Tremont Hooded Cardigan

Unusual plaited cables add interest to this raglan cardigan, edging the fronts and running up the sleeves to the top of the shaped hood. The reverse side of the cables is also attractive, and is displayed when the hood is worn down, at the transition from fronts to hood.

Notes

Body is worked flat, without waist shaping. Sleeves are worked in the round from the bottom up to the armholes. After body and sleeves are joined, yoke is worked flat, with seamless raglan shaping. Top of hood is shaped with decreases, then with method similar to working a seamless saddle shoulder, in which stitches from the left and right sides of the hood are worked together with stitches at each end of center hood rows. Top of hood joined with 3-Needle Bind-Off; underarms grafted or joined with 3-Needle Bind Off.

Instructions for cable stitch patterns are given in chart form.

**Buttons (optional): **Rather than creating buttonholes in the cabled bands, the holes left by cable crosses may be used as buttonholes.