Overview
The Nikola Top is a loose fitting cropped top perfect for wearing on its own or layering.
Its worked bottom up. You start off by knitting the double folded hem and then move onto working the lace texture. The armholes and neck are shaped with decreases and short rows are worked to shape the shoulders. Finally the neck and armholes are finished off with double folded bands. This is the perfect project for using up those special skeins of fingering or making a multicoloured version with scrap yarn stripes.

Sizes
XS-S-M-(L-XL-2X)-3X-4X-5X

Measurements
Bust
86-96-106-(116-127-135)-145-155-166cm

This includes roughly 5-10cm of ease.

Length
40-40-40-(50-50-50)-50-52-52cm from the shoulder to the bottom of the hem.

Yarn
1-1-1-(2-2-2)-3-3-3 skeins of yarn A and 1-1-1-(1-2-2)-2-2-2 skeins of yarn B. This is assuming that each skein is roughly 400m. The design is fairly cropped so if you’d like to add length you may neeed more yarn.

Needles
-3.5 mm needles for the body
-3 mm needles for the neck armholes and hem

Notions
-stitch markers
-waste yarn
-1cm wide elastic

Gauge
25 stitches x 34 rows = 10cm / 4 inches knit flat and in pattern, using 3.5mm needles, blocked. Use the chart to make your swatch.