Noro Nuptse Knitting Pattern

Noro Nuptse Knitted Pullover

What is Being Made

The Noro Nuptse is an intermediate-level knitted pullover designed by the Noro Design Team. This garment is sized for X-Small through 2X, with finished bust measurements ranging from 43 to 56 inches (109 to 143 centimeters) and length measurements from 22 to 25 inches (56 to 63.5 centimeters). The pullover features an upper arm circumference of 13 to 17 inches (33 to 43 centimeters), making it a fitted, wearable garment suitable for various body sizes.

Knitting Techniques Used

This pattern employs several fundamental and intermediate knitting techniques to create visual interest and structure. Lace work is a primary design element, featuring an intricate lace panel worked over 17 stitches that repeats across a 12-row sequence. The lace panel incorporates strategic yarn overs and decreases to create openwork patterns characteristic of delicate knitwear.

Decreasing techniques are essential to the lace construction. The pattern uses knit two together (k2tog) and slip, slip, knit (SSK) decreases, which are paired with yarn overs to maintain stitch count while creating the lace's characteristic holes and directional slants. The slip, slip, knit decrease involves slipping two stitches knitwise individually to the right-hand needle, then inserting the left-hand needle through their fronts from left to right and knitting them together as one stitch.

Stockinette stitch serves as the base fabric, with the pattern worked at a gauge of 20 stitches and 30 rows over 4 inches (10 centimeters) using size US 6/4mm needles. The garment is constructed with careful attention to gauge, as the pattern explicitly instructs knitters to take time to check their gauge before beginning.

Stitches Used

• Knit stitch (K) – The fundamental stitch forming the base fabric
• Purl stitch (P) – Used primarily on wrong-side rows to create stockinette stitch
• Knit two together (K2tog) – A right-leaning decrease used throughout the lace panel
• Slip, slip, knit (SSK) – A left-leaning decrease that pairs with k2tog for balanced lace decreases
• Yarn over (YO) – Creates the openwork holes characteristic of the lace panel
• Slip stitch (sl 1) – Used in the decrease sequence and for edge work
• Work even – Sections worked without increasing or decreasing to maintain established stitch count

Materials and Tools

The Noro Nuptse is worked using Noro Silk Garden Sock Solo yarn in colorway #TW10. The pattern requires 4 to 6 skeins of 100 grams each, depending on the size being knitted, providing approximately 400 to 600 grams of yarn total. This yarn choice suggests a lightweight, variegated sock-weight yarn suitable for creating delicate lace work with beautiful color variation.

Essential tools include one pair of size US 6/4mm needles or the size required to obtain the specified gauge, and locking stitch markers to track pattern repeats and construction points throughout the knitting process. The use of locking markers is particularly helpful when working complex lace panels with multiple stitch decreases and yarn overs.