Noro Lace Pattern Top Jumper Knitting Pattern

Noro Lace Pattern Top

What is Being Made

The Noro Lace Pattern Top is an experienced-level knitted sweater designed for a fitted, pullover style. This garment is available in six sizes ranging from Small through 2X, with finished bust measurements from 41 inches (104cm) to 52½ inches (133.5cm) and lengths varying from 24 inches (61cm) to 26¼ inches (67cm). The upper arm circumference ranges from 12 inches (30.5cm) to 16½ inches (42cm), accommodating a range of body types and fit preferences.

Techniques Used

This sweater is constructed using several key knitting techniques that define its construction method and finished appearance:

• Bottom-Up Construction: The garment is knitted from the lower edge upward, allowing for easy adjustments to length during the knitting process.
• Worked Flat: The pieces are knitted flat on straight needles rather than in the round, which requires seaming to join the front, back, and sleeve pieces together.
• Seamed Assembly: Selvage stitches are incorporated along the edges of each piece to facilitate clean, professional seaming when joining the components.
• Lace Pattern: The design features a lace stitch pattern worked over a multiple of 4 stitches, creating an open, decorative fabric that adds visual interest and breathability to the garment.
• Sloped Bind-Off: A specialized bind-off technique is used to shape the shoulders and neckline. This method involves slipping the last stitch of the row preceding the bind-off, then passing the first stitch over the second stitch on the left-hand needle before binding off remaining stitches in the regular manner, creating a gradual, professional slope.

Stitches Used

The Noro Lace Pattern Top employs fundamental knitting stitches and techniques combined to create its distinctive appearance:

• Knit and Purl Stitches: The foundation stitches that create the fabric structure and texture.
• Yarn Over: A stitch-increasing technique that creates the openings characteristic of lace patterns. The yarn is placed over the right-hand needle to form a new stitch and decorative eyelet.
• Slip, Slip, Knit/Purl (SSK/SSP): A decrease technique used to shape the garment. Two stitches are slipped knitwise or purlwise individually to the right-hand needle, then the left-hand needle is inserted through the fronts of these stitches from left to right and they are knitted or purled together, decreasing one stitch.
• Slip Stitch: A stitch passed from the left-hand needle to the right-hand needle as if to purl without working it, used for selvage edges and other applications.
• Lace Pattern Stitch: A multi-stitch repeat pattern that combines yarn overs and decreases to create the characteristic open lacework design.

Materials

The Noro Lace Pattern Top requires specific materials to achieve the intended gauge and finished appearance:

• Yarn: 4 to 6 skeins of Noro Taiyo in shade #25, depending on the size being knitted. This quantity range accommodates the variation needed across the six available sizes.
• Needles: One pair each of US size 7 (4.5mm) and US size 9 (5.5mm) straight needles, or the size required to obtain the specified gauge. Additionally, one circular needle each in US sizes 6 and 7 (4mm and 4.5mm), 24 inches (60cm) long, for ribbed edges and neckline finishing.
• Notions: Removable clip-on stitch markers are recommended for tracking pattern repeats and shaping points throughout the construction process.