46 rows of legs and 38 rows of arms before the white. Decreased an extra 2 stitches in the arms when changing to white because it’s significantly thicker yarn even though they’re supposedly the same yarn (thanks Novita!).
I actually did go down a bit to a 3½ mm needle to knit this, but the gauge isn’t as tight as it should be. This isn’t apparent in the main parts of the body as much, only the joints where the stitches stretch, but once stuffed you can see that even the body would benefit from much smaller stitches. I’d go down to 2mm probably, if not 1½, if using 7 Veljestä for a pattern like this again.
As a result of that problem, once I had it mostly stuffed to check how stretched the joints would be, I had to go through and do a lot of darning around where the legs, tail, and arms met the body. Embroidered eyes and nostrils.
I highly recommend firmly weaving in or binding off the tails when you change color as you go and tucking them inside - I skipped this on the first foot and turning it inside out was a huge pain, but it was a great relief on the other limbs.
22.12.2018
I knitted the monkey’s cabled cardigan as a raglan in worsted superwash from the top down on 2 mm needles, split for the body pieces and knitted them all flat separately, then blocked it to stretch before seaming the underarms and weaving in the ends. It has a small shawl collar knitted in about four short rows from the V-neck/raglan shaping end. The fronts of the cardigan increased in width with the raglan seams to give a parallel line, then knit straight after they were divided. The back was increased at the sides another 4 or 5 times so that it would fit over the monkey’s belly (the monkey pattern has center back increases).
The socks are worsted weight on 4mm needles, CO 32 stitches in the round, 2x2 ribbing for the calf with a straight heel. I switched to contrast color for the foot part and knitted only about 4 rounds straight before beginning steep toe decreases to fit the monkey’s non-human-shaped foot.
The hat is also 32 st on 4mm needles, but in a soft dk yarn I had scraps of. In retrospect, it should be larger. It fits on the monkey’s head, but it’s really too tight.
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