Daisy Lace Top

Daisy Lace Top by Alice Tang

What is Being Made

The Daisy Lace Top is a knitted pullover sweater featuring a distinctive textured lace pattern. This design is created by Alice Tang as an independent designer project within the sweaters and jumpers collection. The garment is constructed with separate front and back panels that are mirror images of one another, allowing the wearer to reverse the sweater and wear the directional slant in either direction for styling versatility.

Knitting Techniques Used

This intermediate-level knitting project employs several advanced shaping and stitch manipulation techniques. The construction method involves short-row shaping using the wrap and turn (w&t) method to create slanted edges on both the front and back panels. The front panel uses a decreasing slant achieved by working k2tog at the beginning of rows while adding a make-one increase at the end of each row. The back panel reverses this technique, beginning each row with a make-one increase and ending with a k2tog decrease. This strategic shaping creates the directional slant that characterizes the design.

Stitches Used

The Daisy Lace Top features the following key stitches:

• Daisy Stitch: A textured lace stitch worked over a multiple of 6 stitches plus 1. This stitch is created by wrapping yarn three times around the needle for five consecutive stitches, then using a cable needle to pick up loops from each of these triple-wrapped stitches. The yarn is wrapped around the cable needle stitches in a specific sequence—wrapping to the left, bringing forward, and wrapping again—before returning the stitches to the right needle. This creates the characteristic daisy-like texture.
• Knit Stitch (K): The foundational stitch used throughout the garment
• Knit Two Together (K2tog): A right-leaning decrease used in the slanting rows
• Make One (M1): An increase stitch used to create the directional slant
• Slip Stitch Purlwise (sl st p-wise): Used in the wrap and turn technique for short-row shaping

Materials

The Daisy Lace Top is designed to be worked in 4-ply yarn weight, which provides the appropriate drape and stitch definition for both the textured daisy pattern and the delicate lace effects. The pattern is available as a downloadable PDF format. The cast-on begins with 139 stitches for the smallest size, with subsequent sizes requiring 157, 175, and 193 stitches respectively, indicating a range of finished garment sizes to accommodate different measurements.