Lana Grossa Cardigan Knitting Pattern

Lana Grossa Cardigan in Linarte & Silkhair

What Is Being Made

This is a sophisticated cardigan jacket crafted from a luxurious blend of two premium yarns. The design features lace patterning throughout and is constructed using a seamed, bottom-up approach. The cardigan includes a single button closure and shaped neckline with an integrated neckband, making it a refined layering piece suitable for transitional seasons.

Techniques Used

The cardigan is worked flat on straight needles rather than in the round, allowing for seaming at side and sleeve seams after individual pieces are completed. The bottom-up construction method means the garment is knitted from the cast-on edge upward, with shaping introduced progressively as the piece grows. Lace patterning is incorporated throughout using charted stitch patterns, creating an open, textured fabric. Full-fashion decreases are employed for professional shaping at the armholes and neckline, ensuring neat, decorative decreases that sit one or two stitches in from the edges. The cardigan features selvage stitches on every row—the first stitch is slipped knitwise and the last stitch is knitted—to create clean, finished edges ideal for seaming.

Stitches Used

The pattern utilizes knit and purl stitches as foundational elements, with yarn overs (yo) creating the openwork lace effect. Slip, knit, pass slipped stitch over (skp) decreases are worked for full-fashion shaping. A buttonhole is created using the skp and yarn over technique (skp, yo) positioned at the neckline edge of the right front. The stitch patterns are provided in chart form, with separate charts for different sections: Chart A for sleeves, Charts B and C for the left front, Charts D for continuation of the left front, and Charts E and F for the right front. Charts indicate both wrong-side (WS) and right-side (RS) rows, with purl stitches worked on unmarked WS rows.

Materials

The cardigan requires two distinct Lana Grossa yarns worked together as a single strand throughout:

• Lana Grossa Linarte: 550 grams total in Dark Petrol (color 73). This yarn is composed of 40% viscose, 30% cotton, 20% linen, and 10% polyamide, with a yardage of 125 meters per 50-gram ball. Linarte provides structure and drape to the blend.
• Lana Grossa Silkhair: 150 grams total in Lagoon (color 151). This yarn contains 70% superkid mohair and 30% silk, yielding 210 meters per 25-gram ball. Silkhair adds softness, sheen, and a subtle halo effect to the finished fabric.

Needles required are size 4 mm and size 5 mm, with the smaller needles used for initial cast-on and lace charting, then switching to the larger needles for the main fabric sections to achieve proper gauge and drape. One 30 mm button is needed for the closure. The two yarns are held together as a single strand throughout the entire project, creating a cohesive, blended fabric with combined fiber benefits.