misti alpaca tonos worsted

In The Sky With Diamonds Pullover pattern now available

March 17, 2013 by WakefulKnits, posted in Uncategorized

The pattern for my new In The Sky With Diamonds Pullover is now available.
It’s a fitted, textured pullover with cabled and bobble sleeves and a Cowl collar, in alpaca and merino.
The length is to around the hip bone. The pullover is shaped from the waist to the bust.
The yarn used is Misti Alpaca Tonos Worsted. The colour I’ve used here is Impossiblue – TW12. It’s a gorgeous soft warm yarn. I’m so looking forward to wearing this pullover. My aim of designing a pullover with a cowl collar has been acheived. I love collars.

In The Sky With Diamonds Pullover

Knitting Pattern

Yarn Suggested: Misti Alpaca Tonos Worsted or any other 10ply/Worsted yarn. 100gm balls, 199m (218 yds)

Gauge:22.5 stitches and 30.5 rows = 4 inches in Raspberry Stitch

Needle Size: 4.5mm

Meterage: 1367 – 3565 yards (1250 – 3260 m)

Sizes Available: 74 (84, 94, 104, 114)cm 29¼ (33, 37, 41, 45) in

This pattern is available to buy from Ravelry for $US 6.25

10 ply Alpaca/Merino in the middle of summer?

January 24, 2013 by WakefulKnits, posted in Uncategorized

My cowl collared pullover is continuing nicely. I’ve been keen to see the diffence of the appearance of the tone on tone yarn colours in the stocking stitch/cable sleeves in comparison to the very textured front/back. That’s partly apparent from my tension squares (swatches), but it’s good to see some finished pieces to see what it really looks like.

Here’s the completed back and the almost finished front. You can see what I meant about the colour change at the top of the back. I’d rather see this at the top or bottom, as it is, than as a band in the middle of a piece, so it’s working out OK. Both pieces were photographed on the same spot with the same lighting. Who know’s what the camera was doing? Not me!

I was OK with doing p3 togs all through every fourth row, but I’m happy to be onto the sleeves, which are stocking stitch, with a cable up the middle. There’s a bit less concentration required. 🙂

As for knitting in the middle of summer, we seem to be having a high 30’s day once a week, rather than an ongoing heatwave in other parts of the country, so the house hasn’t been heating up day after day. So the knitting continues. And I’ll have a lovely warm pullover to wear when summer is over. Yay!

A new project

January 1, 2013January 1, 2013 by WakefulKnits, posted in Uncategorized

I have a new project underway. The next step in trying different collars is the cowl collar. The vehicle for this collar will be a pullover in Misti Alpaca Tonos Worsted using a relief stitch for the body and a cable for the sleeves. My intention for the collar is to use a k2, p2 rib. I’ll worry about that when I get to it. Here are the swatches for this project. The first swatch uses Raspberry stitch.

I’ve finished the back of the pullover now. All the skeins are in the same dye lot, but a strange thing happened with the second skein. It was the light and dark blue as shown above, then I came to a join in the yarn and it’s been predominantly dark blue since then. This happened at the top of the back. I’m continuing in this darker blue for the beginning of the front. Hopefully it will all look like it belongs together by the end.