Lace Leaves Cardigan is worked from the top down and features a delicate lace and cable pattern along the fronts, a 2-button closure at the base of the V-neck, and a classic set-in sleeve silhouette with optional waist shaping. The sleeves and body are shaped together down to the armhole. The cardigan is worked with a strand of brushed alpaca silk and a strand of merino silk held together, creating a wonderful sheen and halo to the fabric.

Skills used:
Provisional cast on, increasing and decreasing, simple cables, simple lace (yarn overs, and decreases), German short rows (or comparable method), picking up sts, i-cord bind off and buttonholes (video links provided for many of these techniques)

Sizes:
1 (2, 3, 4, 5) (6, 7, 8, 9)

Finished measurements:
Bust: 34 (36 ½, 38, 40 ½, 44 ½) (48 ½, 52 ½, 56 ½, 60 ½)” / 86.5 (93, 96.5, 103, 113) (123, 133.5, 143.5, 153.5) cm (buttoned).
Length: 20 ¼ (21, 21 ¼, 22 ¼, 21 ¾) (22 ¾, 23, 23 ¾, 24)” / 51.5 (53.5, 54, 56.5, 55) (58, 58.5, 60.5, 61) cm
Upper arm circumference:
12.5 (13 ½, 14, 15 ¼, 16 ½) (17 ¼, 18, 19 ¼, 20)”/
32 (34, 35.5, 39, 42) (44, 46, 49, 51) cm

Recommended ease:
0”- 4” / 0 - 10 cm at bust. Choose a size that is
0”- 4” / 0 - 10 cm larger than your actual bust size.

Sample shown is size 1 with 1”/ 2.5 cm of positive ease.

Yarn:
Approximately 800 (840, 880, 920, 980), (1040, 1100, 1160, 1235) yds of lace weight yarn held together with,
800 (840, 880, 920, 980), (1040, 1100, 1160, 1235) yds of lace weight yarn.

Alternatively, a single strand of heavy fingering or sport weight yarn may be used. This will require approximately
800 (840, 880, 920, 980), (1040, 1100, 1160, 1235) yds of lace weight yarn.

Yarn used in the sample:
Cape May Fiber Butterfly Lace (80% super wash merino, 20% silk) in Saltwater Taffy 1 (1, 2, 2, 2) (2, 2, 3, 3) 100g / 876 yd skeins and,
Cape May Fiber Brushed Alpaca Silk (74% Baby Suri Alpaca, 26% Mulberry Silk) in Saltwater Taffy 3 (3, 3, 4, 4) (4, 5, 5, 5) 50g / 328 yd skeins.
Note: These two yarns were held together throughout.

Note on yarn amounts: The amounts shown are estimates and could vary depending on the type of yarn fiber used and personal tension.

Needles:
Main needle: US size 6 (4mm) 24”/ 61 cm or longer and 16” /40.5 cm circular or size needle needed to obtain the correct gauge.
Edging needle: US Size 5 (3.75 mm) 24”/61 cm or longer, 16”/40.5 cm circular or needle one size smaller than the main needle and double pointed needles or preferred needles for working a small circumference in the round.

Gauge:
20 sts and 28 rows = 4”/ 10 cm in st st and lace and cable pattern, after blocking on main needle.

Notions:
Cable needle, st marker, st holder or scrap yarn