As much as I love the Breeze jacket or coat that I knitted about 4 years ago, I don’t wear it often, as it gets dirty very easily. The main reason, however, is that I find it difficult to wear here in Madrid. I only reach for it a few times in Spring, before the temperatures turn too high.

That’s why some time ago I decided to knit this garment again in wool. I finished it in January of this year and have worn it today for the first time. I should have chosen a better day for it; we had 23 ºC when we took the pictures this afternoon…

As far as I can remember, I followed the pattern without making significant changes. I only added a few rows in the waist area as I wanted the jacket or coat to be long enough.

When I was knitting the back, a few rows before starting with the armhole decreases, I noticed that there was something wrong with the stitch count. I had made a mistake in the first section of decreases at the beginning of the piece. Probably nobody would have noticed, but the perfectionist in me didn’t allow me to ignore this mistake and I decided to start over again.

I think that I have spent hours trying to remove all the cat hairs before and after washing and blocking my new Breeze. There are still quite a few hairs that are almost impossible to remove, but I have decided to oversee them.

Other than that, I am really happy with my new coat, it is exactly what I wanted.