Lace with Bobble Sweater - Jumper Knitting Pattern For Women in Debbie Bliss Dulcie by Debbie Bliss

Lace with Bobble Sweater – Knitting Pattern for Women by Debbie Bliss in Dulcie

This Lace with Bobble Sweater is an intermediate-level women's knitting pattern designed by Debbie Bliss, worked in her luxurious Debbie Bliss Dulcie chunky-weight yarn. The finished garment is a classic pullover sweater featuring an elegant combination of lace panels, decorative bobbles, and a moss stitch body, creating a richly textured design with a relaxed, contemporary silhouette. The pattern is available as a downloadable PDF and is exclusively available at lovecrafts.com.

What Is Being Made

The pattern produces a women's pullover sweater — sometimes called a jumper — with set-in or drop sleeves, constructed in separate pieces and then seamed together. It is sized to fit a wide range of chest measurements, making it accessible to many knitters:

• To fit chest: 81–86, 92–97, 102–107, 112–117, 122–127, 132–137, and 142–147 cm (32–34 to 56–58 in)
• Finished chest: 110–173 cm (43¼–68 in) with generous positive ease
• Length to shoulder: 57–60 cm (22½–23¾ in) depending on size
• Sleeve length: 47–48 cm (18½–19 in)

The sweater is worked in three main pieces — a back, a front, and two sleeves — all knitted flat and then joined with seams, giving the finished garment a neat, structured finish typical of classic knitwear design.

Design Features and Texture

What makes this sweater distinctive is its combination of three contrasting surface textures. The body is primarily worked in moss stitch (known as seed stitch in US terminology), which creates a dense, reversible fabric with a subtle pebbly texture that drapes beautifully in a chunky yarn. Set against this background is a 16-stitch lace panel, which adds delicate openwork detail and visual interest without making the garment overly airy or cold. The lace panel measures approximately 16 cm (6¼ in) in width.

The third element is the bobble panel, worked over 25 stitches, which introduces bold three-dimensional texture. The bobbles are created using the MB (Make Bobble) technique, a classic method in which multiple stitches are worked into a single stitch, turned, and worked back and forth before the extra stitches are passed over to leave a raised, rounded bobble on the fabric surface. Together, these three textures — the flat moss stitch ground, the open lace, and the sculptural bobbles — give the sweater a sophisticated, artisan quality.

Techniques Used

• Worked flat: All pieces are knitted back and forth in rows on straight needles, rather than in the round
• Seamed construction: The finished pieces are joined using seaming, producing clean edges and a structured garment shape
• Lace knitting: Openwork lace is formed using directional decreases and yarn-over increases to create decorative eyelets and flowing lines
• Bobble making (MB): A five-stitch bobble is worked by increasing into one stitch to create five, working short rows, and then casting off the extra stitches over the first to form a raised bobble
• Moss stitch (seed stitch): An alternating knit-and-purl pattern that offsets on every row, producing a firm, textured fabric
• Shaping: Standard knitting shaping techniques including decreases (k2tog, ssk) and increases are used to shape armholes, necklines, and sleeve tapers

Stitches Used

• Moss stitch — the primary body stitch, worked as alternating k1, p1 with the pattern offset on each row
• Lace panel stitches — including yfwd (yarn forward), yon (yarn over needle), yfrn (yarn forward and round needle), k