Ripple T-Shirt in Viking Of Norway - UK-2319-6 - Downloadable PDF

Ripple T-Shirt in Viking Garn – Pattern Summary (UK-2319-6)

About This Design

The Ripple T-Shirt is an elegant, lightweight knitted top designed by Turid Stapnes and published by Viking of Norway under pattern number UK-2319-6. The garment is a classic short-sleeved T-shirt silhouette with a refined raglan yoke construction, making it a versatile wardrobe piece suitable for warmer seasons. The two-colour design — worked primarily in crisp white with beige accents — gives the finished garment a clean, contemporary look. This is a downloadable PDF pattern rated at an intermediate difficulty level, making it well suited to knitters who are comfortable working in the round and managing raglan shaping.

What Is Being Made

The finished project is a knitted T-shirt (categorised as a sweater/jumper) featuring:

• A raglan yoke construction worked seamlessly in the round
• Short sleeves with a sleeve length ranging from 10 cm to 14 cm depending on size
• A neat ribbed neckband in beige
• Six sizes ranging from x/small to xx/large, with chest measurements of 87 – 93 – 104 – 115 – 120 – 125 cm (approximately 34¼ to 49¼ inches)
• A whole length of 57 – 62 cm (approximately 22¼ to 24½ inches)

Yarn and Materials

This pattern is designed specifically for Viking Bamboo yarn, a 6-ply weight yarn composed of 50% bamboo and 50% cotton, sold in 50 g skeins. The bamboo-cotton blend gives the fabric a beautiful drape, a subtle sheen, and excellent breathability — qualities that make it particularly well suited to a T-shirt style garment intended for spring and summer wear.

• White no. 600: 6 – 7 – 7 – 8 – 8 – 9 skeins (depending on size)
• Beige no. 607: 2 – 2 – 2 – 3 – 3 – 3 skeins (depending on size)

The recommended needles are 3.5 mm for the main body and yoke, and 2.5 mm for the neckband. The pattern is worked primarily on circular or double-pointed needles to facilitate seamless construction in the round.

Tension

The stated tension is 22 stitches in stocking stitch on 3.5 mm needles measuring approximately 10 cm (4 inches) across. As with all garment knitting, achieving the correct tension swatch before casting on is essential to ensure the finished T-shirt matches the intended measurements.

Techniques Used

This pattern employs several key knitting techniques that intermediate knitters will find both instructive and enjoyable:

• Seamless raglan yoke construction: The body and sleeves are joined onto the same needle and worked together in the round, with all four raglan join points shaped simultaneously. This creates smooth, diagonal raglan lines characteristic of this classic style.
• Raglan decreasing: Decreases are worked at all four raglan markers on every second round. The specific decrease method used is slip 1, k1, psso (a left-leaning decrease) before each marker and k2tog (a right-leaning decrease) after each marker, resulting in 8 stitches decreased per decrease round and creating neat, mirrored shaping lines.
• Working back and forth: Once the front neckline stitches are placed on a stitch holder, the knitter transitions from working in the round to working flat (back and forth in rows) to shape the neckline opening on the back piece.
• Neckline shaping: Stitches are cast off at the beginning of rows to create a shaped, curved neckline — first casting off 3 stitches once, then 2 stitches at the beginning