Lana Grossa Coat Knitting Pattern

Lana Grossa Coat in Silkhair

What is Being Made

The Lana Grossa Coat in Silkhair is a sophisticated knitted coat designed in three sizes: 36/38, 40/42, and 44/46. This garment features a refined construction with distinct stitch pattern placement, including stockinette stitch and reverse stockinette stitch sections that create visual interest and texture variation across the front panels and body.

Techniques Used

This coat is constructed using a bottom-up seamed approach, meaning the pieces are knitted from the cast-on edge upward and then sewn together to form the finished garment. The pattern is worked flat on straight needles rather than in the round, allowing for precise shaping and pattern placement on individual pieces.

The construction includes full-fashion decreases, a professional shaping technique that creates decorative decrease lines visible on the finished garment. These decreases are strategically placed for neck shaping and armhole definition. The coat features selvage stitches on every row—the first stitch is slipped knitwise and the last stitch is knitted—creating clean, finished edges ideal for seaming.

Stitches Used

• Rib Pattern: A classic knit-one, purl-one (K1, P1) ribbing used for the cuff sections, providing elasticity and structure at the edges
• Stockinette Stitch (St st): Knit on right-side rows and purl on wrong-side rows, creating the smooth, flat fabric that forms the primary body of the coat
• Reverse Stockinette Stitch (Rev St st): Purl on right-side rows and knit on wrong-side rows, creating a textured, bumpy surface that contrasts with the stockinette sections and adds visual dimension to the front panels
• Full-Fashion Decreases: Techniques including K2tog (knit two together) and SKP (slip, knit, pass slipped stitch over) used for shaping that creates decorative decrease lines

Materials and Specifications

The Lana Grossa Coat in Silkhair is knitted with Lana Grossa Silkhair yarn, a luxury blend composed of 70% superkid mohair and 30% silk. This fiber combination creates an exceptionally soft, lustrous fabric with a subtle sheen characteristic of silk content. The yarn is worked at a gauge of 210 meters per 25 grams.

Yardage requirements are size-dependent: the smallest size (36/38) requires 300 grams of yarn, the medium size (40/42) requires 325 grams, and the largest size (44/46) requires 350 grams. Throughout the entire project, 2 strands of yarn are held together, creating a thicker, more substantial fabric with enhanced drape and warmth.

Construction uses size 6 mm needles, appropriately scaled to accommodate the doubled yarn weight and create the intended fabric density and hand feel.

Pattern Details

The coat pieces—left front, right front, and sleeves—are each cast on with the specified stitch count for the chosen size. The front panels begin with 3 rows of rib patterning measuring 1.5 centimeters from the cast-on edge, establishing a finished lower edge. The main body sections transition into the stitch pattern combination of stockinette and reverse stockinette, with the pattern placement reversed between left and right fronts for symmetry.

Shaping progresses through full-fashion decreases at the neck edge, occurring every 10th row for a total of 6 decrease rows. Armhole and shoulder shaping are coordinated with the back piece, and the collar is worked separately with an additional cast-on stitch, continuing for 7 centimeters before placing stitches on a holder for finishing. The sleeves follow a similar foundational structure with their own ribbed cuff section.