Rumo Take 2 - Body Done!

The second time around things definitely went faster, but I still managed to get distracted and make mistakes that caused me to rip back.  I am much happier with the fit, however, knitting a larger size means that I’m going to have to get creative with my yarn usage.  I have 4 skeins of the dark color, and 2 skeins of the light.  They were dyed to go together, so there is no issue there.  I had already planned to work the lapel in the light color, but I also know that I will not have enough of the dark color to work the sleeves.  My preferred method of working sleeves is top-down set-in, and if this jacket was being knit up in stockinette stitch I would have no issues whatsoever.  This jacket, however, is worked in garter stitch, including the sleeves, so figuring out how to work garter stitch sleeves top-down and set-in is going to take some pondering and some trial and error.

Pattern:  Rumo by Alice Caetano 

Yarn:  SpaceCadet Yarns Cressida

Needle:  US 6 (4.0 mm)

 

Hearthside Crochet Along - Clue 6 Done

I finished up Clue 6 on August 7, also just in time for a drawing.  Rather than go upstairs to take the photo I just put it down on the carpet in the living room, and our new cat, Jezebel, promptly photobombed.  She is our ghost ninja kitty.  When we brought her home she disappeared and we didn’t see her for a couple of days.  Turns out she was hanging out in the drop ceiling over my husband’s study in the basement.  We brought her home on a Wednesday, and she showed herself to me on Friday while I was downstairs exercising.  It took a while for her to come out of her shell, but I think she feels pretty comfortable now.  She is a talker.

I already have the yarn for clue 7

Pattern:  Hearthside by Jane Vanselous

Yarn:  Expression Fiber Arts Luster Worsted

Hook:  H (5.0 mm)

Perseverance Knit Along - Clue 6 Done

I finished up Clue 6 back on July 29, but I’ve been busy working on a test knit.  I barely finished it up in time to enter the drawing.  I already have the yarn for clue 7, which is just more of the clue 6 pattern, so I suspect that the second half will be a mirror image of the first half.

Pattern:  Perseverance by Jane Vanselous

Yarn:  Expression Fiber Arts Enduring Worsted

Needle:  US 6 (4.0 mm), US 7 (4.5 mm), US 8 (5 mm)

Rumo Take 2 - Back Done

After finishing up the body and most of one sleeve I decided that I really needed to go up a size, or two.  The body fit, but the sleeve was super tight.  In the end I went up two sizes.  The right back went smoothly, but I think I must have gotten over-confident on the left back, or maybe I just wasn’t paying attention, as I made several mistakes that caused me to rip back.  I did come up with a good technique for working the three needle bind off to join the right and left backs together.  I used a crochet hook, inserted into the stitch on the front needle knitwise and on the back needle purlwise, pulling both loops off onto the crochet hook, then wrapped the yarn and pulled it through both loops.  Once I had worked the first stitch I pulled the yarn through all three loops on the hook.  It worked well and made it easy to keep the working yarn between the two needles.

Pattern:  Rumo by Alice Caetano

Yarn:  SpaceCadet Cressida

Needle:  US 6 (4.0 mm)