Leonora Blouse

Leonora is a beautiful and colorful blouse that combines lace pattern and stranded colorwork, and the combination of different textures/yarns also makes it something special.

The blouse features a beautiful lace-patterned yoke in Bourette Silk, while the body and sleeves are worked in stranded colorwork in Fluffy Alpaca Mix. The blouse is knitted top down.

The blouse is worked in the round and begins at the neckline. First, the rib edge is worked, after which the lace pattern begins. The lace pattern is worked according to chart with continuous increases. After the lace pattern, change to stranded colorwork, where raglan increases are worked down to the bottom of the armhole, where the work is divided into body and sleeves. The body continues in stranded colorwork and is finished with a narrow rib edge. The sleeves are then worked in stranded colorwork with continuous decreases along the underside of the sleeve and are also finished with a narrow rib edge.

We have also put together KITs for the Leonora Blouse, which you can find here.

Yarn:

Bourette Silk (360 m/100 g):

• 100 (100) 100 (100) 100 (100) g. (we used color 250)

Fluffy Alpaca Mix (400 m/100 g):

• Main Color A: 100 (200) 200 (200) 200 (200) g. (we used color 2)
• Contrast Color B: 20 (20) 20 (20) 20 (20) g. (we used color 216)
• Contrast Color C: 20 (20) 20 (20) 20 (20) g. (we used color 255)
• Contrast Color D: 20 (20) 20 (20) 20 (20) g. (we used color 250)
• Contrast Color E: 20 (20) 20 (20) 20 (20) g. (we used color 41)
• Contrast Color F: 20 (20) 20 (20) 20 (20) g. (we used color 48)

Sizes:

• A (B) C (D) E (F)
• Chest circumference: 97 (104) 114 (120) 130 (140) cm
• Length: 47 (48) 50 (51) 53 (55) cm

Gauge: 20 stitches x 24 rows in stranded colorwork = 10 x 10 cm

Recommended needles: Circular needle 4 mm + Circular needle 3 and 3.5 mm for rib edges