Jacket in Piu Bella in Lana Grossa - 1212 - Downloadable PDF

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

This downloadable PDF from Lana Grossa presents Design 12 from their Lookbook 12 collection: a sophisticated knitted jacket worked in the luxurious Lana Grossa Più Bella yarn. Classified as an intermediate knitting project, this jacket combines elegant stitch patterning with classic garment shaping, making it an excellent choice for knitters who are comfortable with basic construction and ready to explore charted lace-weight designs.

What Is Being Made

The pattern instructs knitters on how to construct a knitted jacket — a structured, wearable outerwear piece suitable for layering. The garment is worked in multiple pieces (back and fronts at minimum, with armhole shaping referenced throughout), then seamed together. It is available in three sizes:

• Size 36/38 (the base size, with all primary stitch counts given first)
• Size 40/42 (figures given in the first set of parentheses)
• Size 44 (figures given in the second set of parentheses)

Instructions are written so that the first figure always applies to the smallest size, with larger sizes following in parentheses. Where only one figure appears, it applies to all sizes equally.

Materials Required

Yarn

The specified yarn is Lana Grossa Più Bella, a premium lace-weight blend with a beautifully soft and lightweight hand. Its fiber composition is:

• 59% Baby Alpaca – contributes exceptional softness and a subtle natural sheen
• 20% Polyamide – adds durability and stitch definition to the delicate weight
• 15% Cashmere – provides the characteristic luxurious warmth and drape
• 6% Merino Wool – contributes elasticity and structure

Each ball of Lana Grossa Più Bella yields 100 metres per 25 g, placing it firmly in the lace weight category. The colorway used in the pattern is Grey Green (colour 8). Yarn requirements by size are:

• Size 36/38: 175 g
• Size 40/42: 200 g
• Size 44: 225 g

Needles

Two needle sizes are called for, reflecting a common technique of using a smaller needle for ribbing or cast-on edges and a larger needle for the main body fabric:

• Size 5 mm needles – used for the initial cast-on and border sections
• Size 5.5 mm needles – used for the main body fabric once the border is complete

The needle change is made at a specific point in the pattern — after the border measures approximately 3 cm from cast-on — ensuring a neat transition between the tighter border and the more open main fabric.

Techniques Used

This jacket employs several core knitting techniques that intermediate knitters will recognize and build upon:

• Selvage stitches: Each row begins and ends with a selvage stitch, creating clean, stable edges that are essential for neat seaming when joining the garment pieces together.
• Stocking stitch (St st): Sections of plain stocking stitch are worked at the edges of each piece to frame the central charted pattern and ease size adjustments between the three sizes.
• Charted pattern repeats: The main body fabric is governed by a chart with a defined pattern repeat. Depending on size, the repeat is worked 4 times (sizes 36/38 and 40/42) or 5 times (size 44), with additional stitches worked at the beginning and end of rows to balance the design across different widths.
• Increasing: Stitch counts are adjusted