2023 - gifted (to Katie Wilson?)

Afterthoughts: I wear this a lot, although I wish it was longer by a couple of inches, at least. If I ever knit this again, I think I would add 3 inches after the top of the pocket.

knitted sleeves in the round and joined up with the rest of the yoke.

Finally got the buttons on!
Prior pictures of unblocked, unbuttoned FO taken on the porch of Maggy’s cottage in Maine - fancy pj’s and everything.

Cables on button bands are 6/6 RC. Hard to do without a cable needle on the small 4.0 mm. Used a darning needle that I had in my purse in a pinch, which worked well.

When doing the pocket flaps and the back, prior to joining the pockets, I found the pattern had 2 extra rows on the back. There are 36 rows on each pocket flap, and with the first 2 rows joining the right and left pockets and all the decrease rows, that would have been 38 rows, so I joined the flaps on row 37, which was my last decrease row for the darts.

Using this video for a new technique to catch the floats when knitting on the RS. link text The inside-out picture shows the floats caught using this technique.

Notes:

• switched to M1R and M1l instead of the lifted increases in the pattern.
• Knitting sleeves in the round. Decrease 2 stitches, as no selvedge. Knit up to the decrease for sleeve caps, then join to the fronts and back.
• after the Ribbon Chart on the front/backs, after binding off for armhole, join to sleeves - remember to decrease a stitch at each side of edges, as no selvedge, because no seam.
• when doing the sleeves in the round - sometimes the pattern starts on a purl row. Just look at the next RS row, and start on the pattern stitch for that row.
• switch to 4.5 mm needle for the stranded yoke, as my knitting is tighter stranded.
• why are there 2 back charts instead of 1?
• after the big snowflake on the yoke chart (row 28) I switched the left front to be the reverse of the right front. The pattern has you doing the right front, sleeve, back, sleeve one way, then switching for the left front. I chose to continue the pattern the same way around, as it is for the lower ribbon chart.
• the sleeve chart for the yoke is shorter than the front and back charts. After row 37 (last sleeve row), knit row 38 on the left front, and knit the last stitch of the front together with the outside sleeve stitch. Turn work, and knit row 39 of left front, joining the next sleeve stitch with the first stitch for the left front. This continues until the shoulder shaping, and uses up 1/2 the sleeve cap stitches.

Link to article on yarn dominance, so white pops

43 grams left of 6th skein of Moorland, and I barely got into my 2nd Antler