Well, here we are at the first weekly-ish update on the Pearl Buck Swing Jacket knitalong — welcome! Thanks to Kat and Theresa, we already have some finished pieces to look at and admire!
Kat has finished the yoke, back, and left front already, with a birthday deadline looming in mid-March. Photos are on her blog.
Shelagh is waiting for her order of Matchmaker DK to arrive….
Suse is still waiting for the pattern to arrive….
Theresa writes, "I’ve finished both sleeves, the yoke and the left front and am about midway through the right front. I’m using Elsebeth Lavold’s Silky Wool in a color that I think is called Lava (it’s a purple color). So far, it’s an almost perfect gauge match for the recommended yarn. I’m doing the smallest size and haven’t yet noticed any problems at all with the pattern. But the pieces so far are pretty easy knits!" She has already blocked what she’s done, and posted pictures on her blog.
As for me, I have sixteen balls of Jaeger Extrafine Merino DK, having conveniently sent my husband to Hong Kong to buy yarn, just before the Interweave Knits preview came out — no, not really, but I did ask him to dash over to Paris Cotton Singlets while he was there, for a really good price on the wool called for in the Swing Jacket pattern. I gave him a few color suggestions, going by a shade card I found online somewhere, and so David got to choose — he came back with the same one as in the magazine, elderberry.
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