Zinger Cardigan

$12.50

Zinger is a perfect summer cardigan with layer-friendly lines and fun stripes. It features a simple double-stripe pattern on the body, and contrasting-color edges on the sleeves and button band – all within a flattering deep-V, short-sleeve silhouette. The edges are trimmed with broken 1×1 rib.

I love Zinger in the drapey, fingering-weight yarn that I used (from Indigodragonfly), but you can work it in whatever gauge you like – just note that the thicker your yarn, the thicker the stripes will be, too. Zinger features short sleeves and your long-sweater-length by default, but you can change both of those (and the pattern's silhouette) as you're customizing.

The Zinger Cardigan is available as a custom-gauge, custom-size pattern via my CustomFit custom pattern generator. Upon purchase, you'll receive a credit for a custom version of Trimmings and instructions on how to create it.

Description

The Zinger Cardigan is available as a custom-gauge, custom-size pattern via my CustomFit custom pattern generator. Upon purchase, you’ll receive a credit for a custom version of Trimmings and instructions on how to create it.

Zinger is a perfect summer cardigan with layer-friendly lines and fun stripes. It features a simple double-stripe pattern on the body, and contrasting-color edges on the sleeves and button band – all within a flattering deep-V, short-sleeve silhouette. The edges are trimmed with broken 1×1 rib.

I love Zinger in the drapey, fingering-weight yarn that I used (from Indigodragonfly), but you can work it in whatever gauge you like – just note that the thicker your yarn, the thicker the stripes will be, too. Zinger features short sleeves and your long-sweater-length by default, but you can change both of those (and the pattern’s silhouette) as you’re customizing.

Sizing

Zinger is available as a custom-gauge, custom-size pattern for the yarn and measurements of your choice via CustomFit. It’s shown here on Amy in an “hourglass close fit” with an hourglass silhouette, but is available with a-line, straight, and tapered silhouettes as well. It can be made in all of CustomFit’s fit choices for men, women, or children.

Gauge

Your own customized version of the Zinger pattern will be written to your gauge, whatever it may be. Zinger will look good in a variety of yarn weights, but if you’d like to preserve the proportion of the stripes vs. body, I recommend a fingering or sport weight for this sweater.

Materials

I used Indigodragonfy Chameleon for this sample, one of my very favorite sweater yarns. It’s a luscious mix of merino, cashmere, and silk – and the drape and sheen that the silk provides are beautiful foils for Zinger’s stripe pattern. I used the colors “Who Doesn’t Love a Kangaroo?” (orange) and “Tina Turner wants her wig back” (blue), both special-edition colorways I fell in love with at the 2016 make. wear. love. west retreat – but the fun of this design is putting your own individual color stamp on the stripes.

To make a standard-size 30 (32, 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44, 48, 52, 56, 60)’’ / 76 (81.5, 86.5, 91.5, 96.5, 101.5, 106.5, 112, 122, 132, 142, 152.5) cm short-sleeve sweater, you’ll need approximately 2 (3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 4, 4, 4, 5, 5, 5) hanks of Chameleon, total.

(If you’re using anything else, I strongly recommend Hannah Fettig’s excellent app Stashbot for estimating your yardage needs.)

The buttons are from Moving Mud, talented glass artisans who are one of my yearly stops at the New York Sheep & Wool festival.

Construction

Zinger is worked in pieces from the bottom up and then seamed, with set-in sleeves.

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