YAK from Lang Yarns 50 g / 115 m. 400 (400) 450 (500) 500 (550) g.
Colour B_ 1 strand YAK from Lang Yarns 50 g / 115 m. 100 (100) 100 (100) 100 (100) g.

3 buttons size 23-25 mm.

Suggested needles_
Circular needles 4,5 mm (40 and 80 or 100 cm).
Circular needles 4 mm (80 or 100 cm) double pointed needles in the same size unless you knit using Magic Loop.
Double pointed needle 4 mm or an equivalent needle for the vertical ribbing.

Gauge_
18 sts x 28 rows in stockinette stitch on needles 4,5 mm = 10 x 10 cm. 

This COLLEGE_LOOP_CARDIGAN knitting pattern is in English.