• Jen, seen from a 3/4 angle, smiles at the camera. She wears a light pink knit jacket, designed with a moss stitch pattern and featuring knit plackets around the zipper.
  • Seen close up, Jen wears a Letters from the Open Road jacket, partially unzipped. The jacket is knit from light pink yarn in a moss stitch design, and has purple, green, orange, and pink plackets around the zipper.
  • Jen wears a light pink jacket, knit with a high collar and a gold zipper, and smiles at the camera. Four plackets in various colors surround the zipper.
  • Seen close up, Jen unzips the gold zipper of a light pink jacket. Four plackets, knit in purple, green, orange, and pink yarn, surround the zipper.
  • Jen, hands in the pockets of a blue skirt, wears a light pink moss stitch jacket. The jacket features a gold zipper, with multi-colored plackets around the zipper band.
  • Folded on a tabletop, a moss stitch sweater with multi-colored plackets features a high collar and a gold zipper.
  • Seen from the shoulder down, Jen unzips a light pink, moss stitch sweater. The sweater has four plackets, knit with purple, orange, green, and pink plackets, and a high collar.
  • Jen holds open a folded Letters from the Open Road jacket, showing the inside of the plackets knit around the zippers.
  • Jen, leaning against a window frame and looking off camera, wears a blue skirt with a hand knit, light pink jacket. The jacket features four plackets around a gold zipper, with a high collar.
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Letters From the Open Road

Letters From the Open Road

$9.00 USD
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Letters From the Open Road - a bespoke and sophisticated jacket knitting pattern

Whether you lean towards sassy athleisure or moto-jacket sophisticated, Letters from the Open Road will absolutely showcase your talents. As a friend of mine put it, “that’s a bit of a flex, then, isn’t it?” And YES! it definitely is.

This bespoke jacket is packed with thoughtful details: more ease in the front than the back, sewn tubular bind-offs, and a self-facing hem and collar. The allover seersucker stitch adds texture and warmth, elevated by welted zipper plackets worked in slipped stitches. This pattern includes step-by-step instructions for zipper installation, including a video and a zipper supplement with lots of photos.

Download the full schematic here.

Credits

Tech edit: Boann Petersen
Photography: Hypnotic Imagery, LLC
​Model: Jennifer Parroccini
Testers: Soda, Maria, Lea, Molly, Zofie, Colette, Cornelia, Fiona, Annamaria, Elizabeth Margaret, Asli, Shari

Craft

Knitting

Size Chart

Women's

Construction

Letters From the Open Road is worked in pieces from the bottom up. You’ll work the fronts and back first, then seam them together. Stitches are picked up on either side of the front and the welted zipper plackets are worked by slipping stitches. Stitches are picked up and knit for the hem and the collar, which are finished with an optional tubular bind-off. The zipper is sewn in by hand (using a sewing machine is not recommended). Sleeves are knit flat and seamed, and then set in.

Sizing

• 10 sizes to fit a full bust size of 28 (32, 36, 40) [44, 48, 52] (56, 60, 64, 68) inches / 71 (81, 91.5, 101.5) [112, 122, 132] (142, 152.5, 162.5, 173) cm

Yarn

Sprinkled Fibers 2 Ply Fingering, 80% Superwash Merino, 20% nylon, 463 yards per 100g skein

Yardage

Length A:
• 2715 (2955, 3220, 3495) (3760, 3990, 4245) (4525, 4825, 5030) yards
• 2715 (2955, 3220, 3495) (3760, 3990, 4245) (4525, 4825, 5030) meters
• 6 (7, 7, 8) (9, 9, 10) (10, 11, 11) skeins

Length B:
• 3005 (3290, 3600, 3920) (4230, 4495, 4790) (5115, 5455, 5695) yards
• 2750 (3005, 3295, 3585) (3865, 4110, 4380) (4675, 4990, 5210) meters
• 7 (8, 8, 9) (10, 10, 11) (12, 12, 13) skeins

​Length C:
• 3315 (3640, 4005, 4365) (4720, 5025, 5365) (5735, 6120, 6400) yards
• 3030 (3330, 3660, 3995) (4315, 4595, 4905) (5245, 5595, 5850) meters
• 8 (8, 9, 10) (11, 11, 12) (13, 14, 14) skeins

4 Contrasting colors, each
• Length A: 65 yds
• Length B: 70 yds
• Length C: 90 yds

Gauge

28 sts and 40 rows over 4 inches / 10 cm in Seersucker Stitch with yarn held double and size A needles.

Needles and Notions

• Needle Size A: US size 3 / 3.25 mm
• Needle Size B: US size 2 / 2.75 mm, or one size smaller than size A.
• Needle Size C: US size 1 / 2.25 mm, or two sizes smaller than size A.
• Stitch markers (optional)
• Tapestry needle
• Smooth waste yarn in contrasting color for the tubular cast-on (optional)
• Spare DPN
• Cable needle
• Sewing needle and cotton thread
• Straight pins
• Separating jacket zipper (instructions are given for 20, 24 and 28 inch / 50, 60 and 70 cm zippers)

Special Techniques

• Working directional increases and decreases
• Working a sloped bind-off (optional)
• Working a tubular cast-on (optional)
• Picking up and working stitches
• Sewing a tubular bind-off (optional)
• Handsewing (for the zipper)
• Seaming
• Recognizing a knit and purl on the needle

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