How to Make the Condado Cardigan into a Pullover

** The Condado pattern is 50% off for a few more days until March 31, 2024!

Although I’m loving wearing my new Condado cardigan now that the weather is finally getting a little warmer, I’m also dreaming of re-making it as a pullover!

Here is how you can easily change this design into a pullover, with its spectacular (and not nearly as hard as it looks) lace panel on both the front and the back:

1. After making the Back Panel, make a Front Panel the same way, but with one fewer pattern reps vertically. This should result in a Front Panel that is about 3″ shorter than the back, which will create some neck shaping.
2. Skip the Right Front section, and start with the Right Side Panel, setting it up as follows: pick up along the Back Panel as written, cast on 17 sts, then pick up 17 fewer stitches along the Front Panel than you did on the back. The total stitch count after picking up/casting on should match what is in the pattern for the Right Side Panel section. Now work the rest of that section and the Right Sleeve as written.
3. Skip the Left Front section, and to set up the Left Side Panel, start at the bottom of the Front Panel and pick up the same number you did for the front on the right side, cast on 17 sts, and pick up along the Back Panel. Work the rest of the Left Side Panel and Sleeve as written.
4. For the finishing, the sleeve cuff is the same, and the Lower Edge instructions will give you guidance about how many single crochets to work along the panels and the stockinette stitch portions. For the neck edging, you could work in single crochet as at the hem, or if you want to use the stitch pattern that was used for the cuffs and front edge/collar on the cardigan, you could adapt the collar instructions included in the pattern, using the numbers listed for working sc along the Back Panel for both front and back, and adding 11 sc at the stockinette edges at each side of the front neck. The pattern includes some shaping at the edges of the back neck to make the edging lie flat, and I think it would probably need a little extra shaping at the corners of the front neck as well.

That’s all there is to it! I’m planning to make my pullover in Remix Light, which would be a slightly more rustic-looking substitute for Tillie and is another one of my favorite spring yarns. Special thanks to my colleague Nadia for making a lovely swatch in Remix Light, proving out its suitability for this pattern!

I’ll update this post when/if I get around to making my pullover version, but as I write this we have just a couple days left in the special introductory discount of 50% off the pattern, so I wanted to get these instructions out there for anyone who might want to take advantage of it! Find the pattern here.