- Lace
- Cables
- Colorwork
- Sleeves done!
(almost) monogamous august
August went by super fast, like most of this crazy year – and this is weird for me, I’ve pretty much only knit on one single project, aside from a few repairs. I usually have 3-4 WIPs going!
At the beginning of the month, Caitlin Hunter released her fourth top in the Knitaly series, the Misurina tee. I’ve knit all the others so far – Tegna, Marettimo, and Navelli – so of course I had to knit the newest one, and I had some yarn saved up for a colorwork yoke, so I was ready to cast on immediately! 😀
(This is my sixth Boyland Knitworks knit, so I think I might need to hunt out some more designer variety soon, haha.)
My yarn is from Despondent Dyes (MC) and Oink Pigments (CC). I purchased them during a couple trunk shows at my LYS, Knit Locally, and both were total impulse buys. I had no plans and didn’t even realize they would go together until I was caking up a bunch of yarn purchases all at once, recently.
These yarns are all listed as sport-weight, so I definitely had to swatch, and ended up going up a couple needle sizes. They’re a little higher-twist than I’m used to, and I don’t love the way it looks close-up, but I’m hoping they’ll relax more after blocking. My swatch did relax fairly well after a brief wash, so possibly an actual soak on the full sweater will do the trick.
The yoke on this sweater has everything – lace, cables, and colorwork! That might seem intimidating for some but it’s really quite approachable in the pattern. I found it very engaging to knit the yoke because of all these elements, though cables aren’t my favorite. (I did most of the cabling without a cable needle – let me know if you’re interested in a video on that.) The colorwork is much lower-contrast than I was expecting (I guess the Standing Ovulation has more green in the speckles than I thought!) but it’s grown on me. Of course, I think the photo filters bumped up the contrast, but it was super hard to get the green to photograph right without any filtering!
You might notice I adjusted the neckline a little. The pattern calls for a rolled edge that turns into a twisted rib after a few rounds, but I wasn’t sure I liked that look, or whether it would work with this yarn/gauge. So, I did just the 1×1 twisted rib, and I love how it looks.
Side note – I am SO GLAD this is a top-down circular yoke. I knit the other three Knitaly sweaters because I loved their look, but wow are bottom-up sweaters tedious…
As you can see, I knit the sleeves before the body, which is something I’ve gotten to like doing lately, particularly for short sleeves. I repeated the lace chart on them (without increases), substituting one knit stitch for the cable section, because of how my stitch count worked out. Now that I think about it, I could actually have continued the cables too, which I kind of regret not doing.
Anyway, I’m onto the body now so momentum has slowed a little. I’m doing the purl dots chart, which I screwed up on the very first round but full steam ahead anyway. I’m not sure how long I will make this (I tend to accidentally crop a lot of my knits because of a desire to be done), but I’ll give it a try-on soon and decide if the sleeves will block out to be long enough. If so, I might try to use up the whole second skein and make this a tunic-length sweater?? That sounds ambitious for me, but let’s see!
Are you also knitting a Misurina? Tell me about it in the comments, or tag me on instagram!