This lightweight cardigan features crossed stockinette, two bold cables, and a cozy shawl collar. It is knit seamlessly using a construction method adapted from Barbara Walker’s top-down simultaneous set-in sleeves in Knitting from the Top.

• Skills required
• Long-tail cast-on
• Short rows
• Cables
• Picking up stitches
• Increasing
• Decreasing
• Backwards-loop cast-on

Yardage details
1565, (1680, 1795, 1900), {2010, 2115, 2230} yards

Crossed stockinette:
To work flat – knit through the back loops, purl as usual
To work in the round – alternate knitting through the back loops one round and knitting as usual one round