Lana Grossa Pullover Jumper Knitting Pattern

Lana Grossa Pullover in Più Bella

What is Being Made

The Lana Grossa Pullover in Più Bella is an intermediate-level knitted sweater featuring a classic pullover construction with set-in sleeves and a ribbed neckband. This design showcases a two-color Fair Isle pattern, combining Off White and Mint colorways for visual interest and sophisticated styling.

Techniques Used

This pullover employs several key knitting techniques appropriate for intermediate crafters:

• Fair Isle Technique: The sweater features charted Fair Isle patterning, which involves carrying yarn not in use loosely across the wrong side of the work to create intricate color designs. Charts 1 and 2 guide the Fair Isle work, with row numbers indicated on the chart edges to distinguish right-side rows from wrong-side rows.
• Seamless Construction Elements: The design uses a circular needle for the neckband, allowing for seamless ribbing around the neck opening.
• Blocking and Finishing: Pieces are pinned to measurements and blocked before assembly, ensuring proper fit and shape. Shoulder seams are sewn together, and the neckband is picked up and worked in the round.
• Shaping Techniques: The pattern includes strategic increases for sleeve cap shaping and decreases for neck shaping, requiring careful attention to stitch counts and row placement.

Stitches Used

The Lana Grossa Pullover in Più Bella uses a limited but effective stitch repertoire:

• Ribbed Pattern (K1, P1): Used for the cuffs and neckband to create elastic, fitted edges that hug the body. This alternating knit and purl pattern is worked on smaller needles to create the characteristic texture and stretch.
• Stockinette Stitch (St st): The primary fabric stitch, worked as knit on right-side rows and purl on wrong-side rows. This creates a smooth, classic sweater fabric that serves as the foundation for the Fair Isle colorwork.
• Selvage Stitches: Knit on every row at the first and last stitch of each piece, these edge stitches create clean, finished edges that are easier to seam together during finishing.

Materials and Gauge

The Lana Grossa Pullover in Più Bella is crafted from Lana Grossa Più Bella yarn, a luxurious blend containing 59% baby alpaca, 20% polyamide, 15% cashmere, and 6% Merino wool. This fiber composition creates a soft, warm, and durable garment with excellent drape and breathability. The yarn is supplied at 100 meters per 25 grams.

Yardage requirements vary by size: the smaller size (36/38) requires 150 grams of Off White and 125 grams of Mint, while the larger size (40/42) requires 175 grams of Off White and 150 grams of Mint.

The pattern calls for size 3.5 mm and 6 mm knitting needles, with a 40 cm long size 3.5 mm circular needle for the neckband. The needle size progression—smaller needles for ribbed edges and larger needles for the main fabric—is essential for achieving proper gauge and fabric elasticity in the finished sweater.

Pattern Details by Component

Back and Front Pieces: Both the back and front are worked in stockinette stitch with Fair Isle charted patterns (Charts 1 and 2). The front features neck shaping that begins when the piece measures 56 to 57 centimeters from the cast-on edge, depending on size. The neck shaping involves binding off the center 30 stitches, then decreasing 3 stitches at each neck edge once, 2 stitches twice, and 1 stitch once to create a comfortable neckline opening.

Sleeves: Sleeves are cast on with 40 stitches using size 3.5 mm needles and Off White yarn, then worked in K1, P1 ribbing for 6 centimeters. After a final wrong-side row where 14 stitches are increased evenly across (bringing the total to 54 stitches), the work transitions to size 6 mm needles and Chart 2 for the Fair Isle pattern. Sleeve increases are worked at both ends of the piece: increases occur on the 7th row, then every 6th row 6