Fitted Vintage Jacket
Frogged
April 30, 2013
no date set

Fitted Vintage Jacket

Project info
http://www.flickr.com/photos/27965203@N04/sets/72157622463927931/with/4013486862/
Knitting
Me
Modified 34
Needles & yarn
US 0 - 2.0 mm
US 1 - 2.25 mm
Quince & Co. Finch
7.65 skeins = 1690.7 yards (1545.9 meters), 382 grams
Blue-green
Quince and Co.
March 9, 2013
Notes

Update Dec 2023: This is the only WIP I’ve allowed to hibernate and I really don’t know why I didn’t rip this out 10 years ago. If there’s one thing this has taught me it’s that my ability to knit and seam has most definitely improved over the last decade slightly_smiling_face I’m not outrageously into this yarn any longer but I’m sure it will find its way into something new (or maybe I’ll give it to Scott who’s just started knitting). Too bad this never came to be but this doesn’t really fit my current style or shape.

03-04-2016

So I’ve returned to this today - I seamed up the shoulders, sleeves and side-body. Lord, that took a long time. I used mattress stitch but I wasn’t slavish. On fingering-gauge stitches, I went through 2 or 3 at a time on each side to speed things up. Still took forever. Forgot that both sleeves have a cuff at the end (so attached sleeves at wrist before sewing on the cuff on one side. Hmmm…

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Frogged
April 30, 2013
no date set
About this pattern
Personal pattern (not in Ravelry)
About this yarn
by Quince & Co.
Fingering
100% Wool
221 yards / 50 grams

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KristinM100's adjectives for this yarn
  1. Workhorse yarn
  2. Overspun but bouncy
  3. Has a strangely crunchy hand, even after blocking (at least this batch I bought 6 yrs ago does)...
  • Project created: April 30, 2013
  • Updated: December 13, 2023
  • Progress updates: 12 updates