Lana Grossa 13 Pullover Jumper Knitting Pattern

Lana Grossa 13 Pullover in Tre Seta

What is Being Made

This is a pullover sweater featuring a luxurious blend of natural and specialty fibers. The garment showcases a Fair Isle stranded colorwork pattern worked in Black as the primary color, with accents in Sand and Off White. The design combines elegant ribbed cuffs and waistband with a sophisticated patterned yoke section, creating a refined knitwear piece suitable for various occasions.

Techniques Used

The Lana Grossa 13 Pullover employs multiple knitting techniques to achieve its finished construction:

• Bottom-Up Construction: The sweater is knitted from the bottom upward, beginning with the sleeves and body sections before joining them at the yoke.
• Worked Flat and In-the-Round: The body and sleeves are initially worked flat on straight needles in rows, then transitioned to circular needles for seamless yoke shaping and colorwork.
• Fair Isle Stranded Colorwork: The yoke features a Fair Isle pattern worked according to a provided chart, using the stranded technique where unused yarn colors are carried across the back of the work. The pattern repeat is worked multiple times across the width of the garment.
• Seamed Construction: Sleeves and body sections are seamed together using mattress stitch or similar techniques for a professional finish.
• Full-Fashion Shaping: Sleeve increases are worked using full-fashion increases positioned one stitch in from the edges for a tailored appearance.

Stitches Used

The pullover incorporates fundamental knitting stitches executed with precision:

• Stockinette Stitch (St st): The primary stitch throughout most of the garment, created by knitting all stitches on right-side rows and purling all stitches on wrong-side rows when working flat, or knitting all rounds when working in-the-round.
• Ribbed Pattern (K2, P2): A two-by-two rib used for the cuffs and waistband to create elasticity and a fitted edge. This pattern alternates two knit stitches with two purl stitches across the row.
• Selvage Stitches: Edge stitches slipped knitwise on the first stitch and knitted on the last stitch of every row to create neat, finished edges suitable for seaming.
• Decreases: Purl two together (p2tog) decreases are used to shape the sleeve cap before joining to the yoke.

Materials and Specifications

The Lana Grossa 13 Pullover is worked in Lana Grossa Tre Seta, a premium yarn blend composed of 40% superwash Merino wool, 35% silk, 20% baby alpaca, and 5% viscose. This luxurious fiber combination provides softness, breathability, and a subtle sheen characteristic of silk and alpaca blends.

Yarn Quantities: The pattern requires 450 grams of Tre Seta in Black (color 16) for the main body and sleeves, 100 grams in Sand (color 10) for colorwork accents, and 50 grams in Off White (color 9) for additional pattern detail. The yarn is supplied at 130 meters per 50-gram ball.

Needles Required: The project uses size 4 mm and 4.5 mm straight needles for the initial flat sections, along with size 4.5 mm circular needles in three lengths—100 cm, 80 cm, and 60 cm—to accommodate the increasing stitch counts as the yoke is worked. A size 4 mm circular needle measuring 50 cm long is also needed for ribbed edging.

Construction Details

The sleeves begin with a cast-on of 50 stitches worked on size 4 mm needles in a two-by-two rib pattern, establishing selvage stitches at each edge. After the ribbed cuff measures 6 centimeters, the needle size is increased to 4.5 mm and stockinette stitch is worked for 2 centimeters before introducing the Fair Isle colorwork chart. The sleeves are shaped with full-fashion increases positioned one stitch in from the edges, beginning on the seventh row after the ribbed section and continuing at regular intervals to reach a final sleeve cap of 76 stitches. The sleeve length measures 42 centimeters from