Another gorgeous colorwork design by Rachel Illsley. Her patterns are so well written.

The main color was a single strand of the Knit Picks Stroll Fingering (color “Cider). For the contrast, I held two strands together - the white Phildar and the gold mohair (cobweb weight).

Here’s a link to the very thin mohair yarn that I bought from Temu in China.

I like it because it’s so light weight that it only adds color and doesn’t change the gauge when held with a fingering weight yarn. I ordered it on August 19th and it arrived 8 days later. So I’m guessing that they have a warehouse somewhere here in the USA. The fiber content of this cobweb yarn is 30% mohair, 50% polyester and 20% merino wool. I weighed the new ball of yarn which was only 44 grams / 1.55 oz. (not 50 grams). There is no weight or yardage given on the yarn label. Therefore, I would not go by the yarn usage shown above for this project (since I had to guess at the yardage in this ball).

Rachel gave me permission to knit wider sleeves. I picked up 32 sts under that arms when resuming work on the sleeves + 64 held sts = 96 sleeve stitches. This gave me 6 horizontal repeats of the colorwork chart. (6 x 16 sts = 96 sts for sleeve circumference)
I knit straight all the way down until the cuff ribbing - 115 straight rounds. Then I “K2tog” all around = 48 sts for the cuff ribbing. I did 19 round for the cuff ribbing before JSSBO using the same size 2 US needles.

Here’s a short video showing how I do colorwork knitting.

Needles used:

1.5 US Milward - Neckband

2 US Addi - Lower Ribbing and sleeve cuff ribbing

2.5 US Addi - Yoke with colorwork

3 US Addi - Body and sleeves following the colorwork