Berroco Harbour Cardigan Knitting Pattern

Berroco Harbour Cardigan

What is Being Made

The Berroco Harbour is a women's open-front cardigan designed with a contemporary silhouette and lace patterning throughout. This intermediate-level knitting project features cap sleeves and is available in six sizes ranging from X-Small to 2X, with finished bust measurements from 36 inches to 56 inches. The garment is intentionally designed with approximately 6 inches of positive ease, and the fronts do not meet, allowing for versatile sizing and styling options. The cardigan measures between 23 and 26 inches in length depending on size.

Techniques Used

This cardigan is constructed using several key knitting techniques that create both structure and visual interest. The garment is worked flat on straight needles for the body and cap sleeves, then seamed together to create finished edges. A bottom-up construction method is employed, meaning the body is knitted first from the lower edge upward before sleeves are added. Lace patterning is integrated throughout the design using charted stitch patterns, which adds an elegant, openwork quality to the finished piece. Shaping techniques include strategic increases worked into the charted pattern to create the cap sleeve cap, with increases occurring at regular intervals to achieve the proper sleeve cap depth and width.

Stitches and Stitch Patterns

The Harbour cardigan employs charted patterns as its primary stitch structure, with lace elements creating the distinctive visual design. Stockinette stitch is maintained at the edges (one stitch at each edge in stockinette stitch) to create clean selvage edges for seaming. The pattern includes make one knitwise increases (M1k) worked strategically into the charted patterns to shape the cap sleeves. Increases are worked on right-side rows at regular intervals—every 4th row for the initial increases, then every 6th row for subsequent shaping—allowing the lace pattern to integrate seamlessly with the garment shaping.

Materials and Yarn

The Harbour cardigan is designed to be knitted with Berroco Linus yarn in colorway #6840 Swallow. Yardage requirements range from 5 hanks for the smallest sizes (X-Small and Small) to 8 hanks for the largest size (2X), with each hank weighing 50 grams. The yarn is worked on size 8 (5.00 mm) straight knitting needles for the body and sleeves, and a 29-inch circular knitting needle in size 8 (5.00 mm) is also required. The pattern calls for 2 stitch markers to assist with pattern repeats and shaping placement. The recommended gauge is 20 stitches and 26 rows over 4 inches in charted pattern, making gauge checking essential before beginning the project to ensure proper fit and finished measurements.