Valley Yarns Sabine Pullover Knitting Pattern

Valley Yarns Sabine Pullover

What Is Being Made

The Sabine Pullover is a V-neck pullover sweater designed by Ashwini Jambhekar. This intermediate-level knitting pattern creates a sophisticated garment suitable for both professional work settings and dressy after-work occasions. The pullover features a refined silhouette with finished bust circumference options ranging from 32.5 inches to 53 inches, accommodating six different sizes.

Design Features and Construction

The Sabine Pullover showcases an elegant combination of decorative and structural elements. A lace and cable pattern featuring leaf motifs travels up the center front of the garment, forming the edges of the V-neckline. Alongside this central design, a smaller slip-stitch cable runs parallel and curves under the armholes, creating mock-princess seams that add visual interest and tailored shaping to the sweater.

Knitting Techniques Used

This pattern employs three primary knitting techniques:

• Cable knitting: The design incorporates cable stitches worked over varying stitch counts, including C2F (cable 2 front), C2B (cable 2 back), C1/2F (cable 1 over 2 front), and C1/2B (cable 1 over 2 back) techniques that create twisted, rope-like textures.
• Lace knitting: Yarn-over decreases and increases are used throughout the leaf stitch pattern to create openwork details that add elegance and visual movement to the front panel.
• Seamed construction: The pullover is assembled using seaming techniques, with the individual pieces joined together to create the finished garment.

Stitches and Stitch Patterns

The Sabine Pullover features two primary decorative stitch patterns:

• Gull Stitch: Worked over 6 stitches in a 4-row repeat, this stitch combines knit stitches with slip stitches and cable techniques. The pattern alternates between right-side rows featuring slip stitches worked with yarn in back and cable crosses (C1/2B and C1/2F), creating a textured, dimensional effect approximately 1 inch wide.
• Leaf Stitch: A more complex pattern worked over 11 stitches in a 12-row repeat, the Leaf Stitch combines knit, purl, yarn-over, decrease, and cable stitches to create an organic leaf-like motif. This stitch pattern is approximately 2 inches wide and forms the central design element of the sweater front.

The body of the sweater is worked in Reverse Stockinette stitch, which creates a smooth, recessed background that allows the decorative cable and lace patterns to stand out prominently.

Materials and Gauge

The Sabine Pullover is knitted with Valley Yarns Colrain, a blend of 50% merino wool and 50% tencel, which provides both warmth and drape. The yarn is supplied in 50-gram skeins with 109 yards per skein. The pattern requires 8 to 14 skeins depending on the finished size selected, with the size 37.5-inch bust shown in the color Grey Olive.

Two needle sizes are required for this project: US 7 (4.50mm) needles for the main fabric and US 6 (4.00mm) needles for ribbing or other edgings. The gauge after blocking is 17 stitches and 28 rows over 4 inches when working Reverse Stockinette stitch with the larger needle size.

Difficulty Level

This pattern is rated as intermediate difficulty, making it suitable for knitters with experience in basic techniques who are ready to tackle cable and lace work. The combination of cable crosses, yarn-over decreases, and stitch pattern integration requires attention to detail and familiarity with reading complex stitch charts.