Noro Wavy Stripes Pullover Jumper Knitting Pattern

Noro Wavy Stripes Pullover

What Is Being Made

The Noro Wavy Stripes Pullover is a knitted sweater featuring a distinctive wavy striped pattern created through a combination of chevron lace and color blocking. This pullover is designed as a bottom-up construction with seamed side seams, available in three sizes: Small/Medium, Large/1X, and 2X/3X. The finished garment offers bust measurements of 40 (48, 56) inches and a length of 22 (23, 24) inches, with upper arm width of approximately 15 (16, 17) inches when slightly stretched.

Techniques Used

This pullover employs several key knitting techniques to achieve its elegant wavy appearance:

• Bottom-up construction: The sweater is knitted from the lower edge upward, allowing for easy fitting adjustments and a traditional assembly method.
• Worked flat: All pieces are created on straight needles using flat knitting (back and forth rows) rather than in the round, requiring seaming to join the pieces together.
• Lace patterning: Decorative lace elements are incorporated throughout the design, creating the characteristic wavy visual effect.
• Striping: The design features a repeating color stripe pattern that cycles through three distinct yarn colors, creating visual interest and depth.
• Seamed construction: Individual knitted pieces are sewn together using seaming techniques to create the finished garment.

Stitches Used

The Noro Wavy Stripes Pullover utilizes fundamental knitting stitches combined in a structured pattern:

• Knit stitch: The basic stitch used throughout the pattern for creating stockinette sections and establishing fabric structure.
• Purl stitch: Used in alternating rows to create texture and as part of the chevron pattern construction.
• Yarn over (yo): A decorative increase stitch that creates the openwork lace elements characteristic of the wavy stripe design. Yarn overs are worked by placing yarn over the right-hand needle to form new stitches.
• Purl two together (p2tog): A left-leaning decrease stitch used to shape the chevron pattern and create the wavy contours.
• Slip stitch: Stitches are passed from the left-hand needle to the right-hand needle without being worked, used for various shaping and edge techniques.
• Slip, slip, knit (ssk): A decrease technique where two stitches are slipped knitwise individually, then inserted through and knitted together to decrease one stitch.

Chevron Pattern Details

The core of this design is the Chevron pattern, which repeats over a multiple of 18 stitches. The pattern works over 6 rows:

• Rows 1 and 3 (right side): Knit all stitches.
• Rows 2 and 4: Purl all stitches.
• Row 5: The pattern row that creates the wavy effect—*[P2tog] 3 times, [k1, yo] 6 times, [p2tog] 3 times; repeat from * to end.
• Row 6: Purl all stitches.

This 6-row repeat creates the distinctive chevron or wavy stripe visual when combined with the color changes.

Stripe Pattern Sequence

The color striping adds significant visual interest to the pullover. The stripe pattern repeats over 36 rows, cycling through the three Noro Tokonatsu yarn colors: 18 rows in shade #101 (B), 6 rows in shade #8 (C), 6 rows in shade #5 (A), and 6 rows in shade #8 (C) again. The pattern is designed so that all sizes begin with different colors to ensure each size finishes with shade #101 (B) at the appropriate point.

Materials and Tools

The Noro Wavy Stripes Pullover is worked using Noro Tokonatsu yarn, a premium Japanese yarn known for its rich colors and quality. The yarn requirements vary by size:

• 3 (4, 5) x 50g skeins of Noro Tokonatsu in shade #5 (