The Havgus cardigan in undyed merino, folded flat on a pale wooden surface beside a sprig of greenery — Size 86, laid flat · 41 cm shoulder to hem

A pale knitted blanket filling the frame, stitch by stitch — The stitch, at actual size

A half-finished knitted jumper with the needles still in it — Front bands, still on the needles

A child in blue walking away across a wide green lawn — Size 110, third winter

Knitted in Fjaltring · piece 04 of twelve

Havgus Cardigan

745 krincluding 25% VAT

A plain round-neck cardigan in undyed merino lambswool, knitted at a tight gauge so it holds its shape through two or three children. Horn buttons, doubled elbows, 4 cm hem and 3 cm cuffs to let down.

Colour · all undyed or plant-dyed

Undyed oat

Soft clay

Pale blue

Ripe plum

In stock in all five sizes · 31 cardigans on the shelf

Not sure of the size? Open the measurement tables →

Free delivery in Denmark on this piece · posted the next Thursday · 60 days to send it back, swaps free for a year.

Three rooms and eleven weeks

A Havgus passes three pairs of hands before it is folded. None of them is in another country.

A ball of yarn resting on a striped knitted blanket

The yarn

19.5 micron lambswool from two flocks near Ringkøbing, scoured without chlorine and spun two-ply at a small mill in Herning. Nothing is superwash-treated.

Where it comes from →

The knitting

Body and sleeves on one machine, bands and buttonholes by hand. Oluf finishes four cardigans in a working day and will not do five; the fifth is always the one that comes back.

Who makes them →

Three knitted jumpers hanging from wooden hangers on a line

The wash

Every piece is washed once at 30 °C and dried flat on the line behind the house before it is measured again. The size on the label is the size after that wash.

Washing it at home →

What is actually
in the parcel

The Klitmøller booties in lambswool, worn on a baby’s feet on a wool rug

A child’s hand in a knitted sleeve resting on a striped blanket

A Dagny pinafore hanging from a wooden hanger beside a white blouse

Fjordby pullovers hanging in a row against a pale wall

The cardigan folded in unbleached tissue, a spare horn button, a metre of the same yarn for mending, a card printed with the measurements of your exact size in centimetres, and the return label. No plastic, no polybag, no scented card. The whole parcel weighs about 380 g and fits through a Danish letterbox.

See the other eleven pieces

A child in blue tumbling into a heap of fallen leaves

Questions people send about this cardigan

Fit

What are the measurements of each size?

Chest, flat and unstretched: 62 is 27 cm, 74 is 30 cm, 86 is 32 cm, 98 is 35 cm, 110 is 38 cm. Shoulder to hem: 32, 36, 41, 45, 49 cm. Sleeve from the shoulder seam: 21, 25, 29, 33, 37 cm. The full table, with the woven pieces too, is on the fit page.

How much room should I leave for growing?

One size. Between two sizes, always the larger. The cuffs turn back twice and the hem has 4 cm folded inside, so a size 98 bought for a two-year-old looks right for three winters rather than one. Children who are long in the body rather than broad should go up as well.

Wool and washing

Will it itch against a baby’s neck?

This one is 19.5 micron, which is below the threshold most people feel as prickle. The neckband is knitted in the same yarn rather than a ribbed edging, so there is no seam at the back of the neck. If it is still wrong for your child, send it back within 60 days.

Can it go in the machine?

Yes: wool programme, 30 °C, wool detergent, no softener, spin at 600 or less, dry flat. It has already been washed once here, so it will not shrink further. A cardigan worn daily needs washing far less often than cotton — air it overnight and most marks go.

Buying and sending back

What does delivery cost on this piece?

Nothing inside Denmark, because the cardigan is over 600 kr; 1–2 working days from the Thursday post. Sweden, Norway and Germany 85 kr, 3–5 days. Rest of the EU 120 kr, 4–8 days. Everything leaves Fjaltring on a Thursday afternoon.

If a button goes, or a moth finds it?

Post it to Trandumvej 6 and Sigrid mends it free, for as long as the cardigan is in a family we sold it to — including the second and third child. Moth holes up to about a 2 kr coin are re-knitted so the repair does not read from a metre away.