Laboratory Pullover

I have a new pattern available through Interweave Knits! The Laboratory Pullover was published the other day in Interweave Knits Winter 2019, The Science Issue. There are a lot of fun science-themed knits in the issue, and you can check it out in the Interweave store here.

Photo courtesy of Harper Point Adventures Photography and Interweave Knits

My men's pullover, inspired by Dutch Fishermen's sweaters was given a bit of a modern tweak with the neckline shaping and set-in sleeves, which are worked top-down in the round for a seamless knit. The pullover is worked in Sugarbush Yarns Crisp DK, a gorgeous 100% merino yarn. You can see the excellent stitch definition in the below photo particularly well.

If you noticed during last year's Gift-a-long that I had drifted away from the forums partway through and had trouble keeping up, it was because I was hard at work on this sweater! I'm very pleased with it, and love the pictures that Harper Point Adventures Photography took for Interweave! They do gorgeous work, and the model is handsome too! The sweater looks great on him, and I should add that the same size of sweater (medium), thanks to the stretchy nature of the rope-and-cable pattern, fits nicely up to a 40" frame as well, where it would still have standard ease of 3" in the chest. The full size range of measurements for the finished sweater around the chest at the underarms is: 40 (43¾, 48¾, 52¼, 56)“. For more construction notes as well as details on sizing, materials, notions, and gauge, check out the Laboratory Pullover's Ravelry page here, where you can add this sweater to your knitting queue!

Photo courtesy of Harper Point Adventures Photography and Interweave Knits

Photo courtesy of Harper Point Adventures Photography and Interweave Knits

New pattern: Wrought Iris Mittens

The Wrought Iris Mittens pattern is now available for purchase!

If you've been following me on Instagram, you may have spotted these in their long and gradual process of being charted, written up, knit, unknit, reknit, until they were just right. They're finally here, and I'm very pleased.

The motif for these mittens was inspired by an image of a stylized Iris that has been reworked; intertwined with a memory of a wrought iron fence with the sunset glowing behind it. The result is a fun and elaborate-looking pair of stranded-knit mittens, the Wrought Iris Mittens glowing with the remembered light. Worked cuff up in the round using stranded colourwork, with a gusset worked in the palm that is set aside on waste yarn to be worked later for the thumb.

Finished Size: Women’s medium/large or Men’s small/medium 20 cm 8” palm circumference; 25.5 cm 10” total length.

Yarn: Ancient Arts Yarns Woof Collection 100% Superwash Blue Faced Leicester Wool 4 Ply (fingering/sockweight; 400m/437 yards per 100g 3.5 oz skein; 100% Blue Faced Leicester Wool), 1 skein in Golden Retriever (MC), 1 skein in Chocolate Lab (CC).

Or: Ancient Arts Yarns Woof Collection 75% Superwash Extra Fine Merino / 25% Silk - Fingering / Sock (fingering/sockweight; 400m/437 yards per 100g 3.5 oz skein; 75% Superwash Extra Fine Merino, 25% Silk), 1 skein in Golden Retriever (MC), 1 skein in Chocolate Lab (CC).

Introducing Abrazo!

I have a new pattern available through Ancient Arts Fibre Crafts: The Abrazo Hoodie!

Abrazo, which is Spanish for Hug, is a cozy hoodie perfect for a transitional season layering piece. Worked in Ancient Arts Bunny Hug, it was designed to showcase the combination of colours and textures of this amazing bouclé yarn, available in a broad variety of Caroline Sommerfeld's signature colourways. As the term Bunny Hug has long been a Saskatchewanism for a hooded sweater, it was only right to make sure there was a hoodie designed for it!

Here, Abrazo is pictured in the three following colourways: MC Pieces of Eight, CC1 Lichen In My Crevices, CC2 Iron Horse.

For more information and photos (including in a different set of colours in a larger size), head on over to the pattern's entry on Ravelry.

The pattern is available for purchase through Ancient Arts Fibre Crafts: https://ancientartsfibre.com/garments/abrazo_hoodie.html

Errata happen (as much as we wish otherwise)

Hi! Just stopping by to let you know that an error got past us while preparing for the publication of the Smoky Lake Cardigan a couple of years ago. A question from a customer brought it to our attention, and we have adjusted the pattern so that it is now correct. Despite our best efforts, these things do turn up in patterns from time to time.
The best way to check if a pattern you are working on has any documented errors is to do a quick search with the name of the pattern and the word 'errata'. Often, you will get pointed to either a publisher's webpage that keeps track of these for crafters, or you may end up on the Ravelry page for the pattern, which often lists errata or links to errata.
Please note that the version in Ravelry is up to date, so if you have purchased the pattern via Ravelry, just double-check that you have the most current version. If you had purchased the pattern via Twist Collective, then check that the instructions are corrected to read as follows for the Left Front, on page 2, right column:

"Size 50 ¾" / 129 cm size ONLY: During the following section, begin the first Cable A of each RS row with on st 2 of the chart.

All sizes
Next row (RS): P1 (0, 2, 0, 2, 0, 2), * work Cable A (B, B, B, B, A, B), work Cable B (A, A, A, A, B, A); rep from * 0 (1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2) more time(s), work Cable A 1 (0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0) time(s), work Cable B 0 (0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0) times, p3 (2, 3, 2, 3, 2, 3)."

Apologies for the mistake; I do wish I had caught it prior to publication, but I am grateful that a knitter brought it to my attention so that the next knitters to work on Smoky Lake don't have to puzzle over that part of the pattern.

Happy knitting,

Jessie