dark-green rectangle becomes...

....a sort of jacket (well, rather a long shrug). I had already used the method of knitting a rectangle and then folding and sewing it in a certain way so as to get a jacket, bolero, etc.

I till have to post the pictures of it with the pockets (big ones!) I added.....and of me wearing it (in the pictures it's difficult to imagine how does it look like when being worn).

green fall-winter

At a Bershka shop I saw again a kind of pattern I had already thought about using in a knitting project. The fact that this time the colours I saw were really appealling to me and that we're again in Autumn made me rethink the idea. And i looked for some quite-forgotten dark green yarn balls and skeins.

unknown yet

I got the yarn and a vague idea of what I wanted. As I knit this new jacket, new ideas come to my mind about the final shape, the kind of sleeves to knit, and so on.

I got the yarn at the same place of the pale yellow one in a previous post. Using this kind of stitch, the knitted cloth is very light and soft, very nice. I'm using 2,5mm knitting needles. I now prefer to use thinner needles....maybe since the result looks more elegant, and rather spring/summer-like. However, using a bigger-gauged needles with thin yarns has also very interesting results....looking a bit like Haapsalu shawls.

haven't I said that I like yellow?

At some 0,60 euro shop (multiprice, not a Chinese bazaar) I found some beautiful yellow yarn (caricias bebé, from servimex). The colour looks a bit different in the picture but anyway, there are more pictures to come. Each yarn ball (50g) was 0,75 euro, and the texture is very nice and soft. I'm usign 2,5mm needles. The stitch pattern I'm using is not difficult (to me, now that I got used to knitting) but like all lace-knitting patterns, it's easy to make a mistake when counting.

The PLAN: lace knitted long-sleeved jacket.

B/W jacket (houndstooth a.k.a. pied-de-poule variation)

I had found the picture and instructions of a jacket with some sort of houndstooth pattern but, as usually, I felt it could be improved, i.e. adapted to my taste and preferences. The shape is already different, I knitted longer sleeves (sort of 3/4) and I'm not knitting fake pockets. I didn't either knit the ribbing as it's indicated but I crocheted most of it instead.

It seems that I can't really follow any instructions completely since I tend to find something worth being improved.

I'm still amazed about how little yarn I needed! I used 1 yarn ball of each colour (100g) and some extra yarn ...but much less than half a yarn ball. By the way, I used 5mm needles.

I'm not sure but I might knit a pair of pockets (same pattern, ribbed in black).