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April 22, 2005
More on Phildar Cotton Jacket
Two weeks later...I'm 38+cm along. Wanna zoom in??
So, I've been working on my Phildar Cotton Jacket. The pattern is from the Spring 2003 Tendences magazine. My first time around knitting the back of the jacket didn't go as planned. I was WAY off gauge. The whole project calls for 17 skeins of Phildar Aviso. I had ordered (from Breiweb in the Netherlands -- good serive!) 19 skeins originally, however I've since ordered an additional 4 skeins (in the same dyelot) because I'm terrified of running out of yarn. This is one yarn hungry project. I can get two cable repeats on the back done (about 10 cm) with one ball of yarn. Extrapolating my yarn usage up, I figured that ordering some more yarn was a good idea.
The first time around, when I knit the back, my width was short of 50 cm by a cm or two. In theory, for the size that I am knitting, it should be 55 cm wide. That is why I frogged it. This time around, its 52 cm (when I do not try to stretch it at all). I feel ok with 52 cm, which is why I haven't frogged a second time. I'm about 1 to 2 rows short (in 10 cm) on the row gauge, but I'm not sweating that one!
The pattern says (for all sizes) knit the back straight until 38 cm are complete and then start the armhole decreases. I decided to give the back another repeat (~ 5 cm) before starting the armhole decreases. I obssessed a little about whether or not one pattern repeat was enough. I decided that yes, it was. Let's see how it turns out.
I've found since working on this complicated project I have little desire to work on my sockinette cardigan that I'm working on. It just seems so boring. I do however crave sockinette socks right now. Strange no?
Posted by loriz at April 22, 2005 05:44 AM