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Texas in My Hands: In the Tweeds
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I love how the different stitch patterns playfully come together.
I love how the different stitch patterns playfully come together.
Progress as of end of show.
Progress as of end of show.
Color choices, at least for the "first" one.
Color choices, at least for the "first" one.
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Finished
June 21, 2019
June 29, 2019

Texas in My Hands: In the Tweeds

Project info
In the Tweeds by Tif Neilan
Knitting
Sweater → Pullover
L
Needles & yarn
US 3 - 3.25 mm
US 4 - 3.5 mm
19 stitches and 24 rows = 4 inches
in Stockinette
1,500 yards = 6 skeins
Texas in My Hands Debouillet DK
2 skeins = 500.0 yards (457.2 meters), 200 grams
Cochineal
B1L3
Pink
Texas in My Hands Debouillet DK
1 skein = 250.0 yards (228.6 meters), 100 grams
Pomegranate
B1L2
Yellow
Texas in My Hands Debouillet DK
3 skeins = 750.0 yards (685.8 meters), 300 grams
Sumac
B1L2
Gray
Notes

I wanted to make a sample project that uses multiple colors. The most difficult part was to decide on the colors! Other color combinations that I had considered (from top down):

  • Dark Cochineal, Natural, dark Sumac
  • Acorn, Cochineal, Brown Eyed Susan
  • Medium Sumac, Loquat, dark Sumac … ok, let’s do one at a time!

Naturally dyed colors blend beautifully.

I cast-on this sweater on the first day of the Houston Fiber Fest 2019, the premier of Texas in My Hands.

Houston Fiber Fest Inspiration

While working on the sleeves, the memory of all the boxy, cropped, sleeve-less tops that I saw at the Houston Fiber Fest wouldn’t let me come to rest.

I wanted to see what a sleeve-less version of the “In the Tweeds” would look like, and buddy-knitter Betty volunteered to model.

Case closed. It had to be sleeve-less. I used the hem pattern for 10 rounds, then bound off in purl.

I could not be happier.

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Finished
June 21, 2019
June 29, 2019
About this pattern
In the Tweeds
by Tif Neilan
from Tif Handknits
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About this yarn
Debouillet DK
by Texas in My Hands
DK
100% Deboulliet
250 yards / 100 grams

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  1. supersoft
  2. enjoyable
  3. great stitch definition
  • Project created: June 24, 2019
  • Finished: July 5, 2019
  • Updated: November 6, 2019