The Minerva Lace Pullover is a light, airy top combining feminine lace with a boxy shape.

Options are included for two different sweater lengths, semi-cropped (at the waist) or full (about mid-hip), and two different sleeves, ¾ or full! Plus, instructions are given to customise the exact length of the sleeves to your preference!

10 Sizes included. US and UK terminology versions available to download.
Now includes the Mini Minerva pattern plus patterns for a simpler mini sweater, hat and scarf to be used as holiday ornaments or strung together on a garland!

drop-shoulder construction, with no shaping in the body, crocheted from the top-down. The body is seamless.
All rows throughout the pattern are worked in alternating back and forth directions, even in the round, to maintain the stitch pattern.
Sleeves are crocheted separately, then sewn to the body, to maintain alignment with the stitch pattern of the body.

Skill Level: Advanced Beginner - Intermediate
Skills needed include sc, dc, hdc (UK: dc, tr, htc), working in the round, seaming.

Sizes (To fit bust circumference, cm/in):

XXS (63.5-71/25-28), XS (71-76/28-30), S (81-86/32-34), M (91.5-96.5/36-38), L (101.5-106.5/40-42), XL (111.5-117/44-46), 2XL (122-127/48-50),
3XL (132-137/52-54), 4XL (142-147/56-58),
5XL (152-158/60-62)

The sample sweater is shown in a size medium with 18.25cm/7.25 inches of positive ease.

Finished Measurements (after blocking)
Finished bust circumference (cm/in):

XXS (84.5/33.25), XS (92.5/36.5), S (100.5/39.75), M (112.25/44.25), L (123.75/48.75), XL (135.25/53.25), 2XL (146.75/57.75), 3XL (158.5/62.5),
4XL (170/67), 5XL (181.5/71.5)

Yarn
Scheepjes “Whirlette”
60% cotton, 40% acrylic
Fingering weight (#1)
455 m/498 y per 100 gram/3.5 ounce cake

Sample shown, made with ¾ sleeves, cropped length, in size medium used 270 grams (3 cakes) and 1229 m/1344 y in colour 860, “Ice.”

Yarn requirements per size, per option (M/Y):
Note: yarn requirements include the yarn amount for a gauge swatch of 20cmX20cm (8inX8in), approximately 65m/71y.

¾ sleeves, cropped:

XXS (954/1043), XS (1090/1192), S (1233/1348), M (1310/1433), L (1416/1549),
XL (1582/1730), 2XL (1658/1814), 3XL (1825/1996), 4XL (2005/2193),
5XL (2088/2283)

¾ sleeves, full length:

XXS (1057/1156), XS (1203/1316), S (1356/1482), M (1447/1583), L (1618/1769),
XL (1747/1910), 2XL (1838/2010), 3XL (2019/2208), 4XL (2213/2420),
5XL (2310/2526)

Full sleeves, cropped:

XXS (1205/1318), XS (1390/1520), S (1555/1701), M (1611/1761), L (1742/1905),
XL (1913/2092), 2XL (1963/2147), 3XL (2148/2349), 4XL (2323/2540),
5XL (2374/2596)

Full sleeves, full-length:

XXS (1308/1431), XS (1503/1644), S (1678/1835), M (1748/1911), L (1944/2126),
XL (2079/2273), 2XL (2142/2343), 3XL (2342/2561), 4XL (2531/2768),
5XL (2596/2839)

Suggested yarn substitutions:
Scheepjes “Whirl,” “Sunkissed,” “Catona,”or “Cotton 8,” Yarn Bee “Rainbow Wrapsody,” Hobbii “Rainbow Cotton 8/4,” any sock yarn (by Opal, Regia, Malabrigo, Cascade, Patons, Bernat, Sweet Georgia, for example), Red Heart “It’s a Wrap,” Lionbrand “Amazing Lace,” “Perle 5/2,” “10/2 Cotton Yarn,” LB Collection “Merino Silk Cotton,” Noro “Silk Garden Sock Yarn,” Handmaiden “Sea Silk,” Manos del Uruguay “Alegria,” Sugar Bush “Itty-Bitty Yarn,” Cascade “Heritage Solids” and “220 Fingering,” Malabrigo “Mechita” or “Finito,” DMC
“Natura Just Cotton,” King Cole “Giza 4 Ply”or “Merino Blend 4 Ply,” Sirdar “Country Classic 4 Ply,” Rowan “Summerlite 4 Ply,” Lang Yarns “Merino 200
Bebe” or “Merino 150,” Debbie Bliss “Rialto 4 Ply” or “Fine Donegal,” Stylecraft
“Classique Cotton 4 Ply,” Schachenmayr “Merino Extrafine 170” or “Peach Cotton” or “Catania Fine,” Paton’s “100% Cotton 4 Ply,” Spud & Chloe “Fine.”

Hook
5 mm/US H or size required to meet the gauge