Matinee Coat, Angel Top, Cardigan and Blanket in King Cole Chunky - 4848 - Downloadable PDF

Matinee Coat, Angel Top, Cardigan and Blanket in King Cole Chunky – Pattern 4848

King Cole pattern 4848 is a downloadable PDF knitting pattern offering four classic baby and infant designs in one leaflet: a Matinee Coat, an Angel Top, a Cardigan, and a Blanket. All four pieces are knitted in King Cole Chunky weight yarn, making them quick to work up while producing beautifully cosy results for newborns and young babies. Sizes range from 36 cm to 56 cm (14 in to 22 in), covering a generous span of infant chest measurements. The pattern is rated advanced, making it best suited to knitters who are comfortable with shaping, stitch pattern repeats, and working multiple garment pieces.

About the Designs

Matinee Coat

The Matinee Coat is a traditional long-line baby jacket, a timeless garment that has been a staple of handknitted layette sets for generations. It is worked in pieces — a Back, a Left Front, and a Right Front — which are then seamed together. The body fabric is created using a smock stitch pattern, a decorative textured stitch that gives the coat its characteristic heirloom appearance. The smock pattern is worked over a repeat and combines yarn-forward increases with slip-stitch decreases to create the gathered, honeycomb-like effect associated with traditional smocking in knitting.

The coat begins with a garter stitch border at the cast-on edge, providing a neat, non-curling hem. Shaping is worked at the neck and shoulders, with stitches placed on a holder at the centre front neck and decreases worked at the neck edge to create a smooth, fitted neckline. Shoulder stitches are cast off once the correct depth is reached.

• Stitch pattern: Smock pattern (yarn forward, knit, slip 1, K1, psso, K2tog combinations), garter stitch border
• Tension: 18 sts and 20 rows to 10 cm (4 in) over smock pattern on 6 mm needles
• Techniques: Neck shaping, shoulder shaping, stitch holders, working from right side and wrong side

Angel Top

The Angel Top is a lightweight, open-fronted baby garment traditionally worn over other clothing for extra warmth. Like the Matinee Coat, it draws on classic layette design traditions and is worked in King Cole Chunky yarn for a soft, substantial fabric. The Angel Top is likely worked in the same smock or textured stitch pattern as the coat, continuing the coordinated aesthetic of the set. Its open-front construction makes it easy to put on and take off a young baby, and the chunky weight yarn ensures the finished garment is warm without being heavy.

• Stitch pattern: Smock pattern and/or stocking stitch
• Techniques: Front opening shaping, neck shaping, seaming

Cardigan

The Cardigan is a more fitted, traditional baby jacket worked in stocking stitch, providing a smooth, classic fabric that contrasts with the textured smock pattern of the coat. Stocking stitch is achieved by knitting on right-side rows and purling on wrong-side rows, and at the tension given — 14 sts and 20 rows to 10 cm (4 in) over stocking stitch on 6 mm needles — it produces a neat, even fabric well suited to a baby garment. The cardigan features standard baby jacket construction with separate front and back pieces, sleeve shaping, and neck finishing. Button bands or borders are typically included to complete the front opening.

• Stitch pattern: Stocking stitch (st-st), garter stitch borders
• Tension: 14 sts and 20 rows to 10 cm (4 in) over stocking stitch on 6 mm needles
• Techniques: Armhole shaping, neck shaping, shoulder cast-off, seaming

Blanket

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