Girl’s Sweater with Textured Pattern and Flowers in Schachenmayr Sun City - S6941 - Downloadable PDF

Girl's Sweater with Textured Pattern and Flowers – Schachenmayr Sun City S6941

This free downloadable knitting pattern (pattern number S6941) from Schachenmayr produces a charming girl's pullover sweater featuring a structured textured stitch pattern combined with decorative crocheted or embroidered flowers. The design is worked in three sizes — 92/98, 110/116, and 128/134 — making it suitable for girls across a range of ages and proportions. The sweater is knitted in the round and in flat panels, with a classic raglan shaping that gives the garment a neat, fitted silhouette from shoulder to hem.

What Is Being Made

The finished project is a girl's pullover sweater with long sleeves, a ribbed hem and cuffs, and a rounded neckline. The body features an all-over textured stitch pattern worked in a 10-stitch repeat, while the front panel incorporates three smooth stocking stitch panels that serve as the background for decorative floral motifs. The flowers add a playful, feminine detail that makes this sweater stand out from a standard knitted pullover. The colour scheme combines a deep marine (navy) blue main colour with bright contrast accents in mandarine (orange) and cyclam (cyclamen pink), giving the garment a bold, modern look.

Construction and Shaping

The sweater is constructed in separate flat pieces — a back panel, a front panel, and two sleeves — which are then seamed together. Each piece begins with a contrast-colour cast-on row before transitioning into the ribbed cuff or hem, and then into the main textured pattern in the marine colour.

• Back panel: Cast on 63 (73/83) stitches in cyclam, work one wrong-side purl row, then switch to marine and work ribbing for 3 cm. Continue in the textured pattern, working 5 (6/7) repeats of the 10-stitch motif. Raglan armhole shaping begins at 18 (22/28) cm height with a cast-off of 2 stitches on each side, followed by alternating decreases every 2nd and 4th row. The back neckline is shaped at 32 (38/46) cm by casting off the central 19 (21/23) stitches, with further decreases on each side. Remaining shoulder stitches are cast off at 34 (40/48) cm.
• Front panel: Worked identically to the back, but with three smooth stocking stitch areas distributed across the textured pattern to accommodate the decorative flower motifs. The front neckline shaping begins earlier — at 29 (34/42) cm — with the central 11 (13/15) stitches cast off, followed by stepped decreases every 2nd row (3, 2, then 1 stitch on each side) to create a rounded neckline.
• Sleeves: Cast on 33 (33/43) stitches in mandarine, work one wrong-side purl row, then continue in marine with ribbing for 3 cm. The textured pattern is then worked over 2 (2/3) repeats of the 10-stitch motif, with sleeve increases worked at regular intervals to shape the sleeve from cuff to underarm. Raglan shaping at the sleeve cap mirrors the body shaping.

Techniques Used

This pattern draws on a range of knitting and finishing techniques that make it suitable for knitters with some experience beyond the absolute beginner level:

• Raglan shaping — a classic construction method where decreases are worked symmetrically along four raglan lines, simultaneously shaping the armholes of the body and the sleeve caps for a smooth, diagonal seam line.
• Textured stitch pattern — a repeating 10-stitch motif worked from a chart, creating surface interest and dimension in the main body of the sweater.
• Ribbing (Bündchenmuster) — a stretchy knit-purl rib used at the hem, cuffs, and neckband to provide elasticity and a neat, professional finish.
• Raglan decreases — worked using a psso (pass slipped stitch over) method at the beginning of right-side rows, and a k2tog (knit two together) method 3 stit