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Yorlin Short Summer version
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Done! Washed and wet-blocked it looks much tidier and makes a nice contrast with my red woolen dress.
Done! Washed and wet-blocked it looks much tidier and makes a nice contrast with my red woolen dress.
Finished, but still needs washing and blocking. Will look nicer with the red wool dress I wanted to wear it with!
Finished, but still needs washing and blocking. Will look nicer with the red wool dress I wanted to wear it with!
Have finished the first button band and picked out the buttons - antique glass ones from before the first world war. My husband gave them to me about 30 years ago and they've been waiting for the right project.
Have finished the first button band and picked out the buttons - antique glass ones from before the first world war. My husband gave them to me about 30 years ago and they've been waiting for the right project.
This is right at the end of the third ball of yarn. I'm feeling better about being able to finish with 8 balls total
This is right at the end of the third ball of yarn. I'm feeling better about being able to finish with 8 balls total
Progress after 1 skein
Progress after 1 skein
Milarrochy Tweed is the perfect yarn for a felted join. It just looks like one of the thicker sections of the yarn.
Milarrochy Tweed is the perfect yarn for a felted join. It just looks like one of the thicker sections of the yarn.
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Finished
June 24, 2023
December 27, 2023

Yorlin Short Summer version

Project info
Yorlin by Kate Davies Designs
Knitting
Sweater → Cardigan
3rd but at different gauge to get a larger size
Needles & yarn
US 4 - 3.5 mm
US 5 - 3.75 mm
24 stitches and 32 rows = 4 inches
KDD & Co (Kate Davies Designs) Milarrochy Tweed
218 yards in stash
9 skeins = 981.0 yards (897.0 meters), 225 grams
Cowslip
L911
Yellow
Notes

I only have 8 balls of this, but I want to make a cropped version with 3/4 length sleeves, so I think I can eke it out…
Decided to knit at the same gauge as I did for my Treit, which had a great hand.
I’m thinking I’ll need 2.5 balls for the top, 2.5 for the body. then one ball apiece for the sleeves and the final ball for the button band and neck. Fingers crossed!

Divided for the sleeves and knit 1” of the body before finishing with the 3rd ball. Feeling much better about the yarn quantity now.

12-16-2023 cuffs and button bands in different dyelot

In the end, I decided that I really wanted the arms to be longer so I ordered two more balls of cowslip to knit the ribbing and the button bands. So, I took the 8th ball of the original dyelot and made the sleeves as long as I could (proper 3/4 length for my long arms is 14”) and then added 3.5” of twisted rib.

12-27-2023 - finished except blocking

Front bands 103 stitches. Button band done with the below-gauge size needles and made only 2 rows of icord and bound off 1 stitch to work with my smaller buttons. Happy to have found a place for these antique, german, green glass buttons from before the first world war. My husband gave them to me about 30 years ago and they’ve been waiting all this time for the right project. I’m sure it will also be prettier once it’s washed and blocked.

MODS: I owe a lot to pictures and notes from Dark Harbour’s Yorlin

  • deeper curve of neckline

  • shortened and tapered body

  • continued outer purl bands to neckline

  • added extra rows on the outside of center purl bands so that when I picked up for the button bands there was a row of vertical knit stitches to mirror the icord binding.

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Finished
June 24, 2023
December 27, 2023
 
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Yorlin
by Kate Davies Designs
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About this yarn
Milarrochy Tweed
by KDD & Co (Kate Davies Designs)
Fingering
70% Wool, 30% Mohair
109 yards / 25 grams

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  1. bouncy
  2. tweedy
  3. saturated
  • Project created: June 24, 2023
  • Finished: December 27, 2023
  • Updated: December 30, 2023
  • Progress updates: 7 updates