OK, so school started on Wednesday & it’s a little intimidating, but I think I’ll be ok. Thankfully, there aren’t any papers due for a couple of weeks. I’m taking Moral Philosophy right now, and my classmates (or their virtual selves, rather) seem a pretty interesting group.
I’m knitting something pretty ambitious right now: a Central Asian coat: it closely resembles a Turkoman or Mongol style of coat, with the doubled fronts, and I’m developing it off of the way that the woven coats were traditionally made.
So, this works out to: the central back and front are made from a continuous piece of fabric, the arms are made by splitting another piece of fabric, and the rest of the garment is constructed by using the leftover bits as gores (flared or triangular pieces that add ease or volume).
So far, it’s working out exactly to spec. I credit this to:
1. Actually measuring my gauge exactly.
2. Using inches AND rows in determining when to do decreases.
3. Dumb luck.
The stitch I’m using is linen stitch: it makes a flat, non-curling fabric, and it showcases Noro Kureyon’s color shifts really nicely (I think).
I’m documenting it all, and will block & measure & photograph each piece, so that anyone who wants to try it out themselves will be able (hopefully) to follow the pattern.
Check out the picture below on click on it to see the others @ Flickr:
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