Alisei Pullover in Adriafil Navy - Downloadable PDF

Alisei Pullover Knitting Pattern in Adriafil Navy – Free Downloadable PDF

The Alisei Pullover is a classic knitted pullover (jumper) designed for women, available as a free downloadable PDF from Adriafil. The pattern is worked in chunky weight yarn using Adriafil's Navy yarn range, producing a cosy, textured sweater with elegant stripe detailing. The design is offered in four sizes: XS, S, M, and L, making it accessible to a wide range of knitters.

What Is Being Made

This pattern produces a knitted pullover sweater with a structured body, shaped armholes, and a classic silhouette. The garment is constructed in separate pieces — a back and a front — which are seamed together upon completion. The design features a stripe section at the lower body that transitions into a solid stockinette fabric for the upper body and yoke, creating a visually interesting colour-blocked effect.

Yarn and Materials

The pattern calls exclusively for Adriafil Navy yarn, used in three distinct colourways to create the stripe and solid sections:

• Navy 40 (Color A): 2 balls for sizes XS and S; 3 balls for sizes M and L
• Navy 54 (Color B): 2 balls for all sizes
• Navy 44 (Color C): 7 balls for sizes XS and S; 8–9 balls for sizes M and L

The recommended needles are 7 mm straight needles and a 7 mm 60 cm circular needle, appropriate for chunky weight yarn and ensuring a comfortable, relaxed fabric with good stitch definition.

Techniques Used

The Alisei Pullover uses a combination of straightforward and intermediate knitting techniques, making it well-suited to confident beginner and intermediate knitters:

• Stripe pattern: The lower body is worked in a repeating stripe sequence using Colors A and B, requiring yarn changes at regular intervals.
• Stockinette stitch (stocking stitch): The upper body and yoke are worked entirely in stockinette stitch using Color C, creating a smooth, classic fabric.
• Armhole shaping: Stitches are bound off at the beginning of rows to create the initial armhole step, followed by a series of decreases worked inside the edge stitches.
• Waist shaping: Subtle side decreases are worked every 8 cm, twice on each side across all sizes, to give the pullover a gently fitted silhouette.
• Neckline shaping: The front piece diverges from the back during the final decrease rows, with the centre stitches bound off to create the neck opening.

Stitches Used

• Stockinette stitch (knit on right side, purl on wrong side): The primary stitch used throughout the upper body sections.
• Stripe pattern: A structured sequence of stripes alternating Colors A and B, worked in stockinette.
• Decreases – beginning of row: k2, k2tog — a right-leaning decrease worked two stitches in from the edge for a neat, internal shaping line.
• Decreases – end of row: slip the 4th stitch from end, k1, psso, k2 — a left-leaning decrease mirroring the beginning-of-row decrease for symmetrical shaping.
• Cast on and bind off: Standard cast-on and bind-off methods are used throughout for starting pieces and closing armhole and shoulder edges.

Construction and Sizing Details

The back piece is cast on with 57, 61, 65, or 69 stitches depending on the chosen size. The stripe pattern is worked first, with waist shaping decreases incorporated simultaneously. Once the stripe section is complete, the work continues in stockinette with Color C. Armhole shaping begins when the piece measures 45, 47, 48, or 49 cm respectively.