Noble Tee Top Knitting Pattern

Noble Tee Top Knitting Pattern

Design by Melissa Leapman for Cascade Yarns, the Noble Tee Top is an intermediate-level knitted top featuring an intentionally oversized silhouette. This downloadable PDF pattern (DK623) provides comprehensive instructions for creating a sophisticated cotton knit garment suitable for knitters with foundational skills and experience working with stitch patterns.

What Is Being Made

The Noble Tee Top is a knitted pullover sweater designed as a relaxed, oversized fit top. The pattern is available in five sizes—Small, Medium, Large, 1X, and 2X—with finished bust measurements ranging from 54 inches to 70 inches and lengths from 23 inches to 25 inches. The design is intentionally oversized, so knitters are advised to knit the size they would normally wear rather than sizing up.

Techniques and Construction

This intermediate pattern employs several essential knitting techniques to create the finished garment. The construction begins with a ribbed cuff worked in K1P1 (knit one, purl one) ribbing for 1½ inches, which provides elasticity and a finished edge. The main body features the signature Exaggerated Eyelet pattern, a decorative stitch pattern that creates openwork details throughout the garment. Neck shaping is accomplished through strategic bind-offs and decreases, with the pattern instructing knitters to work both sides simultaneously using separate balls of yarn—a technique that ensures symmetrical shaping on both shoulders.

Stitches Used

The Noble Tee Top utilizes fundamental knitting stitches combined into a specialized pattern:

• K1P1 Ribbing: Alternating knit and purl stitches that create vertical columns and provide stretch
• Exaggerated Eyelet Pattern: A repeating 8-row pattern (multiple of 9 stitches plus 5) that incorporates knit stitches, purl stitches, yarn overs, and decreases to create decorative openwork
• Yarn Overs: Double yarn overs worked on Row 1 of the pattern, which are then expanded into two stitches on Row 2 by working [k1, p1] into each double yarn over
• Decreases: SSK (slip, slip, knit) and K2tog (knit 2 together) decreases used both within the Exaggerated Eyelet pattern and for neck shaping
• Stockinette Stitch: Alternating knit and purl rows (Rows 3-8 of the pattern repeat) that create the smooth fabric base

Materials and Gauge

The Noble Tee Top is designed to be worked in Cascade Yarns Noble Cotton, a 100% long staple mercerized cotton yarn. Yardage requirements vary by size, ranging from 6 skeins (Small) to 9 skeins (1X and 2X), with each skein providing 220 yards and weighing 3.5 ounces. The pattern calls for US 6 (4.0 mm) knitting needles, though knitters should select the needle size necessary to achieve the specified gauge of 18 stitches and 24 rows equaling 4 inches in the Exaggerated Eyelet pattern when blocked. Additional materials include stitch markers for tracking pattern repeats and a yarn needle for weaving in ends.

The mercerized cotton fiber choice provides a crisp drape and breathable fabric ideal for a lightweight top, while the long staple construction ensures durability and a refined appearance in the finished garment.