Hybrid of flirty skirt and triple treat skirt.

Pics of me aren’t the best but son needed to leave for work and he was the photographer! Maybe I’ll just crop out my head.

To get 16 stitch gauge needed for pattern, ignored Lion yarn suggestion of 6mm (too loose) and used 4.5mm.

Hip measurement 100-101 cm or 39/40”

Conditional cast on of 135 stitches like I did last time I knitted flirty skirt (instead of 150 in pattern) as I like a waist band.

Waist band
First I created the 30mm waist band casing by knitting 7 rows, purl 1 row (for folding over) then another 7 rows (7 rows suited 25mm skirt elastic). Then did a laborious joining of the the casing by picking up one of the conditional cast on stitches, transferring it to left needle and then purling two together. Next time I’ll just whip stitch the join like I did for the first flirty skirt.

Restarted counter after waist. When making increases after waist, for hips, slipped marker where I shouldn’t have. Need to increase BETWEEN markers, so line of increases which mimic darts slant the right way, outwards. Placed markers at sides, front and back - 32, 33, 35, 35 respectively = stitch count 135.

Hips
Increases for hips - used M1L and M1R started at row 7 and every 2nd row up to and including row 23 (extra 35 stitches). Stitch count 170 = sides 45,44, front and back 40,41.

Decreases after hips, every 4th row from rows 71 to 115. Total stitch count 136 = sides 35, 35, front and back 32,34.

Restarted counter.

Edging
Tried Nicky Epstein’s spiral ruffle but didn’t like look. Unravelled by picking up RHS of each stitch on row before ruffle and threaded on to cable and then ripped back to cable, see pics.

Second attempt at edging used chevron pattern from Garden Party Dress. 10 rows of knit chevron pattern on right side. Then 4 rows of purl chevron on wrong side. (Didn’t know how to do chevron purl pattern in the round so used work colleague Pixie’s tip of knitting on wrong side to get purl on right side.)

Bind off - on wrong side.
Lace bind off - P2TOG, slip to left needle, repeat. Produces a really nice edge for purl rows.