The legendary Mademoiselle Coco has always been inspired by men's wardrobe. She was the first to put on a men's vest and pants, while the ladies continued to lose consciousness from a lack of air in tight corsets. It was the men's jacket that became the prototype of her signature jacket. Chanel sought to make luxury affordable, and she succeeded. An innate sense of taste allowed her to make surprisingly elegant things from simple available fabrics and materials.
It is in our power to arm ourselves with knitting needles and yarn and master knitting in the Chanel style.
Jacket Chanel
What is a classic from Chanel? This is a shortened single-breasted jacket, originally black, with a white trim. The design assumes complete comfort: sleeve length - ¾, semi-adjacent silhouette, no collar, soft comfortable fabric. The design embodies elegance and style - contrasting piping along the neck, lapels and sleeves, patch pockets, gold buttons with the Chanel logo. From the inside, a thin chain was launched along the bottom of the product and the edges of the shelf. She helped a soft jacket to keep fit and was a trademark distinguishing mark.
What is required
The classic Chanel jacket is made of tweed. This is a motley fleece fabric. Chanel style knitting is best done with tweed yarn. It contains blotches of a different shade, and sometimes composition, so the knitted fabric accurately repeats the texture of tweed. Modern yarn is soft and comfortable to wear, despite the high content of wool.
Many well-known manufacturers of knitting yarns have tweed in stock. These are Italian BBB and Rowan, Peruvian Michell, Swiss Lang Seta and many others.
Also, for work, you need knitting needles that are suitable in size to the chosen yarn, a hook for finishing and accessories: buttons and, if desired, a chain.
For size 44-46 you will need:
- 600-700 g of the main color yarn;
- 50-100 g of yarn in a contrasting color for decoration;
- 2 to 5 buttons, depending on the model of the jacket;
- 2-3 m of the chain.
When the choice of yarn and accessories is made, you can start knitting. Schemes and a description of the work will be next.
Take measurements
Before you make a pattern, you need to take measurements:
- Hip circumference (OB).
- Product Length (CI). Measured from the seventh cervical vertebra in the middle of the back to the desired length.
- Sleeve Length (DR). Measure from the shoulder point (where the shoulder seam usually passes, to the desired length). Chanel-style cardigans knitting suggests sleeve length ¾, although it can be arbitrary.
- Armhole height (VP). Measured along the back, parallel to the spine, from the base of the neck from the shoulder to the armpit.
We are building a pattern
On a graph paper , build a rectangle whose height is DI and its width is ½ OB. This is the back of the jacket.
Divide the top side of the rectangle into three parts. Mark the points with letters A and B. Line AB will be the neckline. Measure 2 cm on the sides of the rectangle from top to bottom, put points C and D. Draw segments AC and BD, these are shoulder bevels. Round off the neck a little.
Jacket shelves are built identically to the back, only it needs to be cut exactly in the middle. Duplicate the points with the letters A 1 , B 1 , C 1 , D 1 . Mark the middle of the side with point E and E 1 on the other half. Connect points B and E, A and E 1 . Draw a round neck.
Sleeves are rectangles, the length of which is equal to DR, and the width is VP × 2.
Having finished with the pattern, you can start knitting. Schemes and descriptions can be found in any magazine for needlewomen. Consider the simplest and at the same time effective option.
Knit a jacket
Before starting work, knit a sample on which you will calculate the number of loops.
Chanel-style knitting needles start from the back. Dial the desired number of loops, based on their calculations patterns.
Chanel style knitting does not imply one specific pattern for cardigans. However, one of the most suitable and very simple in execution is "rice". This is an alternation of the front and back loops in the front row. In the wrong side, the front loops fit the wrong ones, and vice versa. The texture is embossed, and in combination with tweed yarn even more imitates the fabric we need. Do not forget about the edge loops: the first one is always removed without knitting, the last one is knitted inside out. On the shoulder bevels, make a decrease by knitting two loops together at the beginning of each facial row.
Also follow the shelves and sleeves. Increases are made by knotting from one loop of two. Two patch pockets can be connected, they will be two squares with trim on top of a contrasting color.
Next, we assemble the product. We sew the shoulder and side seams of the jacket, sleeves, connect them together in the armhole.
Now we are tying the bottom, sides, sleeves and pockets with contrasting yarn with a hook. Without this signature accent, Chanel-style knitting would not be recognizable. We knit the first row with a single crochet, the next one with a single crochet, repeat the first and second row to the desired edging width, finish next to the single crochet.
We knit loops on one side, sew buttons to the other.
On the inside of the bottom of the product manually sew the chain.
Stylish new thing is ready!