Hawai Top in Adriafil Biglia - Downloadable PDF

Hawai Top in Adriafil Biglia – Free Knitting Pattern Summary

The Hawai Top is a stylish, lightweight knitted top designed for sizes 40, 42, and 44. Published as a free downloadable PDF by Adriafil, this pattern produces a fitted, elegant garment featuring a shaped silhouette, decorative collar, and neat neckline finishing. The top is worked in pieces and seamed together, making it an approachable project for knitters with some experience in garment construction.

What Is Being Made

The pattern constructs a complete fitted top comprising several distinct pieces: a back panel, a front panel, a collar, and a back collar edge border. The finished garment features shaped sides with waist decreases and increases, armhole shaping, and a carefully finished neckline with a structured collar that combines two stitch textures. The collar wraps around the neckline and is finished with a ribbed edge for a polished look.

Materials Required

• Yarn: Adriafil Biglia in colour number 55 – a 4-ply weight yarn used doubled throughout the entire pattern. Approximately 250 g is required.
• Needles: 4.5 mm (no. 4½) knitting needles
• Notions: A tapestry needle for seaming and finishing

Using the yarn doubled is an important detail of this pattern — it creates a denser, more structured fabric from a fine 4-ply yarn, giving the top body and drape while keeping the finished garment relatively lightweight.

Tension / Gauge

The stated gauge is measured over 10 x 10 cm in knit stitch with the yarn used double on 4.5 mm needles. Achieving the correct gauge is essential for accurate sizing across the three available sizes.

Techniques Used

• Casting on for each individual piece
• Side shaping using decreases and increases spaced every 8 rows to create a fitted waist
• Armhole shaping by casting off stitches at the sides and working internal decreases every 2 rows
• Neckline shaping on both front and back, with centre stitches cast off and gradual decreases worked every 2 rows to create a smooth curve
• Picking up stitches along the back neckline, front armhole edges, and bottom edge of the collar border
• Seaming and making up using a tapestry needle to join all pieces, including attaching the collar border to the shoulder and sewing the collar around the neckline

Stitches Used

• Knit stitch (garter stitch / stocking stitch as referenced in the pattern as "knitted stitch") – used for the main body panels, the collar, and the collar border
• K2/P2 rib stitch – worked on the lower section of the collar to add elasticity and texture
• Elastic rib (closing) – used as a finishing stitch when picking up stitches along edges after assembly

Construction Details

Back Panel

The back begins with a border worked in the edge pattern, followed by the main body in knit stitch. Side shaping is introduced with decreases of 1 stitch at each end every 8 rows, 3 times, followed by corresponding increases of 1 stitch at each end every 8 rows, 3 times, creating a classic waist-in, hip-out silhouette. Armhole shaping begins when the work reaches the required length, with stitches cast off at the sides and further decreases worked inside the edge stitches every 2 rows. The back neckline is shaped by casting off the 18 (22–26) centre stitches, then working each shoulder section separately with additional decreases worked centrewise every 2 rows.