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Crimson Mojito Morning Rituals
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Ta DONE! or, the tale of a different yarn: lighter, bouncier, contracts more. LOVE the color and feel, but using same sizing as the gray (but reducing 12 stitches above waist due to fear of running out of yarn) much more snug fit.
Ta DONE! or, the tale of a different yarn: lighter, bouncier, contracts more. LOVE the color and feel, but using same sizing as the gray (but reducing 12 stitches above waist due to fear of running out of yarn) much more snug fit.
Remember Bazooka Joe? This is the Bazooka Joe neckline. I knit about 6", but didn't sew down to have options...see next pic
Remember Bazooka Joe? This is the Bazooka Joe neckline. I knit about 6", but didn't sew down to have options...see next pic
The traditional folder turtleneck option. With my neck shaping mods it doesn't rub on the front of my neck--stands up and away (but not too far away) nicely
The traditional folder turtleneck option. With my neck shaping mods it doesn't rub on the front of my neck--stands up and away (but not too far away) nicely
The midwinter snuggle option: top 1 1/2" or so turned to the inside to keep drafts and snowflakes and cold away from my neck. Wil probably be the most used
The midwinter snuggle option: top 1 1/2" or so turned to the inside to keep drafts and snowflakes and cold away from my neck. Wil probably be the most used
Back view. Refraining from barn comments.
Back view. Refraining from barn comments.
Love the deep pockets. Luckily the extra skein I needed matched so well I didn't have to unravel to finish the sleeves and re-do the pocket linings.
Love the deep pockets. Luckily the extra skein I needed matched so well I didn't have to unravel to finish the sleeves and re-do the pocket linings.
In my gray version there was a ton of room--I had sized up to about 79 stitches picked up because I don't like TIGHT. Here I picked up 70, but the yarn is more springy and they are MUCH more snug. Luckily yarn is soft so I am OK even if I prefer a little more room.
In my gray version there was a ton of room--I had sized up to about 79 stitches picked up because I don't like TIGHT. Here I picked up 70, but the yarn is more springy and they are MUCH more snug. Luckily yarn is soft so I am OK even if I prefer a little more room.
SQUEE! Extra yarn arrived and even I, the picky, can't see a dyelot difference for the cuffs and top half of the turtleneck. Here it is, inside out, as I bury in yarn tails and sew down the pockets. I'll give it a steam and take finished pics tomorrow!
SQUEE! Extra yarn arrived and even I, the picky, can't see a dyelot difference for the cuffs and top half of the turtleneck. Here it is, inside out, as I bury in yarn tails and sew down the pockets. I'll give it a steam and take finished pics tomorrow!
Got down to where the cuff starts and realized I had decreased too quickly so ripped back to an inch or two above in the photo and re-doing. Gauge swatches and even measuring (on this impossible to see individual stitches yarn) is failing me. Onward!
Got down to where the cuff starts and realized I had decreased too quickly so ripped back to an inch or two above in the photo and re-doing. Gauge swatches and even measuring (on this impossible to see individual stitches yarn) is failing me. Onward!
Close up of extension after seaming to the body and stitching the bottom seam, from the outside. You can't tell I goofed and fixed it!!!!!
Close up of extension after seaming to the body and stitching the bottom seam, from the outside. You can't tell I goofed and fixed it!!!!!
Here's the inside showing the seam (photo is sideways so the seam is sideways) and then about a half inch of knitting above where I attached the tab to the body. Looks pretty good and should feel fine when worn.
Here's the inside showing the seam (photo is sideways so the seam is sideways) and then about a half inch of knitting above where I attached the tab to the body. Looks pretty good and should feel fine when worn.
So I forgot to cast on 6 stitches at each edge for the start of the drop-shoulders/sleeves. After 2" by 48" with impossible to see the stitches yarn, I thought about ripping out and said NOPE. So I knit little tabs that I attached to the next row. Then I seamed them on.
So I forgot to cast on 6 stitches at each edge for the start of the drop-shoulders/sleeves. After 2" by 48" with impossible to see the stitches yarn, I thought about ripping out and said NOPE. So I knit little tabs that I attached to the next row. Then I seamed them on.
Can you see the cables? neither can I! Even in real life it is hard to see them. On the top edge of the photo is the 2x2 cable, two full repeats of it. A bit lower down where you see Andrea's fingers on the pattern page, a V cable. Right. Skipping the cables.
Can you see the cables? neither can I! Even in real life it is hard to see them. On the top edge of the photo is the 2x2 cable, two full repeats of it. A bit lower down where you see Andrea's fingers on the pattern page, a V cable. Right. Skipping the cables.
Yarn is amazingly soft, 81 percent merino, 19 percent (or thereabouts) nylon, which I think is the black. It isn't a boucle, but it is as hard to read once knit as a true boucle yarn!
Yarn is amazingly soft, 81 percent merino, 19 percent (or thereabouts) nylon, which I think is the black. It isn't a boucle, but it is as hard to read once knit as a true boucle yarn!
My first Morning Rituals, made in 2022, has become my favorite sweater! Check my projects for deets.
My first Morning Rituals, made in 2022, has become my favorite sweater! Check my projects for deets.
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Finished
March 5, 2024
April 17, 2024

