Cardigan with snood Scarf Juliette in Adriafil Charme - Downloadable PDF

Free Knitting Pattern: Juliette Cardigan with Snood Scarf in Adriafil Charme – Downloadable PDF

This free downloadable knitting pattern from Adriafil guides you through creating the Juliette, a cosy and stylish super chunky cardigan complete with a coordinating snood scarf. Worked in Adriafil Charme yarn, this design is perfect for knitters who want a fast, satisfying project with a luxurious finish. The combination of a relaxed-fit cardigan and a matching snood makes this a versatile cold-weather set that works beautifully as a wardrobe staple or a handmade gift.

About the Adriafil Charme Yarn

The pattern is specifically designed for Adriafil Charme, a super chunky weight yarn that knits up quickly and produces a beautifully soft, voluminous fabric. Super chunky yarns are ideal for beginners and experienced knitters alike, as the large gauge means projects grow fast on the needles and the stitch definition is easy to follow. The pattern references a light green colourway as the cast-on colour, giving the finished garment a fresh, contemporary feel.

What You Will Make

• Juliette Cardigan: A relaxed, cosy cardigan featuring a shaped body, set-in sleeves, front panels, and a carefully constructed neckline. The pattern is written across three sizes, making it adaptable for a range of fits.
• Snood Scarf: A coordinating snood that pairs with the cardigan, adding an extra layer of warmth and a polished, put-together look to the finished set.

Techniques Used

This pattern introduces and relies on several key knitting techniques that are fundamental to garment construction:

• Garter Stitch: The primary stitch pattern used throughout the cardigan and snood. Garter stitch is created by knitting every row, producing a ridged, stretchy, and reversible fabric that is wonderfully suited to chunky yarns.
• Shaping with increases and decreases: The right and left front panels are shaped using a combination of cast-on increases at the edges and single stitch decreases at the side seams, giving the cardigan its fitted silhouette.
• Armhole shaping: Worked by binding off stitches in a structured sequence to create a clean, tailored armhole opening on the back and both front panels.
• Neckline shaping: The neckline is formed by a series of stepped bind-offs, working decreases over multiple rows to achieve a smooth, curved neckline edge. Specific bind-off sequences include combinations of 2-stitch and 1-stitch reductions worked every two rows and every four rows.
• Sleeve shaping: Sleeves are worked flat and shaped with regular increases at both edges to create a tapered sleeve cap suited to the set-in armhole.
• Mirrored construction: The left and right fronts are worked as mirror images of each other, with all shaping reversed — an important technique in symmetrical garment knitting.
• Seaming: As a flat-knit garment, the individual pieces — back, right front, left front, and sleeves — are seamed together upon completion.

Stitches Used

• Garter Stitch – knit every row on both right-side and wrong-side rows, forming the characteristic horizontal ridges
• Bind-off sequences – used for armhole, shoulder, and neckline shaping throughout all garment pieces
• Cast-on increases – extra stitches are cast onto the needle at the end of rows to build the front panel width in a structured, alternating sequence

Cardigan Construction Details

The right front panel begins with just 2 stitches cast on in light green, with stitches added at the end of every two rows in an alternating pattern — combinations of 2-stitch and 1-stitch increases — until the panel reaches the required stitch count for the chosen size (