Lana Grossa 08 Jacket Cardigan Knitting Pattern

Lana Grossa Più Bella Design 08 Jacket

What Is Being Made

The Lana Grossa Più Bella Design 08 is an intermediate-level knitted jacket featuring a structured cardigan silhouette. This garment is constructed with a fitted body, set-in sleeves, and functional patch pockets positioned on the front panels. The design comes in three sizes: 36/38, 40/42, and 44, allowing for customization across multiple fit ranges.

Techniques Used

This jacket employs several key knitting techniques to achieve its polished construction:

• Full-fashion shaping: Increases and decreases are worked using full-fashion methods, which create a more refined, tailored appearance along the edges of garment pieces rather than simple edge increases.
• Selvage stitches: Edge stitches are maintained throughout using slip stitch selvage on alternating rows, with the first stitch knitted and the last stitch slipped purlwise with yarn in front. This creates clean, professional edges suitable for seaming.
• Blocking and finishing: Pieces are pinned to measurements and blocked before assembly to ensure accurate sizing and professional presentation.
• Seaming: Pockets are sewn to the front panels using the schematic provided for precise placement, and body pieces are seamed together to complete the jacket.

Stitches Used

The Lana Grossa Più Bella Design 08 incorporates two primary stitch patterns:

• Texture pattern: A two-stitch repeat (multiple of 2 + 1 + 2 selvage stitches) that creates visual interest on the garment. This pattern is worked by inserting the right needle between two stitches to pull up a loop, then knitting those two stitches together through the back loop. This textured stitch is used on the sleeves, pocket details, and portions of the body.
• Stockinette stitch (St st): The foundational smooth stitch created by knitting on right-side rows and purling on wrong-side rows. This stitch forms the primary fabric of the jacket body and sleeves after the initial textured sections.

Materials and Tools

The Lana Grossa Più Bella Design 08 requires 325 grams for size 36/38 (350 grams for size 40/42, and 375 grams for size 44) of Lana Grossa Più Bella yarn. This luxury blend consists of 59% baby alpaca, 20% polyamide, 15% cashmere, and 6% Merino wool, providing exceptional softness, warmth, and durability. The yarn is supplied at 100 meters per 25-gram ball.

Knitting needles required include size 4 mm needles for the initial textured sections and ribbed elements, and size 5 mm needles for the main body and sleeve fabric. The needle size change creates a subtle gauge shift that enhances the drape and fit of the finished jacket. The color used in the provided instructions is Grey Blue (color 9), though other colorways in the Più Bella range may be substituted based on preference.

Construction Details

The jacket is constructed in separate pieces that are later seamed together. The sleeves begin with a cast-on of 65 stitches and feature a 3-centimeter textured pattern section before transitioning to stockinette stitch. Sleeve shaping is achieved through full-fashion increases worked at regular intervals, with the frequency varying by size to accommodate the different finished dimensions. The sleeves measure 36 centimeters in length from the cast-on edge to the bind-off.

Patch pockets are knitted separately using size 5 mm needles, cast on with 25 stitches, and shaped with full-fashion increases to create a subtle A-line silhouette. Each pocket measures approximately 10 centimeters in stockinette stitch before transitioning to the texture pattern for the final 5 centimeters, creating a coordinated design element that echoes the jacket's primary stitch patterns.