Lana Grossa 02 Top Jumper Knitting Pattern

Lana Grossa 02 Top in Amoroso

What is Being Made

The Lana Grossa 02 Top in Amoroso is a knitted pullover sweater available in three sizes: 36/38, 40/42, and 44. This garment is designed as a fitted top with shaped sides and underarm increases, creating a tailored silhouette. The piece features a crew neckline and is constructed with careful attention to shaping at the shoulders and overarms for a professional finish.

Knitting Techniques Used

This top employs several intermediate to advanced knitting techniques:

• Bottom-up construction: The garment is worked from the cast-on edge upward, allowing for easy fitting adjustments during the knitting process.
• Worked flat: The main body pieces are knitted on straight needles using flat knitting, which is then seamed together.
• Worked in the round: A circular needle is used for certain sections of the construction.
• Seamed construction: Individual pieces are knitted separately and then sewn together for a finished appearance.
• Full-fashion shaping: Increases and decreases are worked one stitch in from the edges, creating a professional, tailored look with decorative increase lines visible on the finished garment.
• Lace elements: The feather-and-fan pattern adds an openwork decorative detail to the design.

Stitches Used

The Lana Grossa 02 Top utilizes fundamental and decorative knitting stitches:

• Stockinette stitch (St st): The primary stitch throughout the garment, created by knitting on right-side rows and purling on wrong-side rows, producing a smooth, classic fabric.
• Reverse stockinette stitch (Rev St st): Used strategically for selvage edges and textural contrast, created by purling on right-side rows and knitting on wrong-side rows.
• Feather-and-fan pattern: A lace pattern worked over a multiple of 11 stitches, creating an openwork design with decorative eyelet details. This pattern is worked according to a provided chart and adds visual interest to the top.
• Two-stitch selvage: A neat edge finish created by slipping stitches purlwise with yarn in back on right-side rows and purling on wrong-side rows, ensuring clean seaming edges.

Materials and Specifications

The Lana Grossa 02 Top in Amoroso is crafted with high-quality blended yarn and appropriate needles:

• Yarn: Lana Grossa Amoroso in the colorway Light Grey/Jeans/Violet Blue/Grey (col 4). The yarn composition is 23% pure wool, 23% silk, 23% cotton, 23% acrylic, and 8% polyamide, creating a luxurious blend with excellent drape and durability. The yarn provides 400 meters per 100 grams.
• Yardage required: 200 grams (for size 36/38) or 300 grams (for sizes 40/42 and 44).
• Needles: Size 6 mm straight needles for flat knitting and a size 6 mm circular needle, 40 cm long, for sections worked in the round.

Construction Details

The top begins with a cast-on for the back piece, establishing stockinette stitch with reverse stockinette selvage edges. After working the initial pattern rows, full-fashion increases are worked at each side every 20 rows for shaping. The underarm section features consecutive increases over six right-side rows to create the armhole depth. Shoulder shaping is accomplished through strategic bind-offs at each edge, with the final stitches bound off to complete the neckline. The front is worked identically to the back through the shoulder and overarm shaping stage, ensuring proper fit and symmetry.