Crimson Mojito Morning Rituals

Project info
Morning Rituals by Andrea Mowry
Knitting
Sweater → Pullover
Me
3
Needles & yarn
17.5 stitches and 26 rows = 4 inches
in Measured over stockinette stitch in the round knit with the Main Fabric needle, after blocking.
Mojito Merino
10 skeins = 1910.0 yards (1746.5 meters), 500 grams
Crimson 28
277174
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Notes

Fell in love with the yarns LYS but they had only 4 balls and it had just been discontinued, so I had to order it online. I had planned to make the pattern as written since I made one version in Brooklyn Tweed shelter 14 months ago, and it has become my most used sweater. However, when I swatched, I discovered that you literally cannot see the cables or even ribbing. So I will simply do a simple 3 x 3 ribbing on the bottom and top and omit all of the cables.

23 March 2024
Joined Andrea’s 2024 KAL early in March and started this. The yarn is VERY textured and soft, but impossible to see cables so doing ribbing instead.

Percy is helping show me how far I’ve progressed on my Morning Rituals. Someone in the KAL posted they are a dachshund, which I love as a description and had never heard before. I think I’m more of a Westie (guess why) or perhaps a corgi, but Andrea’s pattern calls for a 16” side seam. I made MR last year--the gray one-- with a side seam of 19 1/2” to get it to come as low on my body as Andrea’s (in the pattern photos) does to the top of her legs, and although it is my most worn sweater (I’m in Maine), I’d feel better about going in public in leggings if it were closer to 21! And I’m about an inch or so taller than Andrea has said she is…. so yeah….the torso (made with about 10” ease) part is going on forever!

I was worried I was going to run out of yarn because of the extra 5”, but I figured out once I got into the stockinette that 1 ball equals 4.75 inches. I did some rough estimates of yards per inch and how much the sleeves will eat up (about 10” worth I think) and inches remaining. I think I will JUST make it. If I have to, I will frog 3/4 of the pockets and use another yarn for the insides and use the frogged yarn to finish the collar. Because my yarn is SO textured (the strand itself as well as the black-bright burgundy colors), after swatching cables, I decided to omit them--lots of work for nearly zero visibility. Anyway, snowstorm today so I’m taking the day off to sit in my chair, watch the snow (we’ve had so little) and KNIT!

7 April 2024
So much for my math. I’ve ordered two more skeins. Updates to follow!

04-18-2024

April 18--DONE! Needed well over half of the additional skein, so have about 70 grams left in stash.

LOVE the feel of the yarn. It is, however, very bouncy compared to the shelter and therefore contracts a lot.

Because I was afraid of running out of yarn, I decreased 12 stitches from high hip to ribs (2 sts. on each side 3 times about 2” apart). I ended up needing more yarn since I had to lengthen the body to 19” below sleeve separation (compared to pattern’s 16”. That extra length used most of a skein. Had I known I was going to have to order more, I would have left it at (and preferred) without the decreases. NOT re-doing it!

LOVE my neckline modification, which avoids the rubbing on front neck ick. It’s a typical curve, about 3” lower in the center front. Collar (as with hem and cuffs) knit in 3x3 ribbing on one size smaller needles to 6” long using a stretchy bind off: k1+k1, then those 2 together, k1, k2tog as before, etc. The top edge stays flat on the top instead of tilting to one side and it stretchier than standard binding.

Didn’t stitch down the collar--love being able to change the collar as weather requires from Bazooka Joe (up over the face) to standard, to the inside tuck that I’m calling Midwinter Snuggle--that will be my go-to. The soft fold on this yarn stays in place and makes the top edge roll so nicely.

Sleeves: I have super narrow wrists, so on sleeve I reduced from 70 stitches to 50, then decreased 14 stitches on last row before ribbing at a rate of k2, k2tog, all around with an extra two decreases squeezed in near the under arm. Cuff ribbing is about 5 1/2” long.

Finished sweater is 469 grams or about 1792 yards (compared to the 1359 in the pattern for the 50” size--remember I added 3” in length tho)

And now, it is spring so I likely won’t wear this until autumn. I’ll be ready. I LOVE the feel and color.

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Finished
March 5, 2024
April 17, 2024
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Morning Rituals
by Andrea Mowry
from Drea Renee Knits
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  • Project created: March 7, 2024
  • Updated: April 18, 2024
  • Progress updates: 2 updates