Kurze Damenjacke in Schachenmayr Merino Extrafine 120 - S7041A - Downloadable PDF

Pattern Summary: Kurze Damenjacke – Short Women's Jacket in Schachenmayr Merino Extrafine 120 (S7041A)

This free downloadable PDF knitting pattern from Schachenmayr provides instructions for a short women's jacket knitted in the brand's popular Merino Extrafine 120 yarn. The design is a classic, fitted button-front jacket with structured shaping at the armholes, shoulders, and neckline, making it a rewarding project for knitters with some experience in garment construction. The pattern is offered in three sizes: 34/36, 38/40, and 42/44, covering a broad range of women's fits.

What Is Being Made

The finished garment is a short, tailored women's jacket featuring a button band (Blende) along both front edges, a shaped neckline, and classic set-in sleeve shaping. The jacket is worked in separate pieces — a back, a left front, and a right front — and then seamed together. Button bands are picked up along the front edges and worked in ribbing, with four buttonholes incorporated into the right front band across all three sizes.

Techniques Used

• Flat knitting – all pieces are worked back and forth in rows rather than in the round
• Armhole shaping – stitches are cast off at the beginning of rows to create a clean, structured armhole curve on both the back and front pieces
• Shoulder shaping – stepped cast-offs are worked at the shoulder edges to create a smooth, angled shoulder line
• Neckline shaping – gradual decreases worked every 2nd and every 4th row shape a neat front neckline on both left and right fronts
• Picking up stitches – stitches for the front button bands are picked up along the finished front edges before working the ribbed band separately
• Buttonhole construction – four buttonholes are worked into the right front band during the ribbing section
• Seaming – finished pieces are joined using standard garment assembly techniques

Stitches Used

• Grundmuster (main pattern stitch) – the body of the jacket is worked in a defined main stitch pattern throughout all pieces, giving the fabric its primary texture and drape
• Bündchenmuster (ribbing stitch) – used for the front button bands (Blende), worked on slightly smaller needles to create a neat, elastic edge; the first wrong-side row begins with an edge stitch and one purl stitch, then mirrors this at the end of the row
• Randmaschen (edge stitches) – selvedge stitches are worked consistently throughout to keep edges tidy and to facilitate clean seaming and stitch pick-up

Construction Details and Measurements

The back piece begins with a cast-on and is worked upward in the main pattern. Armhole shaping begins at 24 cm height, reducing the stitch count progressively. Shoulder shaping begins at 44 (46/48) cm height, with the remaining centre stitches — 43 (45/45) stitches — cast off straight for the back neckline. The total height of the back piece is 46 (48/50) cm.

The left front piece is cast on with 51 (59/67) stitches and worked in the main pattern. Armhole shaping mirrors the back at 24 cm. Neckline shaping begins at 36 (36/38) cm height, with an initial cast-off of 10 (10/11) stitches, followed by decreases every 2nd row and then every 4th row. The right front piece is worked as a mirror image of the left, with the addition of the four buttonholes in its front band.

Front bands are worked by picking up 89 (89/93) stitches along each front edge using slightly smaller needles, then worked in ribbing to a height of 4 cm before casting off.

Materials: Yarn