Lana Grossa 24 Jacket Cardigan Knitting Pattern

Lana Grossa Ecopuno Design 24 Jacket

What is Being Made

The Lana Grossa Ecopuno Design 24 is a seamed cardigan jacket worked in a classic bottom-up construction. This one-size garment features a structured silhouette with front button bands, set-in armholes, and shaped shoulders. The design incorporates functional pocket openings on the front pieces, making it both a stylish and practical layering piece.

Techniques Used

This jacket employs several intermediate knitting techniques that add visual interest and structural integrity:

• Bottom-up construction: The garment is worked from the lower edges upward, beginning with cast-on stitches at the hem and progressing toward the shoulders and neckline.
• Worked flat: All pieces are knitted flat on straight needles rather than in the round, requiring seaming to join the finished pieces together.
• Seamed assembly: Individual pieces—back, left front, right front, sleeves, and bands—are carefully seamed together to create the finished jacket.
• Lace patterning: A charted lace pattern adds decorative texture and visual depth throughout the body of the jacket, with the pattern repeat worked multiple times across the width of each piece.
• Pocket construction: Functional pockets are integrated into the front pieces using a lining technique, with stitches held on a holder during the main body work and later picked up for the pocket trim.

Stitches Used

The Ecopuno Design 24 combines several fundamental and decorative stitches to create its finished appearance:

• Ribbed stitching: A knit-one, purl-one (k1, p1) rib pattern is used for the lower edges and pocket trims, providing elasticity and a neat finished edge.
• Seed stitch: This reversible textured stitch—created by alternating knit and purl stitches within rows and purling the knit stitches while knitting the purl stitches on subsequent rows—appears on the front pieces as a base texture.
• Charted lace pattern: A 16-row repeat lace pattern is worked from a provided chart, creating an openwork design that repeats across the width of the jacket body.
• Selvage stitches: Three-stitch selvages are maintained at the edges of pieces for neat finishing and easier seaming. These are worked using slip stitches and stockinette stitch techniques, with specific methods for right-side and wrong-side rows to ensure a clean edge.

Materials and Gauge

The Lana Grossa Ecopuno Design 24 is knitted using premium natural and sustainable fibers. The yarn specified is Lana Grossa Ecopuno, a blend of 72% cotton, 17% Merino wool, and 11% baby alpaca, offering breathability, warmth, and a soft hand. A total of 400 grams of yarn in the colorway Curry (color 53) is required to complete the one-size jacket. The yardage is 215 meters per 50-gram ball, providing approximately 1,720 meters of working yarn.

Two needle sizes are used in this project: size 3 mm needles for ribbed edges, pocket trims, and the initial cast-on, and size 4 mm needles for the main body and lace pattern work. This two-needle-size approach is common in knitting to create definition between textured edges and the main fabric.