Jacket in Piu Bella in Lana Grossa - 0812 - Downloadable PDF

Lana Grossa Più Bella Jacket – Pattern Summary (Design 08, Lookbook 12)

This intermediate-level knitting pattern from Lana Grossa is a downloadable PDF for a beautifully textured jacket, designated as Design 08 from Lookbook 12. The design is worked in the luxurious Lana Grossa Più Bella yarn, a lace-weight blend that produces a delicate, lightweight fabric with exceptional drape — ideal for a refined, elegant outerwear piece. The jacket is sized for women's sizes 36/38, 40/42, and 44, making it accessible across a range of fits.

What Is Being Made

The finished project is a structured knitted jacket featuring shaped front panels, set-in or tailored sleeves, and a refined silhouette. The pattern includes a left front, right front (worked as a mirror image of the left), and sleeves, suggesting a classic construction with separate pieces seamed together. Full-fashion shaping is used throughout for a polished, professional finish. The jacket is designed to be a wearable, sophisticated layering piece suitable for intermediate knitters comfortable with reading multi-size instructions and working shaping techniques.

Yarn and Materials

The pattern calls for Lana Grossa Più Bella, a premium lace-weight yarn with an exceptional fiber composition:

• 59% Baby Alpaca – for softness, warmth, and a subtle halo
• 20% Polyamide – for durability and stitch definition
• 15% Cashmere – for an ultra-luxurious hand feel
• 6% Merino Wool – for elasticity and structure

Each ball weighs 25 g with a yardage of 100 m per ball. The colorway used in the pattern is Grey Blue (colour 9). Yarn requirements are 325 g for size 36/38, 350 g for size 40/42, and 375 g for size 44.

Two needle sizes are required:

• Size 4 mm needles – used for the cast-on and initial texture pattern sections
• Size 5 mm needles – used for the main body of the jacket after the textured border

Techniques Used

This pattern employs a range of classic and refined knitting techniques suited to an intermediate knitter:

• Full-fashion shaping – increases and decreases are worked a set number of stitches in from the edge, creating a visible and decorative shaping line that is characteristic of high-quality knitwear construction
• Sleeve shaping – stitches are increased at each end at regular row intervals to create a tapered sleeve that widens from cuff to cap
• Mirror-image construction – the right front is worked as a reverse of the left front, requiring the knitter to reverse all shaping and pattern placement
• Needle size changes – switching from 4 mm to 5 mm needles mid-piece creates a natural transition between the textured border and the main fabric
• Selvage stitches – maintained throughout to ensure clean, seam-ready edges
• Multi-size reading – instructions are written for the first size with larger sizes given in parentheses, requiring the knitter to track their chosen size throughout

Stitches Used

The jacket combines two primary stitch patterns to create visual interest and textural contrast:

• Texture pattern – worked for the first 3 cm of the sleeves and used as a border or detail section on the fronts; this stitch pattern adds surface interest and a tactile quality to the fabric
• Stockinette stitch (St st) – the main body stitch used after the textured section, creating a smooth, classic fabric that showcases the beautiful drape and sheen of the Più Bella yarn
• Garter stitch – referenced at the cast-on with a knit