Laurel's Jacket by Sally Melville

Laurel's Jacket

Knitting
January 1998
Bulky (7 wpi) ?
14 stitches and 24 rows = 4 inches
in stockinette stitch using chunky weight yarn and largest needles. 18 sts x 24 rows in stockinette stitch using Aran weight yarn and 2nd largest needles.
US 6 - 4.0 mm
US 7 - 4.5 mm
US 8 - 5.0 mm
5.0 mm (H)
4.0 mm (G)
S (M, L, XL) Shown in size L
English

Colorful intarsia jacket worked from charts.

Level of Difficulty: Advanced

Measurements:

  • Chest: 40 (45, 50, 55)“
  • Length: 20 (22.5, 22.5, 25)“

Materials:
Chunky weight (fuchsia) version

  • Sleeve color in chunky weight wool tweed yarn: 350 yds or approx. three 3.5oz / 100g balls in red-purple.
  • Trim color in Aran or chunky weight wool tweed yarn: 150 yds in black.
  • Contrast Colors (CC) in chunky weight cotton chenilles (CC1) and in Aran to chunky weight wool tweeds (CC2): 3-yd lengths in light to dark intensity red-purples, purples, blue-purples, blues, and blue-greens. (Both sleeve and trim color are also used as CC2.) Total length required for each CC is 175 (225, 240, 300) yds.
  • Eight 5/8” buttons in trim color.
  • US sizes 6, 7 and 8 / 4, 4.5 and 5 mm needles
  • US size H/8 / 5 mm crochet hook

Aran weight (brown) version

  • Sleeve color in Aran weight wool tweed yarn: 350 (350, 400, 400) yds or approx. 4 (4, 5, 5) 1.75oz / 50g balls in brown.
  • Trim color may be any dark CC2: 100 yds required.
  • Contrast Colors (CC) in chunky weight cotton chenilles (CC1) and in Aran weight wool tweeds (CC2): 3-yd lengths in light to dark intensity colors form most of the color wheel. (Both sleeve and trim color are also used as CC2.) Total length required for each CC is 175 (225, 240, 300) yds.
  • Eight 5/8” buttons in sleeve color (although only six are shown on the model)
  • US sizes 6 and 7 / 4 and 4.5 mm needles -US size G/6 / 4.5 mm crochet hook