Taverna

Taverna is a light-weight, relaxed-fit garment, intended for warmer-weather days and summer evenings. It features bands of stranded colourwork around the front, neck, waistband and cuffs. The design was inspired by a holiday in Crete, where I imagined this garment as an elegant and versatile addition to my summer wardrobe.

CONSTRUCTION

The garment is worked top down, starting with the back. Once armscye depth is reached for the back piece, stitches for each front piece are picked up at the shoulders and worked top-down. Once complete, front and back pieces are joined at the underarm and worked flat in stockinette until desired body length is reached. Stitches are then picked up around the front opening so that stranded colourwork can be worked in the round, around the front and waist. On the final round of the colourwork, the front pieces are seamed together.

Stitches for each sleeve are picked up around the armhole and sleeves are worked in the round to three-quarter length, with a band of colourwork around each cuff. The neckhole, waistband and sleeves are finished with a folded stockinette edge.

SIZING GUIDE

This garment is graded into sizes 1 (2, 3, 4, 5) (6, 7, 8, 9, 10). Recommended positive ease is 4+” / 10+ cm at the chest circumference.

Finished Garment Chest Circumference:

32.75 (38, 40.5, 45.75, 50.75) (53.5, 58.5, 61.25, 66.25, 68.75)“

82 (95, 101.5, 114.5, 127) (133.5, 146.5, 153, 165.5, 172) cm

GAUGE

Using 3.25 mm / US size 3 needles, or needle size required to meet gauge, 28 stitches over 34 rounds in both stockinette stitch and colourwork, wet blocked, creates a 4x4” / 10x10 cm square.

YARN

The sample has been worked using Kokon Yarn’s Kokon Bleu fingering weight yarn (100% Superwash Merino wool; 400 m / 437 yds per 100 g) with the cream speckle colourway as the Main Colour and the semi-solid navy colourway as the Contrast Colour.

YARDAGE (includes ~10% excess)

Main Colour:

954 (1048, 1097, 1185, 1276) (1335, 1470, 1509, 1614, 1666) metres

1044 (1146, 1200, 1297, 1396) (1461, 1608, 1650, 1766, 1822) yards

238 (262, 274, 296, 319) (334, 367, 377, 403, 416) grams

Contrast Colour:

219 (230, 236, 247, 259) (269, 292, 298, 309, 315) metres

239 (252, 258, 270, 283) (295, 319, 326, 338, 344) yards

55 (57, 59, 62, 65) (67, 73, 74, 77, 79) grams

TOOLS & NOTIONS

2x 3.25 mm / US size 3 circular needles (to work body and sleeves; varying cable lengths would be helpful)

8 markers (2 of these need to be removable)

scrap yarn

tapestry needle to weave in ends

~2.75 mm / C-2 crochet hook (or 1-2 sizes smaller than gauge needles)

SKILLS REQUIRED

-long tail cast on

-working flat

-working left and right make one increases

-German short row shaping

-picking up stitches

-reading colourwork charts

-working stranded colourwork with two colours in the round

-working a repeating pattern of decreases

-decreasing using K2tog and SSK

-standard bind off