Knit Pullover with Laced Neckline and Kangaroo Pocket
Introducing a comfortable and stylish knit pullover pattern featuring a distinctive laced neckline and a practical front kangaroo pocket, designed for effortless everyday wear.
When To Wear
This pullover is perfect for adding a touch of relaxed sophistication to various informal settings:
- Everyday Comfort: Ideal for casual outings, daily errands, or simply enjoying leisure at home due to its relaxed fit and soft knit fabric.
- Relaxed Gatherings: a chic choice for informal get-togethers with friends or family, offering both comfort and understated style.
- Layering Essential: Perfect for layering over other tops during cooler weather, providing warmth without sacrificing fashion.
Key Design Features
Silhouette: a relaxed-fit pullover with a straight, comfortable silhouette.
Neckline: Features a round neckline with a central slit, finished with eyelets and a decorative lacing detail.
Closure: Pullover style, with the neckline lacing serving as a decorative element rather than a functional closure.
Sleeves: Long, set-in sleeves provide full arm coverage.
Pockets: a spacious patch-style kangaroo pocket is integrated into the front, offering both functionality and a casual aesthetic.
Back: a straight back with a prominent center seam for subtle shaping and detail.
Hem: a clean, straight hemline that typically finishes at the hip.
Level Of Difficulty
Intermediate. This pattern requires experience working with knit fabrics, including stabilizing seams and stitching with an elastic or narrow zigzag stitch. Skills needed also include setting eyelets or grommets and constructing a lined kangaroo pocket.
Fabric Recommendations
Choose elastic knit fabrics that offer comfort and drape well:
- Sweatshirt fleece
- French terry
- Jersey knits
- Ponte di Roma
Additional Supplies
- Lining fabric for the kangaroo pocket and stabilizing bias tape
- Fusible interfacing for neckline facings
- Eyelets or grommets for neckline lacing
- Ribbon or fabric strip for neckline lacing, approximately 120 cm long and 0.75 cm wide when finished
Cutter's Must
- From knit fabric:
- 1. Front - 1 pc on fold
- 2. Back - 2 pcs
- 3. Sleeve - 2 pcs
- 4. Pocket - 1 pc on fold
- 5. Front neckline facing - 1 pc on fold
- 6. Back neckline facing - 1 pc on fold
- Trim strip for neckline drawstring, 120 cm long and 3 cm wide, including seam allowances;
- From lining fabric:
- 4. Pocket - 1 pc on fold
- From fusible interfacing: reinforce neckline facings with fusible interfacing.
Sewing Instructions
- Reinforce neckline facings with fusible interfacing (Heat-activated interfacings are ironed onto the wrong side of the piece with a hot iron).
- Cut pieces from bouclé knit fabric are stitched with a special elastic stitch or a narrow zigzag stitch.
- Bias BINDINGs made of lining fabric are caught in the shoulder seams from the shoulder edges of the front.
- Sew the center back seam. Press seam allowances open.
- On the front, sew darts, press dart depths downwards.
- Place pocket pieces from knit fabric and lining fabric right sides together and stitch edges around the perimeter, leaving an opening of approx. 5 cm in one of the seams. Trim seam allowances close to the stitching, diagonally at corners. Turn pocket right side out and press, sew the open section of the seam closed. Topstitch the pocket along the slanted edges, close to the edge. Pin the pocket to the front according to matching lines and topstitch close to the edge.
- On the front, make eyelets according to markings, placing a double-folded scrap of lining fabric on the wrong side.
- Cleanly stitch the trim strip for the tie to a width of 0.75 cm.
- Sew side and shoulder seams.
- Stitch shoulder edges on neckline facings. Place facing right sides together with the garment and stitch to the neckline edge. Trim seam allowances close to the stitching. Turn facing upwards and topstitch onto seam allowances close to the seam. Turn facing to the wrong side. Place the tie under the facing, pull the ends of the tie outwards through the eyelets. Topstitch the garment along the neckline according to markings.
- Sew sleeve seams. Press seam allowances open. Press the hem allowance of each sleeve to the wrong side and topstitch from the right side of the sleeve with a twin needle at a distance of 3 cm.
- Set in sleeves, easing at the cap.
- Press the hem allowance of the pullover to the wrong side and topstitch at a distance of 3 cm.
