Lavender jacket

Lavender is the it-colour this spring. Lucky for us we made a lavender yarn-scoop a few months back. This practically assembly-free jacket is really thick and warm, and we’re planning to use it as a spring coat when the Norwegian Winter’s leaving town. It’s knitted using the brioche stitch, making it really stretchy and fitted.

What you need:
9 mm circular needles
9 balls of Hubro (or similar yarn)
2-3 balls of Vivaldi (or similar).
You can knit the jacket without the mohair.

How we did it:
Body piece:
Cast on 80 stitches using one thread of each yarn. Knit back and forth.

Knit 5 rows of garter stitch. Slip the first stitch of each row.

Now it’s time to start the brioche stitch. Knit the four first and the four last stitches of each row using the garter stitch. These stitches will be your front bands when the jacket is complete. If you want buttons, you need to make button wholes as you knit. We didn’t want buttons.

Row 1: Slip 1, K3, *K1, yarn over, slip 1* Repeat from *to* until 4 stitches remain. K4.
Row 2: Slip 1, K3, *Knit 2 together (the YO and the slipped stitch from the previous row), yarn over, slip1*
Continue from *to* until 4 stitches remain, K4.

Continue the brioche stitch as done in row 2 until the body piece measures 37 cm (or more if you want a longer jacket). It’s time to start knitting the different pieces separately: 2 front pieces and one back piece.

Start on the front piece where the thread is. IMPORTANT: All the pieces need to start from this side to maintain the right technique.

First front piece:
*Slip 1, K3, 21 stitches brioche, turn, 21 stitches brioche, K4, turn*
Continue to knit from * to * until the total length of the body piece is 58 cm. Cast off loosely, except for the 4 front band stitches. Put these on a thread.

Back piece:
Knit the brioche stitch over the next 66 stitches. Continue until the total length is 60 cm. Cast off loosely.

Second front piece, start from the armpit.
* 21 stitches brioche, K4, turn, slip 1, K3, 21 stitches brioche, turn *
Repeat from * to * until the total length is 58 cm.
Cast off loosely, but leave the 4 stitches for the front band on the needle.

Sew the shoulders together. Yes, the opening in the middle is for your neck.
To finish the front bands, make one extra stitch in the end facing the piece. Work another 11 cm, and leave the stitches on the needle. Repeat on the other side. Assemble the two ends using the Kitcheners stitch., or sew together. Sew the neckline to the back of the neck.

Sleeves:
Pick up 43 stitches around the armpit. Do it as evenly as you can.
Knit the sleeves back and forth. Start from under the armpit.

Row 1: * K1, yarn over, slip 1. Repeat from * to *.
Row 2: * Yarn over, slip 1, knit two together. Repeat this technique from * to * until the length is 28 cm.
At the same time: Cast off 1 stitch in each end of the row when the work is 14, 18 and 22 cm = In total 6 stitches. When casting off the brioche stitch you need to knit together three stitches: The one knitted in the previous row, the one you slipped in the previous row and the yarn over from the previous row. The best is to cast off when the row starts with a single stitch.

When you have reached the desired length of 28 cm you knit three and three together for one row. Knit the garter stitch for 5 rows, and cast off loosely.

Knit the other sleeve the same way. Sew the sleeves together.
And there you go, your very own Lavender jacket!

This is a free jacket knitting pattern from pickles.no. We’ll be thrilled if you use it. Please link to us if you do;)

Comments

[Judith]

I love the pattern but I am unfamiliar with this yarn. There is no gauge so substituting yarn will be difficult.

[pickles]

Judith, we googled Hubro for you and you can have a look at this page for details: http://www.gotyarn.com/detail.cfm?ID=2940 It says it is an economical substitute for Rowan Big Wool.

You can use any kind of thin mohair to go with, or just leave it out.

[Trish]

I just found your amazing site from sknitter.com - wow! I can't wait to see what's next. I just love this jacket!

[martha]

i want to make this jacket for my daughter and myself but i could not get it to print - just pages with everything but the pattern! what am i doing wrong?

martha

[pickles]

Perhaps you could copy the text into a word document? It´s probably a programming issue. We are using a blog tool, and can´t change this feature. Hope you can fix it with copy paste!!

[marie]

begynner nå på jakke nr. to!!! i ROSA!!!

[Elaine]

Hi, love this jacket...did you use (9) 50 or 100 gr. balls of Hubro? I'm assuming 100 gr. but just wanted to check. Thanks!

