Moss St Blazer - Jacket Knitting Pattern for Kids in Debbie Bliss Eco Baby by Debbie Bliss

Moss St Blazer – Kids' Jacket Knitting Pattern by Debbie Bliss in Eco Baby Yarn

The Moss St Blazer is a children's jacket knitting pattern designed by Debbie Bliss, worked in her signature Debbie Bliss Eco Baby yarn. This smartly styled kids' blazer combines a classic tailored silhouette with the charming texture of moss stitch, making it an ideal intermediate-level project for knitters who are comfortable with shaping, seaming, and working buttonholes. The finished garment has a refined, structured look suitable for special occasions or everyday wear, with a neat garter stitch front edging that frames the textured body beautifully.

What Is Being Made

This pattern produces a seamed, flat-knitted children's blazer-style jacket, available in multiple sizes to fit growing kids. The design features a structured front opening with buttons, shaped fronts and back, and a collar or neckband finish. The two-colour detail — a main shade and a contrast — adds a subtle, sophisticated accent to the overall design, reminiscent of classic tailoring translated into knitwear.

Yarn and Materials

• Main yarn: Debbie Bliss Eco Baby in Stone — 8 (9, 10) x 50g balls required depending on size
• Contrast yarn: Debbie Bliss Eco Baby in Ecru — 1 x 50g ball
• Needles: A pair of 3.25mm (US 3) knitting needles, or size needed to achieve correct tension
• Additional needles: A set of double-pointed 3.25mm (US 3) needles and a 3.25mm (US 3) circular needle are also required, likely for collar, neckband, or edging sections
• Notions: Buttons for the front opening

Debbie Bliss Eco Baby is a sport weight yarn, making it lightweight and ideal for children's garments. Its fine gauge produces a crisp stitch definition that allows the moss stitch texture to show beautifully, while remaining soft and comfortable against a child's skin.

Techniques Used

• Worked flat: The pieces of this blazer are knitted flat, meaning each section — such as the right front, left front, and back — is worked back and forth in rows rather than in the round, giving the knitter full control over shaping and stitch pattern placement.
• Seamed construction: Once all pieces are complete, the garment is assembled using seaming techniques, which contribute to the structured, tailored finish characteristic of a blazer style.
• Buttonholes: The front band incorporates worked buttonholes to accommodate the button closure, requiring careful placement and execution to align neatly with corresponding buttons on the opposite front band.
• Buttons: Buttons are sewn onto the completed front band to finish the closure, adding a polished, garment-quality detail.
• Shaping: The pattern includes standard garment shaping for armholes, neckline, and fronts, typical of intermediate-level jacket construction.

Stitches Used

• Moss stitch (seed stitch): The primary stitch pattern used across the body of the blazer. Moss stitch is created by alternating knit and purl stitches across the row and then offsetting them on the following row, so that knit stitches sit above purls and vice versa. This produces a beautifully textured, non-curling fabric that is ideal for jackets and structured garments. The pattern sets up the moss stitch with the instruction: K2, [p1, k1] to last sts, establishing the rhythm across the right front from the very first row.
• Garter stitch front edging: A garter stitch border runs along the front opening edges, created by knitting every row. Garter stitch lies flat naturally and provides a firm, tidy edge — a classic finishing technique for jacket fronts. The pattern explicitly notes that these 2 rows form the moss st with garter st front edging, confirming