Delphine Jacket - Knitting Pattern For Women in Debbie Bliss Fine Donegal & Angel

Delphine Jacket Knitting Pattern – Women's Fitted Jacket in Debbie Bliss Fine Donegal and Angel

The Delphine Jacket is an elegant women's knitted jacket pattern designed by Debbie Bliss and published in 2019. It is worked using two luxurious yarns held together throughout – Debbie Bliss Fine Donegal and Debbie Bliss Angel – creating a fabric that combines the rustic, tweedy character of a 4-ply wool with the delicate halo of a lace-weight mohair-blend. The result is a beautifully textured, lightweight yet warm jacket with a refined, feminine aesthetic.

What Is Being Made

The pattern produces a seamed, fitted women's jacket with set-in or shaped sleeves, a structured body, and button fastenings. It is sized to fit bust measurements ranging from 82 cm (32 in) to 107 cm (42 in), with finished bust measurements of 90 cm (35½ in) to 126 cm (49½ in), offering a comfortable amount of ease across all sizes. The finished length to shoulder ranges from 57 cm to 63 cm (22½ in to 24¾ in), and the sleeve length is a consistent 44 cm (17¼ in) across sizes. This is an intermediate-level project, well suited to knitters who are comfortable with shaping, working flat, and managing two yarns simultaneously.

Yarns and Materials

The pattern calls for two specific Debbie Bliss yarns used together as a single strand throughout every row:

• Debbie Bliss Fine Donegal in Blackberry 012 – a 4-ply weight yarn with a characteristic tweedy, rustic texture derived from its donegal-style flecks. The pattern requires 300–400 g depending on size.
• Debbie Bliss Angel in Claret 043 – a lace-weight yarn with a soft mohair-like halo that adds warmth, depth of colour, and a subtle luminous quality to the fabric. The pattern requires 5 to 7 balls of 25 g depending on size.

Holding a 4-ply and a lace-weight yarn together is a well-established technique in knitting that allows the knitter to blend colour, texture, and fibre properties in a single fabric. The Angel's halo softens the structured tweed of the Fine Donegal, producing a fabric with visual richness and a gentle, fuzzy surface.

Three pairs of knitting needles are required: 3.25 mm (US 3), 3.75 mm (US 5), and 4 mm (US 6). The different needle sizes are typically used for ribbing or border sections versus the main body fabric, a common approach in garment knitting to ensure neat, firm edges that do not flare or sag.

Tension

The stated tension is 22 stitches and 30 rows to 10 cm (4 in) measured over stocking stitch using 4 mm (US 6) needles with one strand of each yarn held together. Achieving the correct tension is essential in a fitted garment like the Delphine Jacket, where precise stitch counts govern the shaping of the bust, waist, and sleeves across six sizes.

Techniques Used

The Delphine Jacket is worked flat in separate pieces that are subsequently seamed together, following a traditional garment construction method. Key techniques used throughout the pattern include:

• Seamed construction – the jacket pieces are knitted flat and joined using seaming, which gives the finished garment structure and durability.
• Buttonholes – the pattern incorporates worked buttonholes for the front button band, requiring careful placement and execution to ensure neat, consistent openings.
• Buttons – button fastenings are a design feature of the jacket, contributing to its classic, tailored appearance.
• Shaping with decreases and increases – the pattern uses a variety of decrease methods including skpo (slip 1, knit 1, pass slipped stitch over) and k2tog