Hudson Pullover in Adriafil Melodia - Downloadable PDF

Hudson Pullover in Adriafil Melodia – Free Knitting Pattern Summary

The Hudson Pullover is a beautifully textured chunky-weight knitted sweater designed for adults, available as a free downloadable PDF. The pattern is produced using Adriafil Melodia yarn and features a sophisticated combination of ribbing, twisted knit fabric, and intricate cable work, making it an excellent project for confident intermediate to advanced knitters who want to explore classic knit construction with decorative stitch detailing.

What Is Being Made

The Hudson is a pullover sweater — a garment knitted in the round and flat sections to create a finished, wearable jumper. It is sized to fit sizes 44, 46, and 48, making it suitable for a range of adult fits. The design combines structural ribbing at the edges with a richly textured body fabric and a striking central cable panel, giving the finished garment a timeless, artisan aesthetic that works well in the warm, neutral beige colourway (no. 70) specified in the pattern.

Materials Required

• Yarn: Adriafil Melodia in beige no. 70 — approximately 350 g required
• Knitting needles: Size 7 mm straight or circular knitting needles
• Double pointed auxiliary needle — essential for working the cable crossings
• Tapestry needle — for seaming and weaving in ends

Adriafil Melodia is a chunky-weight yarn, which means the Hudson Pullover knits up quickly and produces a warm, substantial fabric ideal for cooler seasons. The chunky gauge also allows the cable and texture stitches to read with impressive clarity and definition.

Techniques Used

• Flat knitting — working back and forth in rows to construct the body panels
• Cable knitting — using an auxiliary needle to cross stitches both leftwise and rightwise, creating the signature rope and twist effects of the double cable panel
• Yarn overs (yo) — used within the cable pattern to maintain stitch count after decreases and to add a decorative eyelet detail framing the cable
• Decreases — including k2tog (knit two together) and slip 1, k1, pass slipped stitch over (psso), both used symmetrically within the cable panel to shape the cable edges
• Increases — worked as part of the cable crossing rows to build the cable structure
• Seaming — using a tapestry needle to join finished panels into the completed pullover

Stitches Used

• k2/p2 Rib Stitch — a classic two-by-two ribbing pattern used at the cuffs, hem, and neckline to provide stretch and a neat, professional finish
• Knit in Back Loop (Twisted Knit Stitch) — a textured background stitch worked by inserting the needle into the back loop of each knit stitch on right-side rows and purling on wrong-side rows; this creates a subtly twisted, firm fabric with excellent stitch definition
• Double Cable Stitch — worked over 17 stitches across a repeating six-row sequence; this complex cable incorporates yarn overs, symmetrical decreases, and both leftwise (front cross) and rightwise (back cross) four-stitch cable crossings to produce a bold, intertwining rope cable as the centrepiece of the garment

Pattern Detail: The Double Cable Panel

The double cable stitch is the defining feature of the Hudson Pullover and is worth understanding in detail. Worked over 17 stitches, it uses a six-row repeat in which wrong-side rows are always purled. On right-side rows, yarn overs and matching decreases frame the cable on each edge, keeping the stitch count constant while adding a delicate lace-like border. The cable crossings themselves alternate between leftwise crosses — where two