Blue Jacket with Cabled Collar in BC Garn Silkbloom Fino - 2336BC - Downloadable PDF

Blue Jacket with Cabled Collar in BC Garn Silkbloom Fino – Pattern Summary

This is a free, downloadable PDF knitting pattern for a Blue Jacket with Cabled Collar, designed by Ann Højgaard Slot and published by BC Garn (pattern number 2336BC). Rated as an intermediate level project, this elegant jacket combines classic construction with refined cable detailing, making it a rewarding knit for those who have moved beyond the basics and are comfortable working with cables and shaping techniques.

What Is Being Made

The pattern produces a fitted, wearable jacket featuring a distinctive cabled collar as its focal point. The garment is worked in a soft, lightweight 4-ply weight yarn and finished with 4 buttons. Three sizes are available:

• Small: Width 91 cm, Length 55 cm
• Medium: Width 95 cm, Length 56 cm
• Large: Width 99 cm, Length 57 cm

The finished jacket is a polished, structured piece suited to everyday wear or smarter occasions, with the cabled collar providing a tactile and visual highlight against the smooth body fabric.

Construction and Techniques

The jacket is constructed using a combination of flat and circular knitting methods, with the body worked on a circular needle to manage the stitch count efficiently. The construction incorporates a raglan-style shaping technique, which creates smooth, diagonal decrease lines that form the armhole and sleeve joins in a single, integrated structure.

The raglan shaping is worked with precision: 8 stitches are decreased per round, with decreases placed on either side of a designated purl stitch that flanks the cable sections. Decreases are worked on every second round, using directional decrease methods to maintain a neat, symmetrical finish. Specifically:

• Decreases before the cable: Worked as K2tog tbl (knit 2 together through the back loop) for a left-leaning decrease
• Decreases after the cable: Worked as K2tog (knit 2 together) for a right-leaning decrease

This careful pairing of directional decreases is a hallmark of well-finished raglan garments and ensures the shaping lines are clean and intentional. The body is cast on with 256 (268) 280 stitches using a 4 mm circular needle, reflecting the fine gauge of the yarn.

Stitches and Stitch Patterns

The pattern draws on a focused selection of knitting stitches and techniques that combine texture with structure:

• Stockinette stitch (St st): The primary body fabric, worked by alternating knit rows on the right side and purl rows on the wrong side, producing a smooth, classic surface
• Cable stitch (worked with a cable needle, cn): Featured prominently in the collar and at the raglan seam lines; cables are created by temporarily holding stitches on a cable needle and crossing them to produce twisted rope-like patterns
• Knit (K) and Purl (P) stitches: Used throughout for fabric construction, ribbing, and textural contrast
• K2tog (knit 2 together): A standard right-leaning decrease used in raglan shaping
• K2tog tbl (knit 2 together through the back loop): A left-leaning decrease used to mirror the K2tog at raglan points
• Increases (Inc) and Decreases (Dec): Applied at multiple points for garment shaping

The pattern references Chart 1 for the main stitch pattern, with a stated tension of 26 stitches × 33 rows = 10 × 10 cm on 4 mm needles. Achieving this tension swatch is important given the fine weight of the yarn and the fitted nature of the finished garment.

Materials

Yarn

The pattern is designed specifically for Silkbloom Fino by BC Garn