just another raveller

As explained in an earlier post , this cotton jacket consists of two basic stitches, Abbey's Herringbone Lace and Walker's Seaweed, thus leading to the name. Under dull or artificial lights, the colour is a dark, black green, but in bright sunlight, it acquires a blue green hue. The textured stitches add interest but more importantly give the garment, which is knit in a cotton DK yarn , added structure. I knit it without a pattern. The next time I make this jacket, I will knit the fronts and back as separate pieces and make sure to adjust the Seaweed pattern so that the fronts mirror each other rather than having the Seaweed stitches facing all in one direction. Also, I might lower the profile of the neckline. Otherwise, I am very satisfied with this project. I will try to get a decent pic taken on a person, but for now, here it is on a hanger: And here's the shore of the North Sea itself, taken from the Northumberland coast.

These little crocuses will need to survive 22 F (-6 C) tonight. Wish them luck. Meanwhile, here's the beginning of a cotton jacket. The yarn is Jo Sharp Soho Summer DK cotton knit on 3.5 mm needles. This jacket starts with a seed stitch border followed by Herringbone Lace stitch (Barbara Abbey ). My gauge for the Herringbone was about 5.3 stitches per inch. After about 3-3.5 inches, I switched to another 6 stitch repeat: the Seaweed pattern from Barbara Walker's Second Treasury . I'm getting 6 stitches per inch with this pattern. This change in gauge makes a nice transition at the hips and helps create the illusion of shaping. I first knit this jacket, of my own design, several years ago, but yarn was variegated and so the full effect of the textured stitch patterns was lost. It's on my Ravelry page as the Venice Jacket . I'm making some mods here and have renamed it The North Sea jacket. I really like the way one stitch pattern blends into the other.