02 Dress in Lana Grossa Silkhair - Downloadable PDF

Pattern Summary: Design 02 Dress in Lana Grossa Silkhair (Filati Home 70)

This downloadable PDF knitting pattern from Lana Grossa presents Design 02 from the Filati Home 70 collection — an elegant, relaxed-fit dress worked in a luxurious mohair-silk blend yarn. The design is a free downloadable PDF suitable for knitters comfortable with garment construction, lace panels, and working in the round. The dress is worked in pieces and then joined at the yoke for seamless top-down finishing, combining classic flat knitting with circular needle techniques.

What Is Being Made

The pattern produces a full-length knitted dress available in two sizes: 36/38 and 40/42. The dress features a refined silhouette with a decorative center lace panel running up the front and continuing into the yoke. The body is worked flat in separate front and back pieces, while the sleeves are also worked separately and held. All pieces are then joined onto a long circular needle to complete the yoke in the round, creating a smooth, elegant neckline finish.

Construction and Techniques

• Flat knitting for the front and back body pieces, worked on straight or circular needles
• Full-fashion decreases used at side seams for shaping, creating neat, visible decrease lines within the fabric rather than at the very edge
• Held stitches — sleeve and body stitches are placed on holders and later returned to a long circular needle to join all pieces for the yoke
• Working in the round on circular needles for the yoke section, with a beginning-of-round marker placed after the center lace panel
• Yoke decreases worked in a structured decrease round that evenly reduces stitch count across the joined yoke stitches
• Selvage stitches used throughout the flat sections to create clean seaming edges
• Chart-based lace panel worked over a center 23-stitch section, following a written chart through the body and into the yoke
• Joining of sleeve stitches to body stitches at the yoke, with k2tog seaming of selvage stitches to adjoining body stitches for a tidy, minimal-seam join

Stitches Used

• Stockinette stitch (St st) — knit on right side rows, purl on wrong side rows; knit every round when working in the round
• Center lace panel — a charted lace pattern worked over the center 23 stitches of the front, featuring decorative openwork; the chart runs to at least row 27 before the yoke transitions to plain stockinette
• k2tog (knit two together) — a right-leaning decrease used throughout for shaping and yoke joins
• skp (slip, knit, pass slipped stitch over) — a left-leaning decrease used symmetrically with k2tog in full-fashion shaping
• Purl rows used as set-up wrong-side rows at cast-on

Materials

• Yarn: Lana Grossa Silkhair — a luxurious blend of 70% superkid mohair and 30% silk, with a yardage of approximately 210 m per 25 g. The colorway used in the sample is Pearl Beige (color 123). You will need 225 g for size 36/38 or 250 g for size 40/42. Importantly, the pattern specifies working with two strands of yarn held together throughout, which gives the fabric body and warmth while maintaining the airy halo characteristic of mohair-silk blends.
• Needles: Size 6 mm straight needles for flat sections; size 6 mm circular needles in lengths of 100 cm, 80 cm, and 60 cm for the yoke and joining; a size 5.5