Ladies’ Jacket with Short Sleeves in Schachenmayr Micro Grande - S7383 - Downloadable PDF

Ladies' Short-Sleeve Jacket in Schachenmayr Micro Grande – Pattern S7383

This free downloadable knitting pattern, reference S7383, guides knitters through the construction of a classic ladies' jacket with short sleeves, offered in three women's sizes: 36/38, 40/42, and 44/46. Published by Schachenmayr/SMC under the Coats PLC copyright, the design is worked in a delicate eyelet lace fabric that gives the finished jacket an elegant, lightweight appearance — ideal for layering in transitional seasons.

What Is Being Made

The pattern produces a structured women's jacket featuring short, set-in sleeves that are knitted directly onto the body pieces rather than sewn on separately. The garment includes a ribbed garter-stitch welt at the lower edge for stability, a defined front opening, and three buttons approximately 2.5 cm in diameter as closures. The combination of a textured eyelet body with a neat garter border creates a polished, feminine silhouette suitable for a range of occasions.

Techniques Used

• Bottom-up flat construction: The back and front pieces are worked flat from the cast-on edge upward, then joined at finishing.
• Attached short sleeves: The sleeves are knitted directly onto the body pieces (angestrickte Ärmel), eliminating the need for separate sleeve seams at the cap.
• Shaping with yarn-overs and decreases: Increases and decreases throughout the eyelet pattern are carefully paired — a yarn-over is only worked when the corresponding two-stitch decrease can also be completed, and vice versa, ensuring the stitch count remains consistent even during shaping rows.
• Garter stitch welts: A 3.5 cm (15-row) garter stitch border is worked at the cast-on edge of the back piece to provide structure and prevent rolling.
• Stitch reduction after welt: At the end of the welt, stitches are decreased evenly across a return row — for example, the back piece reduces from 99 (111/119) stitches to 87 (97/103) stitches — transitioning smoothly into the main eyelet pattern.
• Buttonhole and button band finishing: The front edges are finished to accommodate three buttons, creating a neat, functional closure.

Stitches Used

• Garter stitch (Kraus rechts): Every row is knitted on the right side, creating a ridged, non-curling fabric used for the welts and borders.
• Eyelet lace pattern (Lochmuster): An 8-row repeat worked over an odd number of stitches. The pattern alternates between purl rows, yarn-over rows, and rows combining yarn-overs with right-leaning or left-leaning decreases. Specifically:
  • Rows 1 and 2: All stitches purled.
  • Row 3: Edge stitch knitted, then a repeat of yarn-over, slip-one-knit-one-pass-slipped-stitch-over (left-leaning decrease).
  • Row 4 and all return rows: All stitches and yarn-overs purled.
  • Row 5: All stitches purled.
  • Row 7: Edge stitch worked together with the following stitch, yarn-over, then a repeat of knit-two-together (right-leaning decrease) and yarn-over, ending with the edge stitch knitted.
• Knit two together (2 M rechts zusammenstricken): A standard right-leaning decrease used both in shaping and within the eyelet pattern repeat.
• Slip, knit, pass slipped stitch over (überzogen zusammenstricken): A left-leaning decrease that pairs with yarn-overs to maintain stitch count in the lace pattern.
• Yarn-over (Umschlag): Used throughout the eyelet repeat to create decorative holes and to compensate for each decrease.