Ola’s Tundra is a top-down yoked colourwork sweater inspired by a piece of music called Tundra by Ola Gjeilo. The music of Tundra is Gjeilo’s homage to the Hardangervidda mountain plateau from his homeland Norway.

I wanted to create a sense of the barren and sparse landscape of the tundra that inspired Gjeilo’s music whilst also capturing the beautiful and atmospheric music he composed. With this in mind, the colourwork patterns are deliberately sparse themselves, creating patterns from small clusters of stitches worked on alternate rounds. The repeating individual stitches mimic the two-note ostinatos that continue throughout the composition and the flowing shapes created through the larger combined clusters of stitches reflect the more lyrical vocals.

SAMPLE
The wearer is 5’10” with a chest circumference of 37”. The sample has been worked in size L, giving the wearer ~7.5” / 19cm of positive ease.
Yoke depth has been increased by 1” / 2.5 cm for personal preference.

SIZING GUIDE
This garment is graded into sizes XS (S, M, L, XL) (2XL, 3XL, 4XL, 5XL). Recommended positive ease is 3-10” / 7.5-25cm at the chest circumference.

Finished Garment Chest Circumference:
35.5 (38.5, 41.5, 44.5, 50.25) (56.25, 59.25, 62.25, 65.25)“
89 (96.5, 103.5, 111, 126) (140.5, 148, 155.5, 163) cm

GAUGE
Using 3.25mm / US size 3 needles, or needle size required to meet gauge, 27 stitches over 36 rounds in stockinette stitch, blocked, creates a 4x4”/10x10cm square.

YARN
The sample has been created using Black Elephant Yarn’s Soft Sock base (85% Merino / 15% Nylon; 360m/100g) using colourway Tale of Woe as the main colour and Laguna as the contrast colour.

YARDAGE (includes ~10% excess)
MC: 929 (979, 1049, 1166, 1260) (1385, 1434, 1574, 1624) metres / 1016 (1070, 1147, 1275, 1379) (1515, 1569, 1722, 1777) yards / 258 (272, 291, 324, 350) (385, 398, 437, 451) grams.
CC: 225 (237, 254, 289, 312) (346, 361, 399, 411) metres / 246 (259, 277, 316, 342) (379, 395, 437, 450) yards / 62 (66, 70, 80, 87) (96, 100, 111, 114) grams.

TOOLS & NOTIONS
3.25mm / US size 3 circular needles (a range of cable lengths would be helpful to suit yoke, body and sleeve circumferences)
2.75mm / US size 2 circular needles (a range of cable lengths would be helpful to suit neckband, waistband and cuff circumferences)
1 marker
scrap yarn
tapestry needle (to weave in ends)

SKILLS REQUIRED
-long tail cast on
-joining in the round
-working twisted ribbing
-working a pattern of increases in stockinette (left and right lifted increases)
-reading colourwork charts
-working stranded colourwork with two colours
-separating yoke into body and sleeves
-cable cast on
-working mirrored decreases (knit two together and slip, slip, knit)
-standard bind off

ERRATA
Final instruction of Separating for Body and Sleeves should read “turn to RS and K x sts to end of rnd.