Damenjacke in Schachenmayr Trachetenwolle - 5416

Damenjacke in Schachenmayr Trachtenwolle – Free Knitting Pattern for a Women's Jacket

This free downloadable PDF pattern from Schachenmayr provides complete instructions for knitting a classic women's jacket (Damenjacke) worked in Schachenmayr Trachtenwolle, a worsted-weight yarn. The design features a structured silhouette with shaped side seams, armhole shaping, shoulder shaping, and a neckline, making it a rewarding project for knitters with intermediate to advanced experience. The jacket is worked in multiple pieces — back, left front, and right front — and assembled. A decorative ajour (lace) stripe adds an elegant, traditional detail to the front panels, giving the jacket a distinctly Alpine or Trachten-inspired character.

Garment Overview

The pattern covers a single women's jacket design offered in three sizes, with stitch counts and row counts clearly differentiated throughout the instructions. The finished garment features a garter stitch border (Bündchen) at the lower edge, smooth stockinette fabric for the main body, and a vertical lace stripe panel on the front pieces. The jacket includes side shaping, armhole shaping, shoulder shaping, and neckline shaping, all worked with precise decreases and increases at defined intervals.

Back Panel (Rückenteil)

The back is cast on and worked with a garter stitch cuff (Bündchen) of approximately 8 rows (around 2 cm). The main body continues in smooth stockinette stitch (glatt rechts) in the colorway Sisal mel. Side shaping is achieved through symmetrical increases on both edges, beginning in the 9th, 11th, or 9th row above the cuff depending on size, with one stitch increased on each side, followed by four further increase rows every 10th or 12th row, bringing the stitch count to 94 / 102 / 110 stitches across the three sizes.

Armhole shaping begins after 24.5 / 23 / 21.5 cm (66 / 62 / 58 rows) above the cuff, with 4 stitches bound off on each side, followed by decreases every right-side row: once 3 stitches, once 2 stitches, and three times 1 stitch on each edge, reducing to 70 / 78 / 86 stitches. After a total height of 44.5 cm (120 rows) above the cuff, shoulder shaping begins with simultaneous bind-offs on both sides: first 5 / 7 / 8 stitches, then three times 6 / 6 / 7 stitches every right-side row. At the same time, the neckline is shaped by binding off the central 14 / 18 / 18 stitches and decreasing 3 stitches then 2 stitches on each side every right-side row. The total finished height of the back is 48.5 cm.

Left Front Panel (Linkes Vorderteil)

The left front is cast on with 43 / 47 / 50 stitches in the colorway Holz mel and begins with the same 8-row garter stitch cuff (approximately 2 cm). The main body is then worked with an edge stitch, followed by 30 / 34 / 37 stitches in stockinette, an 8-stitch ajour (lace) stripe, 3 stitches in stockinette, and a final edge stitch. This combination creates the decorative vertical lace panel that is characteristic of the design.

Side shaping on the right edge mirrors the back panel increases, bringing the stitch count to 48 / 52 / 55 stitches. After 6 cm (16 rows) above the cuff, a pocket opening (Tascheneingriff) is introduced, worked across a defined range of stitches — from the 7th to the 26th stitch in the smaller sizes, and from the 11th to the 31st stitch in larger sizes — indicating an integrated pocket detail as part of the front panel construction