Yvette Top in Adriafil Nature and Gala - Downloadable PDF

Yvette Top Knitting Pattern – Free Downloadable PDF by Adriafil

The Yvette Top is a stylish, contemporary knitted top designed using two signature Adriafil yarns: Nature and Galá. This free downloadable PDF pattern offers knitters an engaging project that combines contrasting yarn weights and textures to create a garment with visual interest and a relaxed, wearable silhouette. The pattern is worked in multiple sizes, making it accessible to a range of knitters who want to add a handmade top to their wardrobe.

What Is Being Made

The finished project is a knitted top featuring a shaped back, a shaped front with a lower neckline, armhole finishing, and distinctive shoulder extensions. The design uses two different Adriafil yarns — Nature and Galá — which are worked together to create contrast in both texture and weight. The top is constructed in separate front and back pieces that are seamed at the sides, with finishing details added around the armholes and neckline.

Construction and Shaping Techniques

The Yvette Top is knitted flat in two main pieces — the back and the front — which are then joined using a straightforward seaming method. This construction approach is ideal for knitters who are comfortable with basic garment shaping and finishing.

Back Shaping

• The back piece incorporates waist shaping, worked by decreasing and then increasing stitches at both edges every 12 rows to create a fitted silhouette.
• Armhole shaping begins when the work measures 44 cm, with bind-offs worked at both edges every 2 rows in a stepped sequence: 2 stitches bound off 1–2–2 times, followed by 1 stitch bound off 2–2–4 times (varying by size).
• Neckline shaping on the back begins at 48–49–50 cm (depending on size), where the center 8–10–12 stitches are bound off and each half is finished separately. Neck edge decreases continue in a graduated sequence every 2 rows.

Front Shaping

• The front is worked identically to the back until the armhole shaping begins at 44 cm, using the same bind-off sequence.
• The front neckline is deeper and begins earlier, at 44–45–46 cm, with the center 10–12–14 stitches bound off first. The neck shaping then continues with a longer, more gradual decrease sequence — including multiple rounds of single-stitch decreases — to create a smooth, rounded neckline.

Finishing Details

The finishing of the Yvette Top is an important part of the design and involves both yarns in distinct roles:

• Side seams are sewn to join the front and back pieces.
• Using Adriafil Nature, stitches are picked up along each armhole (36–39–42 stitches depending on size) and a single row of 1x1 Ribbing is worked before binding off in pattern. This creates a neat, stretchy armhole edge.
• For the neckline and shoulder extensions, Adriafil Galá is used with a circular needle. Stitches are cast on for one shoulder extension (28 stitches), stitches are picked up along the front neck (54 stitches), additional stitches are cast on for the other shoulder extension (28 stitches), and further stitches are picked up along the back neck — creating a dramatic, wide neckline treatment that is a defining design feature of the Yvette Top.

Stitches Used

• 1x1 Ribbing – used for the armhole edging and neckline/shoulder finishing; this classic stitch alternates knit and purl stitches to create a stretchy, structured border
• Stockinette or main body stitch – implied for the body of the garment, standard in top