Plymouth Yarn Long Sleeve Tunic Jumper Knitting Pattern

Plymouth Yarn Long Sleeve Tunic Pattern No. 3469

What Is Being Made

This is a long sleeve tunic featuring the Miradores yarn by Plymouth Yarn. The tunic is designed as a pull-over garment with a sophisticated lace pattern detail and is available in four sizes: Small (to fit bust 29½-31½"), Medium (33½-35½"), Large (37½-39½"), and 1X (41½-43½"). The finished bust measurements range from 42" to 55½" depending on size, with a tunic length between 27½" and 29" and consistent sleeve length of 17" across all sizes.

Techniques Used

This pattern employs several key knitting techniques to create its finished design:

• Bottom-up construction: The garment is worked from the lower edge upward, allowing for easy fitting adjustments during the knitting process
• Worked flat: The main body and sleeves are knitted flat on straight needles rather than in the round, requiring seaming to join pieces together
• Seamed construction: Individual pieces (front, back, and sleeves) are knitted separately and then seamed together using a yarn needle
• Lace patterning: A 24-row lace pattern is incorporated into the body of the tunic, worked from a provided graph, creating an elegant textured design
• Armhole and shoulder shaping: Bind-offs and decreases are strategically placed to create proper garment fit at the armholes and shoulders

Stitches Used

The pattern utilizes fundamental knitting stitches combined to achieve the desired fabric texture and lace effects:

• Stockinette Stitch (st st): The primary stitch used throughout much of the garment, created by alternating knit rows on the right side with purl rows on the wrong side, producing a smooth, classic knit fabric
• Reverse Stockinette Stitch (rev st st): The inverse of stockinette, with purl rows on the right side and knit rows on the wrong side, used to create textural contrast, particularly in the ribbed cuff and pattern sections
• Lace pattern stitches: The 24-row pattern repeat incorporates increases and decreases (including Make One increases) to create the openwork lace design shown in the provided graph
• Ribbing: Created using reverse stockinette stitch at the lower edge to provide elasticity and structure

Materials and Tools

Yarn: Plymouth Yarn Miradores is the featured yarn for this project. The pattern requires 11 to 14 skeins of 50-gram weight depending on size, with the sample shown in color 36 Thyme. The yarn is worked to a gauge of 24 stitches and 30 rows over 4 inches in the lace pattern using US 5 needles.

Needles and Notions: The pattern calls for US Size 4 and US Size 5 knitting needles (straight needles for flat knitting), a set of US Size 4 double-pointed needles for ribbed sections, 2 stitch markers for tracking pattern repeats, a stitch holder for holding stitches during construction, and a yarn needle for seaming pieces together and weaving in ends.