Lana Grossa Jacket Cardigan Knitting Pattern

Lana Grossa Jacket in Piuma

What is Being Made

The Lana Grossa Jacket in Piuma is a seamed cardigan jacket available in three sizes: 36/38, 40/42, and 44/46. This design, featured as Design 14 from Filati Lookbook 07, is a structured knit garment constructed from the bottom up with a classic fitted silhouette and detailed cable patterning throughout the front and body.

Construction and Techniques

This jacket is worked flat on straight needles and assembled using seaming techniques to join the pieces. The garment is constructed bottom-up, beginning with the cast-on edge at the lower body and working upward toward the shoulders and neckline. The design incorporates cable knitting as a primary decorative element, with cables worked according to a detailed chart that repeats over 40 rows.

The jacket features structured shaping throughout, including pocket openings with integrated linings, armhole shaping created through strategic bind-offs, and neck shaping worked in stages to create a finished neckline. The body pieces are worked to specific measurements before shaping begins, with the piece measuring 27 cm from the cast-on before pocket placement and 55 cm before armhole shaping commences.

Stitches Used

• Stockinette Stitch (St st): Knit on right-side rows, purl on wrong-side rows; used as the base fabric throughout the jacket
• Ribbed Pattern (Rib patt): Alternating knit 4, purl 4 sequence; provides elasticity and structure, particularly at edges and cuffs
• Cable Pattern: Worked from a charted pattern with numbered rows indicating right-side and wrong-side rows; cables are created by crossing groups of stitches over each other using a cable needle to create dimensional twisted rope-like textures
• Selvage Stitches: Edge stitches used to create neat, finished edges suitable for seaming

Materials and Tools

The Lana Grossa Jacket in Piuma requires 500 to 600 grams of yarn depending on size (500 g for size 36/38, 550 g for size 40/42, and 600 g for size 44/46). The yarn used is Lana Grossa Piuma, a premium blend consisting of 75% pure wool, 15% alpaca, and 10% polyamide. This fiber composition provides warmth, softness, and durability. The yarn is available in the colorway Olive/Grey-Green/Black (col 3) and features a yardage of 140 meters per 50-gram ball.

Construction requires size 7 mm needles for the main fabric, with gauges of 13 stitches and 20 rows equaling 10 x 10 cm in ribbed pattern, and 35 stitches and 20 rows equaling 20 x 10 cm in cable pattern. A size 7 mm circular needle measuring 40 cm long is used for certain sections, a cable needle (cn) for manipulating cable stitches, and a size 6 mm crochet hook for finishing details such as pocket edging or bind-off work.

Pattern Details and Measurements

The jacket is designed with multiple structural elements that create visual interest and proper fit. Pocket openings are integrated into the front pieces at 27 cm from the cast-on edge, with linings worked separately and grafted into place. The body continues in established pattern until reaching 55 cm, at which point armhole shaping begins through graduated bind-offs: 4 stitches bound off once, 3 stitches once, 2 stitches twice, and 1 stitch twice on each side.

Neck shaping is worked in stages at the beginning of wrong-side rows, binding off 5 stitches once, 4 stitches once, 3 stitches once, 2 stitches twice, and 1 stitch twice to create a gradual, fitted neckline. The finished jacket measures between 79 to 83 cm from the cast-on edge to the shoulder bind-off, depending on size. The cable pattern placement is reversed on the right front to create symmetry, with the final 17 stitches of the cable chart worked on the right front piece.