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Knitted Mohair Silk Dress in Lana Grossa Silkhair – Model 02 from Filati Home 70

This elegant knitted dress, Model 02 from the Filati Home 70 collection by Lana Grossa, is a sophisticated raglan-construction garment worked in the brand's luxurious Silkhair yarn. Available as a free downloadable PDF pattern, it is sized for 36/38 and 40/42, making it accessible to a range of knitters looking to create a refined, lightweight dress with a fluid silhouette.

What Is Being Made

The pattern produces a full-length knitted dress featuring a distinctive raglan yoke construction. The garment is worked in separate pieces — front, back, and sleeves — which are then joined at the yoke to form a seamless circular Rundpasse (round yoke). The design is characterized by clean lines, shaped raglan decreases, and a delicate drape made possible by the yarn's mohair and silk content. The finished dress in the smaller size requires approximately 225 g of yarn, and the larger size approximately 250 g, both in the colorway Perlbeige (color 123).

Yarn and Materials

• Yarn: Lana Grossa Silkhair — a luxurious blend of 70% Mohair (Superkid) and 30% Silk, with an approximate yardage of 210 meters per 25 g skein
• Colorway: Perlbeige, color number 123
• Quantity: Approximately 225 g for size 36/38, or 250 g for size 40/42
• Needles: Circular needle Nr. 6 (metric size 6 mm), with a 100 cm cable length used for the round yoke section

Superkid Mohair is prized for its exceptionally fine, soft halo that gives finished knits an ethereal, cloud-like texture. Combined with silk, the resulting yarn is both lightweight and subtly lustrous, draping beautifully — ideal for a dress silhouette. The Silkhair yarn's long yardage per gram means even a relatively small weight of yarn produces a generous amount of fabric.

Construction and Techniques

The dress is constructed using classic flat knitting for the individual body and sleeve pieces, which are later combined onto a long circular needle for the integrated yoke. This approach, common in Scandinavian and European raglan design, allows precise shaping of each panel before the pieces are unified.

• Raglan shaping: The pattern uses betont abnehmen — emphasized or decorative decreases — worked at regular intervals to shape the raglan lines. These decreases are repeated multiple times on each piece, creating the characteristic diagonal seam lines of a raglan garment.
• Short raglan slopes: After a set number of rows following the raglan marker placement, additional short raglan decreases are worked on both sides to refine the shoulder shaping.
• Round yoke (Rundpasse): All pieces are transferred onto the 100 cm circular needle Nr. 6 and the stitches are joined. For the larger size, this includes 42 stitches from the left sleeve, 63 stitches from the front, and corresponding counts from the back and right sleeve, totaling a substantial stitch count worked in the round.
• Stitch holding: At a defined point in the raglan height — noted as 3.5 cm (8 rows) of raglan depth — stitches are placed on hold before the yoke is completed.

Stitches Used

• Main fabric stitch: The body of the dress is worked in a primary stitch pattern consistent with the smooth, flowing aesthetic of the design (referenced throughout the pattern instructions)
• Emphasized decreases (betont abnehmen): A specific decrease technique used to create visible, intentional decrease lines along the raglan edges, worked every 2nd row and repeated multiple times as specified per size