[pickles]

Yes, that`s 100 g balls Elaine.

[Catherine]

Hi,
Is it one size fits all? I am mostly interested in a size small. What is the gauge? It is a beautiful jacket. Thanks for letting me know.
Have a good day!

Catherine from www.fraisedesbois-edelweiss.blogspot.com

[Olivia]

Hi,
I absolutely love this jacket but on reading the pattern I have a question. It's unclear as to where you stopped using the Vivaldi yarn - please could you clarify?
Thanks so much

[pickles]

Hi Olivia, the whole jacket is knitted with two strands of yarn, one Hubro and one Vivaldi.

[Sherri]

Hi! I love this sweater & it is very similar to one my daughter saw at a boutique & wanted but was waayyy to expensive ... can you tell me what size this makes?

[pickles]

It is a size small;)

[Sara]

Hi. I'm working on your fabolous jacket now. I've gotten to the part where I'm supposed to start the first front piece.

"Start on the front piece where the thread is. IMPORTANT: All the pieces need to start from this side to maintain the right technique.

First front piece:
*Slip 1, K3, 21 stitches brioche, turn, 21 stitches brioche, K4, turn*"

I'm unfamiliar with the brioche stitch, first time I've used it. I'm just wondering what you mean by "21 stitches brioche". Does the yarn over, slip count as one stitch? Or is it just the "real" stitches when you knit the yarn over and slipped stitch from the previous row that count? Hope you understand what I mean, it makes quite a difference counting/not counting the yarn over stitches. :)

[pickles]

Hi!
We understand your question. We have counted the YO as a stitch, not just the "real" stitches. Just count all the stitches of the enitre jacket to see that you get it correctly. 25 in the front, 60 in the back, and 25 in the front again.

[Sara]

Hmm. What do I do if I don't have enough stitches? I started with 80 stitches garter stitch and then started the brioche stitch for about 37 centimetres. (That's right, isn't it?) Now when I've taken 25 stitches for the first front piece I've only got 51 left, for both the back piece and the second front piece. How did that happen?! I don't get it... Do you have any idea on how to solve it? Is it only to start over?

[pickles]

We have counted the YO as a stitch, perhaps you haven´t?

[Sara]

I did count the YO stitches.

This is what it looks like now: http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/7426/img0530m.jpg

The finished front piece is 21 stitches brioche (counting the YO) + the four garter stitches =25 stitches. To the left I'm supposed to have 60 stitches (counting the YO) for the back piece. Plus 25 for the second front piece. Right? The thing is that I've only got 51 + the four garter stitches. What have I done wrong? It's the first time I'm making a jacket so sorry for all of my questions...

[pickles]

Hi Sara, did you also count the stitches you slipped?

It looks as though you will have to unravel the first front piece, but the rest looks right to us.

Try to divide the piece into the three pieces and place markers before you start to knit. That might help.. Good luck:)

[Olivia]

Hi again,

I have a question about the turn once you get to working the pieces separately. I used instructions from briochestitch.com which told me to: 'work in patt
ending with a yf sl1yo, leave yarn in
front, turn work, yarn is now hanging
in back, slip st and its yo pwise,
yf sl1yo, brk1...'
This worked fine until I reached the turning point for the second time where there are now two crossed stitches in a row and no stitch to pick up in between. It means I can't follow the instructions to end with a 'yf sl1yo'. I'm a bit confused - can you help at all?
Thank you

[pickles]

Hmmm. Not sure I understand. We didn´t always end with a yo, you can just as easy end with knitting the "cross" together. It should be fine.

[Olivia]

Sorry, I'll try and be a bit clearer! This method of turning (the only one I know for short rows in brioche stitch) leaves me with two crossed stitches to knit just before the second turn - there is no single stitch in between that I would usually slip. That's my first problem. My second problem is that I'm not sure how to turn in brioche without ending the row with a yf and slip stitch.

[pickles]

If you have single stitch at the end, we just slipped it with the yarn in front and turned. Hold on to your yo, and knit the first two stitches or "cross". This cross is the single stitch and the yo you made at the end of the row. It might feel funny, but you will just use the end stitches to pick up stitches for the arms anyways.

good luck!

[Olivia]

Ok, I think I've figured something out - it's making a relatively neat edge anyway so that's better than I was getting earlier! I'm not sure if it's exactly what you meant but it works for now :)
Thanks for the help

[elif]

Hi, thanks for the lovely pattern.
I have tried to knit this but it came out way too small.
How many cast-on stitches would you suggest for a medium size?