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Recreating Lyra’s red sweater coat – part 4

January 14, 2008 in design, knitting, sweaters, yarn by Sarah

I have achieved enough yarn to finish the coat (surely this is enough):

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I have worked up a swatch:

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And here is my gauge: 7 sts / 12 rows to 4 inches / 10cm.

I knit this with between 4 and 7 strands held together at any time on US size 15 / 10mm needles.

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I like the result. The colours are slightly, but only slightly, less lurid than the pictures.

Please don’t feel you need to match my gauge as I plan to make the instructions adjustable for size and gauge.

A few notes on what I found working the swatch:

  • The colours work better when the added colour is either lighter or darker than the main colour, having both darker and lighter strands together made it look odd.
  • Any time you want to add another colour or strand you just hold it with your group. It’s not going to unravel as the other threads will hold it.
  • When you need a thread to go through to the back, you can poke it through with your finger.

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January 15, 2008 at 9:54 am

Amber

I am definitely looking forward to seeing your progress on this, especially since I have far too much deadline knitting right now to do a “just for fun” project like the coat! Very cool!