Aimee Jacket - Jacket and Coat Knitting Pattern For Girls in MillaMia Naturally Soft Aran by MillaMia

Aimee Jacket – Girls' Knitting Pattern in MillaMia Naturally Soft Aran

The Aimee Jacket is a charming girls' knitting pattern by MillaMia, designed to create a structured, cosy jacket with a classic silhouette and playful contrast detailing. Worked in MillaMia Naturally Soft Aran yarn, this pattern produces a beautifully dense fabric that is warm, durable, and perfectly suited to everyday wear for girls aged 1–2, 3–4, 5–6, and 7–8 years. The finished jacket features contrast-coloured pocket trims and edges that give it a bold, modern pop of colour, making it as stylish as it is practical.

What Is Being Made

This pattern creates a knitted girls' jacket or coat with set-in or structured sleeves, front button bands, patch pockets, and contrast colour edging. The jacket is sized to fit chest measurements of 64, 68, 72, and 76 cm (25¼–30 inches), with corresponding lengths to shoulder of 40–58 cm and sleeve lengths of 23–35 cm, making it a versatile wardrobe staple across multiple years of wear. Six buttons fasten the front, adding a neat, tailored finish.

Construction Method

• Bottom-up construction: The jacket is worked from the lower edge upward, which allows knitters to easily adjust length before the armhole shaping begins.
• Worked flat: All pieces are knitted flat on straight needles rather than in the round, producing separate front, back, and sleeve panels.
• Seamed finishing: The individual pieces are joined using seaming techniques, giving the finished jacket a structured, garment-quality shape with clean edges.
• Buttonholes: Worked into the button band to accommodate six buttons, the buttonholes are integrated neatly into the front band knitting.

Stitches and Techniques Used

The Aimee Jacket is built primarily around garter stitch — a simple but highly effective stitch pattern created by knitting every row. As the pattern notes, garter stitch gives the jacket a wonderful density, producing a thick, squishy fabric with excellent body and warmth. Because garter stitch lies flat naturally, it is ideal for front bands and pocket edgings without the need for additional border treatments.

• Garter stitch (g-st): The main fabric stitch throughout the jacket body, sleeves, and structural elements.
• Buttonhole construction: Integrated into the front band to create neat, functional openings for the six buttons.
• Increasing and decreasing: Techniques including k2tog (knit two together), m1 (make one), and p2tog (purl two together) are used to shape the garment pieces, including sleeve tapers and armhole shaping.
• Two-colour working: The main body is knitted in Colour A (Cloud Grey 227) while Colour B (Cherry Red 242) is used for the contrast pocket trims and edges, requiring straightforward colour changes at the appropriate sections.
• Seaming: Finished pieces are sewn together after blocking, a standard technique for seamed garment construction that reinforces the jacket's shape.

Difficulty Level

The pattern is rated Improving (equivalent to intermediate level), making it well suited to knitters who are comfortable with basic knit and purl stitches and are ready to tackle simple garment shaping, buttonhole construction, and seaming. The predominantly garter stitch fabric means there is no complex stitch pattern to track, allowing knitters to focus on learning garment-making skills with confidence.

Materials Required

• Yarn: MillaMia Naturally Soft Aran — 9 (10:11:12) × 50g/1¾oz balls in Cloud Grey (227) as the main colour (A), plus one 50g ball in Cherry Red (242) as the contrast colour (B). The pattern also suggests alternative colourways including Blush (229), Ivory (221), Mist (225), and Mag