Rowan Estonian Floral Jacket

Rowan Estonian Floral Jacket

Jacket designed by Richard Rutt for Rowan, and offered as a free pattern in the Sunday Times magazine in 1984.

Cover of Rowan Estonial Floral Jacket leaflet. Bishop of Leicester sitting on a chair wearing the jacket. THere is a colour motif blanked and a pair of gloves on the seat beside him and a mitre near his legs.
Image credit: Susan Raven, The Sunday Times Magazine and Richard Dudley-Smith

Richard Rutt wrote ‘A History of Hand Knitting’ (1987) and is shown wearing this jacket on the book’s dust jacket. He was the Bishop of Leicester from 1979 to 1980 and was well-known as the ‘knitting bishop’. For may years, he was President of the Knitting & Crochet Guild, and after he died in 2011, Rowan kindly gave the Guild permission to make copies of the pattern, in his memory.

Yarn: This pattern uses two types of yarn in a single garment.

  • Rowan Yarns Chunky Tweed: 100g of each of 6 six colours, 300g of one other
  • Rowan Yarns Cotton Chenille: 400g of one colour, 100g of another.

Size: Chest/bust in Medium (up to 96 cm / 38 in) and Large (up to 112 cm / 44 in).

Gauge/tension: 1 stitches and 17½ rows to 10 cm using 6mm (UK 4) needles.

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