String Adele Jacket Cardigan Knitting Pattern

String Adele Jacket

What Is Being Made

The Adele Jacket is a knitted cardigan designed by Lidia Karabinech for String Yarns. This is a sophisticated layering piece available in four sizes: Small, Medium, Large, and Extra Large, with finished bust measurements ranging from 36 inches (91.5 cm) to 47 inches (119.5 cm) and a consistent length of 30½ inches (77.5 cm). The jacket features a raglan armhole construction, making it an elegant choice for both casual and refined wardrobes.

Construction Techniques

The Adele Jacket is worked flat on straight needles using a bottom-up construction method, meaning pieces are knitted from the lower edge upward. The garment is seamed together after individual pieces are completed, allowing for precise shaping and professional finishing. The raglan armhole shaping is achieved through strategic bind-offs and decreases worked on right-side rows, creating diagonal lines that slope from the underarm toward the neckline.

The pattern employs a tubular cast-on technique, a specialty method that creates a refined, professional edge. This technique begins with waste yarn using a provisional cast-on method, followed by specific ribbing rows worked with the main yarn before the waste yarn is removed, resulting in a seamless-looking finished edge.

Stitches Used

• Textured Rib: A multi-row stitch pattern worked over an odd number of stitches, alternating knit and purl stitches in a structured sequence across four rows. This stitch creates visual texture and subtle elasticity throughout the body of the jacket.
• K1, P1 Rib: A classic alternating knit-and-purl ribbing pattern used for edgings and ribbed sections, providing stretch and a polished finish.
• Stockinette Stitch: The fundamental knit-purl combination (knit on right-side rows, purl on wrong-side rows) used as a base structure in the pattern.
• Decreases: Slip-slip-knit (ssk) and knit-two-together (k2tog) decreases are used symmetrically on right-side rows to shape the raglan armholes, with decreases repeated every right-side row for 19 to 25 times depending on size.

Materials and Gauge

The Adele Jacket is designed to be knitted with String Dolcetto yarn, a premium blend of 30% cashmere and 70% merino wool. Each ball contains 1.75 ounces (50 grams) and yields 136 yards (125 meters). The pattern requires 11 to 14 balls depending on size, providing approximately 1,496 to 1,904 yards of yarn total.

Two needle sizes are required: Size 8 (5mm) needles for ribbed sections and the provisional cast-on, and Size 9 (5.5mm) needles for the main textured rib fabric. The gauge is 17½ stitches and 23 rows over 4 inches (10 cm) when working the Textured Rib pattern with the larger needles on the right side. Achieving proper gauge is essential for obtaining the correct finished measurements.

Additional materials include stitch markers for tracking pattern repeats and shaping points, and a yarn needle for weaving in ends and seaming the finished pieces together.