Garter Stitch & Diamonds Jacket in Rowan Kidsilk Haze - Downloadable PDF

Garter Stitch & Diamonds Jacket in Rowan Kidsilk Haze

What is Being Made

This is a knitted jacket featuring a sophisticated combination of garter stitch and diamond motifs. Designed by Georgia Farrell, the jacket is constructed as a seamless or minimal-seam garment that showcases decorative charted diamond patterns integrated throughout the body and sleeves. The design offers multiple size options ranging from 71-86 cm to 142-157 cm chest measurements, making it suitable for various body types.

Techniques Used

The jacket employs charted knitting as its primary technique, requiring knitters to follow stitch-by-stitch instructions from visual charts. The pattern utilizes set-in or drop sleeves with cast-on stitches for sleeve sections worked directly into the body of the garment. Garter stitch serves as the foundational texture throughout much of the design, providing a classic, reversible fabric with horizontal ridges. The diamond motifs are created through chart reading, where specific stitches are manipulated to form geometric patterns across the fabric surface.

Stitches Used

• Garter Stitch: The primary stitch throughout the jacket, created by knitting every row to produce a bumpy, textured fabric with visible horizontal ridges
• Charted Stitches: Additional stitches worked from Charts A, B, and C to create the diamond pattern elements
• Cast-on Stitches: Used to add sleeve stitches directly during body construction, with varying cast-on counts (44-46 stitches) depending on size

Materials

This pattern is designed for Rowan Kidsilk Haze, a luxurious yarn composed of mohair and silk blend. The yarn is worked in 25-gram balls, with the total yardage and quantity of balls required varying by size. The delicate nature of Kidsilk Haze creates an elegant drape and subtle sheen, making it ideal for a refined jacket design. Appropriate needles for this yarn weight should be selected according to the pattern specifications to achieve the correct gauge and fabric density.

Difficulty Level

This pattern is rated as intermediate difficulty, suitable for knitters with foundational skills who are comfortable reading charts and managing multiple stitch patterns simultaneously. The combination of garter stitch simplicity with charted diamond work provides an engaging project that builds pattern-reading confidence.