I've been busy working on my Raspberry Blaze. The above picture was taken after I had worked part of the second repeat of the chart and had just placed the project on longer cable needles. I took another picture after I finished the second repeat.
I started out with 108 stitches. After the first repeat I doubled that to 216 stitches. The second repeat doubled that again to 432 stitches. I'm working on the third repeat, which is going to get me to 864 stitches. Yikes! I had to join two cables from my Addi clicks to get this far. I order some longer size 7 needles - 40 and 47 inch cables - as I don't like working something like this on interchangeables because I'm always afraid they'll come undone. I just transferred the work to the 47 inch cables and realize that I need a longer cable.
The second repeat didn't take as much yarn as I thought it would - only about 100 grams, instead of 120 grams - which gives me more breathing room on my yarn amounts. I did manage to score another skein from The Loopy Ewe. I went out to their web site on Saturday to see if they still had some and they had one skein left. I took a chance and ordered it and I received it today and it is the same dyelot. Sometimes things just work out.
Pattern: Ocean Blue Collar by Eline Oftedal, modified to be a capelet
Yarn: Dream in Color Classy in Raspberry Blaze
Needle: US 7 (4.5 mm)
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