Lana Grossa 28 Jacket Cardigan Knitting Pattern

Lana Grossa 28 Jacket in Lala Berlin Shiny

What Is Being Made

The Lana Grossa 28 Jacket is a sophisticated cardigan-style jacket designed by Lala Berlin and featured in Filati About Berlin 06. This garment is crafted as a structured, tailored jacket suitable for sizes 36/38, 40/42, and 44/46, offering versatility across multiple fit ranges. The design combines classic cardigan construction with refined shaping techniques to create a polished, wearable piece.

Techniques Used

This jacket is constructed using bottom-up seamed construction, meaning pieces are knitted individually from the cast-on edge upward and then sewn together. The garment is worked flat on straight needles rather than in the round, allowing for precise shaping and control over the finished edges. The design incorporates full-fashion decreases at strategic points to create elegant, visible shaping lines that are both functional and decorative. These decreases are worked at the beginning and end of right-side rows using a slip-stitch decrease method (skp technique), resulting in a refined, professional appearance.

The jacket features pocket construction, with two pockets made separately and sewn into place during finishing. Shaping techniques include strategic increases and decreases timed at specific row intervals to create neck shaping, waist definition, and proper garment fit. The finishing process involves pinning pieces to measurements, blocking for shape, and careful seaming of shoulder and side seams.

Stitches Used

The pattern employs two primary stitches throughout the design:

• Ribbed Pattern (K1, P1): Used for the cuff and waistband areas, this alternating knit and purl pattern creates elasticity and helps the garment sit smoothly against the body. The ribbed sections are worked for 4 centimeters at the cast-on edge and appear again in the pocket finishing.
• Stockinette Stitch (St st): The main fabric of the jacket, created by knitting on right-side rows and purling on wrong-side rows. This classic stitch produces a smooth, polished surface ideal for a tailored jacket and allows shaping decreases and increases to be clearly visible.

Materials

The Lana Grossa 28 Jacket requires 350 to 450 grams of yarn depending on size (350g for size 36/38, 400g for size 40/42, and 450g for size 44/46). The specified yarn is Lana Grossa Lala Berlin Shiny in the colorway Cyclamen (col 1), a luxurious blend composed of 46% alpaca, 30% cotton, 8% pure wool, 8% polyamide, and 8% polyester. This yarn is supplied at 150 meters per 50-gram ball, offering a sophisticated drape and subtle sheen appropriate for a refined jacket.

Needles required include size 4 mm straight needles for working the flat pieces and a size 4 mm circular needle measuring 120 centimeters long for picking up stitches during the finishing stages, particularly for neckline and edging work.