Noro Horizontal Cable Cardi Cardigan Knitting Pattern

Noro Horizontal Cable Cardi

What Is Being Made

The Noro Horizontal Cable Cardi is an experienced-level knitted cardigan featuring a sophisticated horizontal cable pattern. This seamed garment is worked flat on straight needles and finished with button closures. The cardigan is sized for one size with a finished bust measurement of 45 inches (114 centimeters), a length of 36½ inches (77.5 centimeters), and upper arm width of 13 inches (33 centimeters).

Techniques Used

This cardigan employs several intermediate to advanced knitting techniques that create visual interest and structure:

• Cable work: Horizontal cables run across the garment, created using a cable needle to cross stitches over one another for a twisted, textured effect
• Stripes: The design incorporates striped colorwork using the variegated qualities of the yarn
• Seamed construction: Pieces are knitted separately and then sewn together using selvage stitches along the edges for clean, professional seams
• Worked flat: The cardigan is constructed using flat knitting on straight needles rather than in the round, allowing for easier shaping and button band placement
• Stitch increases and decreases: Techniques such as make one increases and slip, slip, knit decreases are used for shaping the garment
• Picked-up stitches: Stitches are picked up and knitted along edges to create button bands and finishing details

Stitches Used

The Noro Horizontal Cable Cardi utilizes a range of fundamental and decorative knitting stitches:

• Knit and purl stitches: The foundation stitches that create the base fabric and texture
• Cable stitches: Stitches crossed over each other using a cable needle to create the signature horizontal cable pattern
• Make one (knitwise and purlwise): Increases worked by lifting the strand between stitches and knitting or purling into the back loop
• Slip, slip, knit/purl (ssk/ssp): Decreases that create a neat, left-leaning reduction in stitch count
• Slip stitches: Stitches passed from the left needle to the right needle without being worked, used for selvage edges and chart techniques
• Chart-based stitches: The pattern uses charted instructions with "no stitch" spaces indicating areas where stitches have been decreased or not yet made

Materials

The Noro Horizontal Cable Cardi requires specific materials for successful completion:

• Yarn: 3 balls of Noro Ito in colorway #15, each weighing 200 grams, providing the variegated color and texture essential to the design
• Needles: One pair of size US 6 (4mm) needles for ribbing and finishing, one pair of size US 8 (5mm) needles for the main fabric, and one size US 6 (4mm) circular needle measuring 40 inches (100 centimeters) long for picking up stitches
• Notions: A cable needle for working cable stitches, clip-on stitch markers for tracking pattern repeats and shaping points, and six ¾-inch (19mm) buttons for the cardigan closure

Pattern Notes

This pattern is designed for experienced knitters comfortable with cable techniques, chart reading, and garment assembly. The editor recommends using LYKKE needles for best results. Knitters should be familiar with working from charts, managing multiple stitch types simultaneously, and seaming knitted pieces together with invisible seams for a polished finished garment.