Girl Jacket in Adriafil Azzurra - Downloadable PDF

Girl Jacket in Adriafil Azzurra – Free Knitting Pattern (Downloadable PDF)

This charming Girl Jacket is a beautifully crafted women's knitted jacket that combines classic stocking stitch knitting with decorative crocheted granny-style squares, creating a colourful and textured garment with real visual impact. The pattern is available as a free downloadable PDF and is published by Adriafil, using their own Azzurra yarn. The design is worked in sizes 38, 40, 42, and 44, making it suitable for a range of adult figures.

What Is Being Made

The finished garment is a fitted jacket featuring a knitted body and sleeves worked in the main colour, with striking crocheted squares incorporated along the sleeve edges and shoulders. These squares are arranged in carefully sequenced colour combinations and joined together to form decorative strips, which are then finished with rows of treble crochet and double crochet edgings. The result is a jacket that blends the clean simplicity of stocking stitch with the rich, patchwork-like character of multicolour crochet motifs.

Materials Required

• Yarn: Adriafil Azzurra – a 4-ply weight yarn – in six colours: lilac no. 72 (A) as the main colour (300g), plus 50g each of fuchsia no. 31 (B), purple no. 30 (C), yellow no. 07 (D), turquoise no. 37 (E), and blue no. 76 (F). Total yarn requirement is 550g.
• Knitting needles: No. 3 (metric)
• Crochet hook: No. 2 (metric)
• Tapestry needle with a rounded tip, for seaming and joining squares

Tension / Gauge

The stated tension is 33 stitches and 50 rows to 10 x 10 cm worked in stocking stitch on no. 3 needles using Adriafil Azzurra. Achieving the correct tension is essential for the jacket to match the intended sizing across all four sizes.

Knitting Techniques and Stitches Used

The main body and sleeves of the jacket are constructed using straightforward stocking stitch (alternating knit and purl rows), which produces a smooth, classic fabric. Armhole shaping is achieved through a series of stepped cast-offs worked every two rows, decreasing progressively to create a neat armhole curve. The back is cast on with 130 (140–150–160) stitches and worked until the armhole shaping begins at 19 (21–23–25) cm.

• Stocking stitch – used throughout the knitted body and sleeves
• Stepped bind-off shaping – for armhole construction
• Shoulder seaming – sewn after the crochet square strips are attached

Crochet Techniques and Stitches Used

A significant and decorative element of this jacket is the use of crochet squares, which are worked separately and then joined into strips for the sleeve edges. These squares are arranged in a specific colour sequence that varies by position – right-hand sleeve edge, left-hand sleeve edge – across six different colour module combinations (mod. 1 through mod. 6). The pattern provides exact colour orders for each module, using colours A through E in rotating sequences.

• Chain stitch – foundational crochet stitch used in square construction
• Single crochet (sc) – used for joining squares and edging
• Double crochet (dc) – used for finishing the three free sides of shoulder rows
• Half treble crochet (htr) – included in the