Cushion Cover in Schachenmayr Merino Extrafine Cotton 120 - S8947

Cushion Cover in Schachenmayr Merino Extrafine Cotton 120 – Pattern S8947

This free downloadable knitting pattern (S8947) from Schachenmayr guides knitters through the creation of a beautifully textured cushion cover worked in Schachenmayr Merino Extrafine Cotton 120, a DK-weight yarn. The finished piece combines multiple stitch patterns across a single knitted panel, producing a decorative cushion front with an integrated button band and buttonhole band for easy fastening. Rated as an intermediate difficulty project, this pattern is ideal for knitters who are comfortable reading chart-based stitch patterns and working cables and textured stitches simultaneously.

What Is Being Made

The pattern produces a single knitted cushion cover designed to be worked flat as one long panel. The panel incorporates a button band at one end and a buttonhole band at the other, allowing the cover to wrap around a cushion insert and fasten neatly with buttons. The overall construction is straightforward in concept but requires careful attention to stitch counts and pattern repeats across a wide fabric.

Construction and Structure

The cover begins by casting on 136 stitches using 3.5 mm needles. A button band of 15 rows (approximately 3.5 cm) is worked first in garter stitch (kraus rechts), beginning with a wrong-side row. During the final wrong-side row of this band, 16 stitches are increased evenly across the row by knitting into the bar between stitches (twisted make-one increases), bringing the total stitch count to 152 stitches.

The main body of the cushion cover is then worked on 4 mm needles across a carefully arranged sequence of stitch panels. After approximately 87 cm (274 rows) of the main pattern, the work transitions back to 3.5 mm needles for the buttonhole band, during which 16 stitches are decreased evenly to return to the original 136-stitch count.

Stitch Patterns Used

• Garter Stitch (Kraus rechts): Used for both the button band and the buttonhole band, garter stitch creates a firm, non-curling edge that is ideal for button fastenings. It is formed by knitting every row on both right and wrong sides.
• Large Seed/Moss Pattern (Großes Perlmuster): This textured stitch pattern appears in three separate panels across the main body — a 17-stitch panel on each outer edge and a 5-stitch panel between the cable sections. The large moss or seed pattern creates a subtle, bumpy texture that provides visual contrast against the cable panels.
• Cable Pattern A (Zopfmuster A): A 28-stitch cable panel, measuring approximately 9.5 cm wide, appears twice in the layout — once toward each side of the cushion front. Cable knitting involves crossing groups of stitches over one another using a cable needle, creating the characteristic twisted rope or braid appearance. The pattern transitions to the buttonhole band after completing a 10th pattern row of Zopfmuster A.
• Cable Pattern B (Zopfmuster B): A wider 50-stitch cable panel, measuring approximately 17 cm wide, sits centrally between the two repeats of Cable Pattern A. This larger cable motif forms the dramatic focal point of the cushion cover design.

Stitch Layout Across the Row

Once the increases are complete and the main body begins, each row is worked in the following order across all 152 stitches:

• Edge stitch
• 17 stitches – Large Seed Pattern
• 28 stitches – Cable Pattern A
• 5 stitches – Large Seed Pattern
• 50 stitches – Cable Pattern B
• 5 stitches – Large Seed Pattern
• 28 stitches – Cable Pattern A