Update on the Hapi Coat project.

[camwyn]

I cast on the fifty-eight stitches for the back of the coat yesterday. I've knitted on and off since, and have finished one ball of yarn (out of ten needed). The resultant piece of fabric is currently a little over ten inches long.

I have got to get a skein of this yarn in black tomorrow, because clearly I'm going to reach the accent section a lot faster than I thought.

Did I mention that this garment requires pretty damn near a kilometer of yarn? 987 meters of the main colour for my size (medium / large), as opposed to 1175 meters for the next size up (X / XL). Come to think of it, it needs sixty meters of the contrast colour, so that's a full kilometer and change...

Comments

[almeda.livejournal.com]

It's like intestines: things are a LOT longer pulled straight than neatly coiled up in patterns being useful. :->

Have you ever unravelled a golf-ball core? Quite fascinating, really.

[just-the-ash.livejournal.com]

1. Did I ever get you a proper mailing address for me?

2. My friend in NYC is looking for not-too-far-away sources of natural-fiber yarn. Wool is OK with her; cotton is OK with her; but for some reason, she's just anti-acrylic. (As is Doug; he won't sleep under an afghan his mother knit because he finds acrylic weird. Okay, I mean, I'm allergic to petrochemicals myself, but the afghan is warm, and I think unless I chew the damn thing, I'll be fine...)

[camwyn]

1. YOu did, and I, like the dork that I am, lost it. Which is a pain, because I have your first mitten right here waiting to be tried on. If it fits you I can have its mate done in the space of a weekend. The cuff is a little iffy, that's the thing.

2. There's yarn shops in Manhattan, of course, but I can only vouch for yarn shops in my area. Morristown, New Jersey (reachable by car or Midtown Direct train from Penn Station) has a pretty good yarn store within walking distance of the train station. Madison, which is also on the Midtown Direct route, has a decent one as well. How 'not far away' are we talking here? And for the record, while I do use yarn that's partly acrylic, it's almost always blended with at least 20% wool. Otherwise it feels funny to the touch. Only Patons, a Canadian yarn company, ever managed to get decent-feeling acrylic yarn in my estimation. Lion Brand MicroSpun feels really soft, but I don't know what it's made out of.