This comfortable, relaxed-fit cardigan will become your favourite winter companion.
What's Included?
Would you love your very own cabled cardigan but don't know where to start? Then this is the class for you!
This workshop takes you through every step of the process, from the cast-ons you'll need to deciding on size and correcting common cable problems.
Some of the techniques covered in this course are:
- Long-Tail Cast-On (Thumb Method)
- How to setup the ribbing
- Different types of cable stitches
- How to setup and knit the underarm gusset
- How to knit short rows.
- Working neck decreases
- 3-Needle Bind-Off
- How to pick up sleeve stitches
- Working buttonholes
- Shawl Collar Modification
Behind The Design
The Oscail Cardigan was designed by Carol Feller. Oscail is the Irish for ‘open’, and this is echoed in this cable, which is large but very open and expansive, creating an interlocking trellis.
The dominant feature of this cardigan is the large, open cable that is entwined up the back. The two front cables are smaller echoes of this larger one that divide the big cable in have for each side of the front.
This cardigan is designed to be a relaxed fit, and generously sized. For the adventurous knitter it would even be possible to add some short rows at the back of the neck to include a shawl collar!
If you'd like to learn even more about this cabled shawl, you can read our blog here.
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Meet The Oscail Cardigan
Press play on this video and Carol will explain pattern construction and some of the
tips and techniques you'll find inside this learn to knit course:
Pattern Information
SIZES
To Fit Actual Bust Circumference Up To: 34 (37.25, 41.5, 45.25, 49, 52.75, 56.5, 60.25)” / 86.5 (96, 105.5, 115, 124.5, 134, 143.5, 153) cm
2.5 - 4.5” / 6.5-11.5 cm of positive ease recommended.
FINISHED MEASUREMENTS
Bust Circumference: 36.5 (40.25, 44, 47.75, 51.5, 55.25, 59, 62.75)” / 92.5 (102, 112, 121.5, 131, 140.5, 150, 159.5) cm buttoned below underarm gusset
Size 40.25” / 101 cm modelled with 4.25”/ 11 cm positive ease.
Length from Back of Neck: 22.25 (23.25, 24, 24.75, 26.25, 27.25, 28, 28.75)” / 56.5 (59, 61, 63, 66.5, 69, 71, 73) cm, not including neckband
GAUGE
17 sts and 24 rows / rnds = 4” / 10 cm in Reverse St St with larger needle
19 sts and 28 rows / rnds = 4” / 10 cm in Ribbing unstretched with smaller needle
Back Cable (26 sts) measures 4.5” / 11.5 cm across
Right or Left Front Cable (13 sts) measures 2.25” / 5.5 cm across
Side Cable (12 sts) measures 2.25” / 5.5 cm across
YARN
Stolen Stitches ‘Deas’ (86% Merino Wool, 14% Mohair; 202 yds / 185 m per 3.6 oz / 100 g); colour: Sap, 5 (6, 6, 7, 8, 8, 9, 10) skeins
Approximate Yardage: 968 (1053, 1180, 1300, 1456, 1606, 1744, 1895) yds / 885 (965, 1080, 1191, 1334, 1471, 1598, 1735) m
NEEDLES & NOTIONS
US size 8 / 5 mm circular needles, 40” / 100 cm long (or longer for larger sizes if desired)
US size 8 / 5 mm dpns if magic loop not used for sleeves
US size 7 / 4.5 mm circular needles, 40” / 100 cm long (or longer for larger sizes) for Ribbing
US size 7 / 4.5 mm dpns if magic loop not used for Ribbing
Always use a needle size that gives you the gauge listed, as every knitter’s gauge is unique.
Tapestry needle, waste yarn or spare needle, markers, 7 (7, 7, 7, 8, 8, 8, 8) buttons 1” / 23 mm diameter.
Would you like a look at the course content?
- Casting On Body (3:35)
- Body Ribbing Setup (2:49)
- Body Cable Overview (6:59)
- Body Increase Row (6:09)
- Body CableSetup (5:07)
- Cable Chart Overview (4:11)
- 3 by 3 Left Cross (2:19)
- 1 by 1 Cables (1:33)
- 3 by 3 Right Cross (1:54)
- 3 by 1 Cables (2:44)
- Underarm Gusset Set-Up (3:10)
- Underarm Gusset Increases (2:32)
- Binding Off Underarm (4:45)
- Left Front Overview & Decreases (4:52)
- Left Front Shoulder Short Rows (4:09)
- Left Front Shoulder Final Short Row (1:40)
- Right Front WS Set-Up (1:46)
- RIght Front Neck Decreases (3:38)
- Right Front Short Rows (4:05)
- Upper Back Overview (3:36)
- Back Shoulder Short Rows (2:47)
- Back Short Rows & Neck Bind-Off (5:01)
- Left Back Neck Decreases (1:09)
- Right Back Neck Decreases (1:06)
- Shoulder 3-Needle Bind-Off (2:25)
- Picking Up Sleeve Stitches (4:35)
- Setting-Up Sleeve Pattern (4:08)
- Sleeve Decrease Round (2:29)
- Sleeve Ribbing Setup (3:16)
- Front Edge Picking-Up Stitches (4:17)
- Setting-Up Front Edge Ribbing (1:56)
- Working Buttonholes (4:28)
- Modification: Shawl Collar
Would you like a yarn kit?
Find all the yarn you need for the Oscail Cardigan in the warm, earthy tones of Stolen Stitches ‘Deas’.
Deas is an aran weight Irish yarn, 86% Merino Wool and 14% Mohair woollen spun yarn with a soft halo when blocked. The mohair content creates a warm fabric that is deceptively light to wear.
Kit contains yarn and a project bag only.
Meet The Teacher
Carol trained initially as a textile artist and then as a structural engineer. While both of these backgrounds are very different the influences can be seen in her design work which is well-shaped, flattering to wear and enjoyable to knit.
She strives to design clothing with a difference: not overly complex, but still giving a very unique end product. She likes to work with different construction methods, so long as they enhance the knitting experience and make for a more intuitively put-together knitted item.
Carol has been widely published in books and magazine and travels the world teaching in yarn shops and fibre festivals. The classes she teaches cover a wide range of subjects from cables and chart reading, through garment shaping and customisation right through to short rows and colourwork. In her classes you'll move from learning the basics to refining your knitting skills and fixing problems.
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