Noro Cap-Sleeved Top Jumper Knitting Pattern

Noro Cap-Sleeved Top

What is Being Made

The Noro Cap-Sleeved Top is an intermediate-level knitted sweater featuring short cap sleeves and a fitted silhouette. This garment is worked from the bottom up using the seamed construction method, creating a classic, polished finish. The top is available in three sizes: Small (bust 39 inches/99 cm), Medium/Large (bust 46 inches/117 cm), and X-Large/2X-Large (bust 53 inches/134.5 cm), with corresponding lengths of 22¼ (22¾, 23¼) inches or 56.5 (57.5, 59) centimeters.

Techniques Used

This design employs several key knitting techniques to achieve its finished appearance:

• Bottom-up construction: The garment is knitted from the lower edge upward, allowing for straightforward shaping and fitting adjustments.
• Worked flat: The piece is created on straight needles or circular needles used in a flat manner, rather than in the round, enabling the use of seaming for assembly.
• Seamed construction: Individual pieces are knitted separately and then joined together using seaming techniques, which provides clean, professional edges and allows for precise garment shaping.
• Lace elements: Decorative lace patterning is incorporated throughout the design, adding visual interest and texture to the finished piece.

Stitches and Stitch Techniques

The pattern utilizes fundamental and intermediate knitting stitches and techniques, including:

• Knit and purl stitches: The foundation of the fabric construction, worked in various combinations to create the base structure and texture.
• Decreases: Accomplished through knit 2 together and purl 2 together methods to shape the garment and create lace motifs.
• Increases: Performed using knit in front and back of stitch and make one methods (both knitwise and purlwise variations) to add stitches where needed for shaping.
• Slip, slip, knit/purl: A decrease technique where two stitches are slipped knitwise or purlwise, then worked together, creating a subtle directional decrease.
• Selvage stitches: Edge stitches worked to facilitate easier seaming of the finished pieces.
• Stitch markers: Used to denote pattern repeats and shaping points throughout the knitting process.
• Chart-based lace patterns: The design includes charted lace sections with "no stitch" spaces indicating areas where stitches have been decreased or not yet created.

Materials

The Noro Cap-Sleeved Top requires the following materials for completion:

• Yarn: 2 (2, 2) x 200-gram balls of Noro Akari in colorway #10, providing approximately 400 grams of yarn total for all sizes.
• Needles: One size US 6/4mm circular needle, 32 inches/80 centimeters long (or size to obtain gauge) and one size US 8/5mm circular needle, 32 inches/80 centimeters long (or size to obtain gauge). Circular needles are used in flat knitting for this project.
• Notions: Stitch markers, stitch holders, and a cable needle for pattern work and garment assembly.

The pattern recommends using LYKKE® needles for optimal results during construction.