Ruffled Cardigan Pattern by Meg Crowther

Turn heads in a Two-Tone Ruffled Cardigan

We’ve got a treat in store for you if you love vintage knits: our gorgeous new Ruffled Cardigan pattern is knitted in wonderful Coquette Vintage Cotton Yarn in authentic 1920s and 30s colours. The Ruffled Cardigan was designed exclusively for knitshop.co.uk by noted knitwear designer Meg Crowther, as seen in Knit Magazine.

The rib stitch design cardigan follows the body’s contours thanks to the easy-to-follow shaping instructions. In places, extra stitches are created, while elsewhere you knit two stitches together. The contrasting ruffles that trim the front and collar of the cardigan are created by making extra stitches at regular intervals along the row. The ripple effect is stunning. 

Ruffled Cardigan as seen in Knit Magazine.
Colours: Aquamarine and Amethyst.

Coquette is a 4ply yarn available in 50g centre-pull balls. Each ball costs £3.95 and is 125m long. The yarn knits to a tension of 28 stitches over 36 rows on 3mm – 3.25mm needles. 

 

To make the cardigan you’ll need between 9 and 14 balls of Coquette Vintage Cotton Yarn for the main colour plus four 50g balls of the contrast colour. There’s a choice of 13 shades in the range. If you want to check how the colours look together, why not order a 10g sample of each? 

Coquette Vintage Cotton Yarn
colours from left to right:
Wine, Oyster, Canary, Flame, Highland, Pumpkin,
Carnation, Old Lace, Aquamarine, Snow, Spermint, Sapphire and Amethyst.

The fully-illustrated pattern shows how the Ruffled Cardigan looks when knitted in different colours of Coquette Vintage Cotton Yarn. The first uses Aquamarine as the main colour with Amethyst for the contrast trim. The second version shows the Ruffled Cardigan knitted in Flame Coquette yarn with Old Lace for the ruffles.

Ruffled Cardigan knitted in Coquette Vintage Cotton Yarn
colours: Flame and Old Lace.

 

knitshop.co.uk founder Julieta Brandao worked with ‘Queen of Vintage’ Susan Crawford to develop the Coquette Vintage Cotton Yarn range. All the colours in the range mimic vintage shades. If you want even more choice of colours, check out knitshop.co.uk’s Cotton 4ply Mercerised Yarn. This knits to the same tension as Coquette and comes in a choice of pinks, Bordeaux Red and Chocolate Brown.

A unique idea in contrasting colours.
Which colours would you choose?

 

The Ruffled Cardigan pattern was published in Knit magazine earlier this year. Other patterns for Coquette yarn feature in Susan Crawford’s A Stitch In Time 2 vintage knitting pattern book, available from our bookshop.

Links to this blog:

Amethyst Coquette Vintage Cotton Yarn: http://www.knitshop.co.uk/coquette-vintage-cotton/2779-amethyst-coquette.html

Aquamarine Coquette Vintage Cotton Yarn: http://www.knitshop.co.uk/coquette-vintage-cotton/2767-aquamarine-coquette.html

Bordeaux Red Cotton 4ply Mercerised Yarn: http://www.knitshop.co.uk/4ply-cotton-mercerised/1926-bordeaux-cotton-4ply.html

Chocolate Brown Cotton 4ply Mercerised Yarn: http://www.knitshop.co.uk/4ply-cotton-mercerised/1935-brown-cotton-4ply.html

Cotton 4ply Mercerised Yarn: http://www.knitshop.co.uk/129-4ply-cotton-mercerised

Coquette Vintage Cotton Yarn: http://www.knitshop.co.uk/323-coquette-vintage-cotton

Flame Coquette Vintage Cotton Yarn: http://www.knitshop.co.uk/coquette-vintage-cotton/2764-flame-coquette.html

Old Lace Coquette Vintage Cotton Yarn: http://www.knitshop.co.uk/coquette-vintage-cotton/2802-old-lace-coquette.html

Ruffled Cardigan pattern: http://www.knitshop.co.uk/knitshop-pattern/3150-ruffled-cardigan.html

A Stitch In Time Volume 2: http://www.knitshop.co.uk/patterns-magazines-books/2141-a-stitch-in-time-2.html