Lana Grossa 07 Jacket Coat Knitting Pattern

Lana Grossa 07 Jacket in Lala Berlin Shiny

What is Being Made

This is a fitted knitted jacket designed by Lana Grossa, featured in Filati Journal 58. The jacket is constructed to fit sizes 36 through 44, offering a tailored silhouette with a structured design. The finished piece features four dark grey mother-of-pearl buttons for closure, creating a polished, professional appearance suitable for layering and everyday wear.

Knitting Techniques

The Lana Grossa 07 Jacket employs a bottom-up construction method, meaning the garment is knitted from the lower edge upward. The jacket is worked flat on circular needles rather than in the round, allowing for careful shaping and seaming. Seamed construction is used to join pieces together, creating clean, finished edges. The design incorporates full-fashion decreasing, a technique where decreases are worked one or two stitches in from the edges to create neat, decorative decrease lines that enhance the garment's tailored appearance.

Stitches and Stitch Patterns

The jacket features multiple stitch patterns that create visual interest and structure:

• Rib Pattern: A classic k2, p2 (knit 2, purl 2) ribbing is used for the sleeve cuffs and other ribbed sections, providing elasticity and a fitted finish
• Seeded Check Pattern: A textured stitch pattern worked from a chart, creating a subtle checked or dotted texture across the body of the jacket
• Garter Selvage: Slip stitch selvage edges are maintained throughout, where the first stitch of each row is slipped knitwise and the last stitch is slipped purlwise with yarn in front, creating neat, professional-looking side edges ideal for seaming

The combination of ribbed sections and the seeded check pattern provides both structure and textural variation to the finished garment.

Materials and Tools

The Lana Grossa 07 Jacket requires 550 grams of Lana Grossa Lala Berlin Shiny yarn in the colorway Grey (col 6). This yarn is a premium blend composed of 46% baby alpaca, 30% cotton, 8% Merino wool, 8% polyester, and 8% polyamide, offering a luxurious feel with excellent drape and breathability. The yarn is worked at a gauge of approximately 150 meters per 50 grams.

The pattern calls for the following needles and notions:

• Size 6 mm and 7 mm circular needles in both 80 cm and 120 cm lengths, allowing for proper needle selection based on stitch count and garment sections
• Size 5 mm crochet hook for finishing details
• Four 20 mm mother-of-pearl buttons in dark grey (Union Knopf item 453037, col 78) for button closures

The use of circular needles for flat knitting provides stability and comfort, particularly when working with the larger stitch counts required for this fitted jacket design.