Aurora Pullover in Adriafil Soffio Plus - Downloadable PDF

Aurora Pullover in Adriafil Soffio Plus – Free Knitting Pattern Summary

The Aurora Pullover is a beautifully textured women's knitted sweater designed to be worked in Adriafil Soffio Plus yarn. This free downloadable PDF pattern produces a classic raglan-sleeved pullover featuring an elegant combination of lace, cable, and rib stitch patterns. The design is available in three sizes — 44, 46, and 48 — making it accessible to a range of knitters looking for a sophisticated yet wearable everyday garment.

What Is Being Made

The finished project is a raglan pullover sweater with a structured body, shaped sides, set-in raglan sleeves, and a neckline finished with ribbing. The garment is knitted flat in separate pieces — a back, a front, and two sleeves — which are then seamed together using a tapestry needle. The front panel features a striking central cable panel worked over 18 stitches, giving the Aurora Pullover a refined, eye-catching focal point. The body panels are worked in complementary zigzag lace stitch patterns on either side of the central design elements, creating a light, airy texture that contrasts beautifully with the dense cable.

Design Details and Construction

The back and front are both cast on with 94 (100–106) stitches depending on size, and the construction includes thoughtful shaping throughout. Side seams are decreased once every 20 rows twice for a subtle waist shaping, then increased once every 8 rows twice to restore the hip width, giving the Aurora Pullover a gently fitted silhouette. The raglan shaping begins after the body reaches 31 (33–35) cm from the border, with a clean cast-off of 3 stitches at each end before working decorative raglan decreases. These decreases are worked as lace-style decreases — using yarn-overs, k3tog, and slip-knit-pass techniques — so the raglan seam line itself becomes an attractive design feature rather than a plain decrease line.

The front differs from the back in that the 18 centre stitches are worked as a cable stitch throughout the body. The neckline shaping begins when the work measures 47 (50–53) cm from the border, with the centre stitches cast off and each shoulder worked separately, with further neckline decreases worked every 2 rows.

The sleeves are cast on with 40 (44–48) stitches and worked with a matching border before the main stitch pattern begins. The pattern distinguishes between a right sleeve and a left sleeve, suggesting mirrored stitch placement for a symmetrical finished garment.

Techniques Used

• Raglan shaping with decorative lace-style decrease lines on both right and left sides
• Cable crossing worked over 18 stitches using an auxiliary needle, crossing 12 stitches leftwise every 16 rows
• Side seam shaping — waist decreases and hip increases worked at regular row intervals
• Neckline shaping with graduated cast-offs worked every 2 rows
• Lace patterning using yarn-overs (yo), slip-knit-pass (sl1, k2tog, psso), and k3tog decreases
• Flat knitting with seaming using a tapestry needle
• Reading and following a stitch chart for Zigzag Stitch A and Zigzag Stitch B

Stitches Used

• Elastic rib — used for the border at the cast-on edge and for finishing the neckline
• K3/P1 rib stitch — worked in columns as a structural rib pattern
• Zigzag Stitch A and Zigzag Stitch B — mirrored lace-style zigzag patterns worked from a chart, forming the main body fabric on either side of the central panel
• Cable stitch — an 18-stitch cable panel featuring a 12-stitch leftwise cross worked on Row 9 of a 16-row repeat, using an auxiliary needle
• Knit stitch