Shirt in Schachenmayr Catania Color - S7365 - Downloadable PDF

Schachenmayr Catania Color Knitted Shirt – Pattern S7365 (Free Downloadable PDF)

This free downloadable knitting pattern, S7365, guides knitters through creating a lightweight, elegant knitted shirt featuring a beautiful all-over lace design. Published by Schachenmayr and worked in their popular Catania Color yarn, this top is a wonderful project for knitters who want to explore openwork lace construction in a wearable, flattering garment. The pattern is available in three sizes — 34/36, 38/40, and 42/44 — making it accessible to a range of body types.

What Is Being Made

The finished project is a pullover-style knitted shirt with a classic silhouette. It features a lace body worked in an eyelet repeat pattern, shaped armhole openings with neat picked-up borders, a folded neckline facing, and folded armhole facings for a clean, polished finish. The shirt is constructed in two flat pieces — a front and a back — which are then seamed at the shoulders and sides. The total finished height is 56 cm for sizes 34/36 and 38/40, and 61 cm for size 42/44.

Construction and Techniques

• Flat knitting in rows: Both the back and front pieces are worked flat, back and forth in rows, rather than in the round.
• Cable cast-on (Kreuzanschlag): The pattern specifies a crossed or cable cast-on method to begin both pieces, giving a firm, structured edge.
• Lace body (Ajourmuster): The main body of the shirt is worked in an openwork lace pattern charted over a 16-stitch repeat, plus edge stitches. Rows 1 through 32 are repeated throughout. Only right-side rows are charted; wrong-side rows are worked as the stitches appear, with yarn-overs purled.
• Armhole shaping: Armholes are shaped by binding off stitches at both sides — first 4 stitches, then 3 stitches, then 1 stitch in subsequent right-side rows — creating a smooth, gradual curve.
• Decreased edge stitches: After the main bind-offs, further armhole shaping is achieved using slip-stitch decreases (overcast decrease at row beginnings) and knit-two-together at row ends, maintaining the lace pattern cleanly up to the armhole edge.
• Neckline facing (Halsausschnittblende): Near the top of the piece, the knitter switches to stockinette stitch on smaller needles, working a short facing in the color-gradient section of the yarn. This facing is later folded to the inside and sewn down to create a neat, self-finished neckline.
• Armhole facings (Armausschnittblenden): Stitches are picked up along the center portion of the side edges and worked in stockinette on smaller needles, then bound off and folded inward, mirroring the neckline treatment for a tidy armhole finish.
• Seaming and finishing: Shoulder seams are closed at a width of 1 cm (sizes 34/36), 3 cm (38/40), or 5 cm (42/44). Side seams are sewn after the armhole facings are attached. Pieces are blocked by dampening and pinning to measurements before assembly.

Stitches Used

• Stockinette stitch (Glatt rechts): Knit on right-side rows, purl on wrong-side rows. Used for the neckline and armhole facings.
• Lace / Eyelet pattern (Ajourmuster): An openwork stitch pattern based on a 16-stitch repeat plus 1 stitch plus 2 selvedge stitches, worked from a chart. Yarn-overs create decorative eyelets paired with corresponding decreases to maintain stitch count.
• Selvedge stitches (Randmaschen): Edge stitches are worked at both sides of every row to facilitate neat seaming.