Odin LIttle Jacket - Knitting Pattern for Babies in Debbie Bliss Baby Cashmerino

Odin Little Jacket – Knitting Pattern for Babies by Debbie Bliss

The Odin Little Jacket is a charming baby knitting pattern designed by Debbie Bliss, one of the most respected names in hand-knitting design. This downloadable PDF pattern produces a neat, structured little jacket sized for babies, making it an ideal project for knitters looking to create a thoughtful handmade gift or a wardrobe staple for a new arrival.

What Is Being Made

This pattern creates a small baby jacket or coat — a classic, wearable garment designed to keep little ones warm and stylishly dressed. As a piece in the coats and jackets category, the Odin Little Jacket is intended to be worn as an outer layer, combining practicality with the refined aesthetic that Debbie Bliss patterns are known for. The finished garment is knitted in Debbie Bliss Baby Cashmerino, a beloved yarn in the Debbie Bliss range.

Yarn and Materials

The specified yarn for this pattern is Debbie Bliss Baby Cashmerino, a sport weight yarn celebrated for its exceptionally soft handle, making it perfectly suited to garments worn against a baby's delicate skin. Baby Cashmerino is a blend that typically combines merino wool with a touch of cashmere and microfibre, resulting in a yarn that is gentle, warm, and machine washable — highly practical for baby garments. Its sport weight classification means it knits up at a relatively fine gauge, producing a smooth, lightweight fabric with excellent stitch definition.

Knitters will require knitting needles appropriate to the sport weight gauge specified in the pattern. As with all Debbie Bliss patterns, it is strongly recommended to knit a tension swatch before beginning to ensure the finished jacket matches the intended sizing.

Techniques Used

Rated as an intermediate difficulty project, the Odin Little Jacket is best suited to knitters who are comfortable moving beyond basic knit-and-purl construction and are ready to work with shaping, garment assembly, and more structured stitch patterns. The pattern is written in UK terminology, with US equivalents provided in round brackets throughout, making it accessible to knitters on both sides of the Atlantic.

• Casting on – forming a foundation row of loops on the needle to begin each piece of the jacket
• Casting off (binding off) – finishing edges to prevent unravelling, including casting off in ribbing to maintain pattern continuity at cuffs or borders
• Increasing – adding stitches to shape the garment, using methods such as kfb (knit into the front and back of a stitch), pfb (purl into the front and back), and m1 (make one, lifting the strand between stitches and working into the back of it)
• Decreasing – reducing stitch counts for shaping, using techniques including skpo (slip 1, knit 1, pass slipped stitch over), sk2togpo (slip 1, knit 2 together, pass slipped stitch over), and s2togkpo (slip 2 stitches together, knit 1, pass 2 slipped stitches over)
• Picking up and knitting – working into loops along an edge to create neat bands, borders, or button bands
• Picking up and purling – purling into edge loops where required for shaping or finishing
• Working from a pattern repeat – following structured stitch sequences across rows
• Garment assembly – joining the knitted pieces to construct the finished jacket

Stitches Used

The pattern draws on a selection of classic knitting stitches and stitch structures, consistent with the refined style of Debbie Bliss baby knitwear:

• Garter stitch – achieved by knitting every row, creating a ridged, reversible fabric often used for borders, cuffs, or body sections in baby garments due to its natural elasticity and flat-lying edges
• Moss stitch (seed stitch) – worked by alternating knit and purl stitches across the row and offsetting them on subsequent