09 Jumpover in Lana Grossa Silkhair - Downloadable PDF

Lana Grossa Silkhair Design 09 – Jumpover Knitting Pattern (Filati Journal 61)

This free downloadable PDF from Lana Grossa presents Design 09 from Filati Journal 61, a beautifully delicate pullover sweater — referred to as a "Jumpover" — knitted in the luxurious Lana Grossa Silkhair yarn. The design is available in two sizes: Size 36–40 and Size 42/44, making it accessible to a range of knitters looking for an elegant, lightweight layering piece. The finished garment features a classic silhouette with set-in sleeves, ribbed cuffs, and carefully shaped necklines on both the front and back, resulting in a refined, wearable sweater with an airy, halo-like texture.

What Is Being Made

The pattern produces a long-sleeved pullover sweater with a shaped armhole, distinct front and back neckline shaping, and set-in sleeves. The back features a higher neckline than the front, which has a deeper, more open neck shaping. The overall aesthetic is soft and feminine, enhanced by the characteristic halo of the mohair-silk yarn blend. The sweater is worked flat in separate pieces — back, front, and sleeves — and then seamed together.

Materials Used

• Yarn: Lana Grossa Silkhair — a luxurious blend of 70% super-kid mohair and 30% silk, with a yardage of 210 metres per 25 g ball. The colourway specified is Powder Pink (colour 86). The pattern requires 325 g for Size 36–40 and 350 g for Size 42/44.
• Important note: The yarn is worked with 3 strands held together throughout the entire project, which creates a fuller, denser fabric while retaining the characteristic softness and halo of the Silkhair fibre.
• Needles: Size 5 mm and size 6 mm straight knitting needles are required, along with a size 5 mm circular needle, 50 cm long, for finishing the neckline.
• Crochet Hook: A size 5 mm crochet hook is also listed among the materials, likely used for finishing or edging details.

Techniques Used

• Holding multiple strands together: Working with 3 strands of Lana Grossa Silkhair held as one is a key technique throughout this pattern. This approach is common when working with very fine or laceweight yarns to build up the fabric weight and add warmth without sacrificing the yarn's signature drape and softness.
• Flat knitting: All pieces are worked back and forth in rows, not in the round, requiring seaming at the end.
• Selvage stitches: Every row begins by slipping the first stitch knitwise and ends by knitting the last stitch. This creates a neat, even edge that makes seaming cleaner and more professional.
• Armhole shaping: Stitches are bound off in a stepped sequence at the beginning of rows — for example, binding off a set number of stitches over several rows — to create the curved armhole typical of a set-in sleeve construction.
• Shoulder and neck shaping: The back neck is shaped by binding off a central group of stitches and then working each side separately, with additional decreases at the neck edge. The front neck shaping begins earlier and involves a more gradual bind-off sequence across multiple rows.
• Sleeve shaping: Sleeves begin on size 5 mm needles with a ribbed cuff section, then stitches are increased evenly across a wrong-side row before switching to size 6 mm needles for the body of the sleeve.
• Increasing evenly across a row: A key technique used in the sleeve construction, where 18 stitches are added evenly across the last wrong-side row of the cuff to transition smoothly into the larger stitch count of the sleeve body.
• Circular needle for neckline: