Raglanpullover in Schachenmayr Sun City - 5471A/5471B

Raglanpullover in Schachenmayr Sun City – Pattern Summary (5471A / 5471B)

This downloadable PDF from Schachenmayr presents two coordinating raglan pullover designs — pattern references 5471A and 5471B — both knitted in the brand's Sun City yarn. The pattern is available as a free downloadable PDF and covers three sizes: 36/38, 40/42, and 44/46, making it suitable for a range of adult figures. Each pullover shares the same classic raglan construction but is distinguished by its individual colourway, giving knitters a choice between two finished looks from a single pattern document.

Design Overview

Pullover 5471A – Linen Colourway

The first design, 5471A, is worked primarily in a Linen shade as the main body colour, with contrasting White panels used along the raglan facings. The colour blocking is deliberate and structural — the outer edge stitches of the raglan borders are maintained in White while the central body mass is worked in Linen, creating a clean, graphic contrast at the shoulder seams. This colourway gives the finished pullover a fresh, natural aesthetic well suited to warm-weather or transitional-season wear.

Pullover 5471B – Salmon Colourway

The second design, 5471B, follows the same construction method but substitutes Salmon as the main body colour and Natur (natural/ecru) for the raglan border stitches. The warm, soft tones of this colourway give the garment a slightly more relaxed and summery feel. As with 5471A, the colour separation is maintained precisely at the raglan shaping lines, reinforcing the structural detail of the garment's silhouette.

Construction and Techniques

Both pullovers are built using a classic top-down or bottom-up raglan construction — a method beloved by knitters for producing smooth, seamless-style shoulder shaping without the need for complex set-in sleeve work. The raglan shaping is achieved through a series of paired decreases worked on every right-side (RS) row, creating the characteristic diagonal lines that run from the underarm to the neckline.

• Raglan shaping decreases: The pattern specifies working 5 stitches in the border colour, then a slip 1, k2tog, pass slipped stitch over (sl1, k2tog, psso) style decrease sequence — a double decrease that neatly removes two stitches at a time. These decreases are worked on both sides of the raglan line in every second row, repeated 2×2 times for size 36/38, 3×2 times for size 40/42, and 5×2 times for size 44/46.
• Raglan border stitches: The outer 5 stitches on each side of the raglan line are maintained in the contrast colour (White or Natur) throughout the shaping, while the remaining central stitches continue in the main body colour (Linen or Salmon). This two-colour border is a defining design feature of both garments.
• Increases (twisted make-one): Earlier in the body construction, stitches are increased using a twisted make-one from the cross thread (in German: 1 M rechts verschränkt aus dem Querfaden zunehmen). This technique lifts the horizontal bar between stitches and knits it through the back loop, producing a virtually invisible increase that avoids the hole typical of a standard yarn-over increase. These increases are placed at specific intervals — repeated 3 additional times every 10th row — to shape the body from a narrower cast-on to the full stitch count required before the raglan begins.
• Raglan border cast-on: At a height of 30 (32/34) cm, 2 stitches are cast on at each side to form the raglan facings, bringing the total stitch count to 86 (92/104) stitches before the decrease shaping begins.
• Two-colour intarsia technique: Because the raglan borders and the body are worked in different colours simultaneously, the pattern instructs knitters to use