KAL closing down

Just a courtesy announcement to say we have decided to close down this KAL, several of us are no longer making the jacket and we felt it was time to bring this to a close. Thanks for for being members here!

After consideration this blog will be left online as a reference for anyone wishing to knit Sgt. Pepper.

R.I.P. Sgt. Pepper

I've made the decision not to continue my Sgt. Pepper jacket. I just don't like the way it's turning out in this yarn, so I've ripped out the sleeve, put the yarn in a bag and will make something different with it someday. It's time to let it languish in the stash for a while.

In the meantime, I'm going to refocus on other projects that I want to finish up. And.... a friend and I have decided to make sweaters with David Gilmour's (Pink Floyd) face on the front. It'll be my whimsical knitting for a while. I have yet to finish the design, so it's destined for future knitting.

Will I make Sgt. Pepper? Maybe. But for now, I'm just going to take a long break from it. Let it be.

It's been fun to 'meet' you and I'll be checking back on the blog to see your progress.

All the best from Colorado.... Joanne

Picture of sleeve-in-progress

Hi again...

Rather than waiting until the weekend, I decided to take a picture of the sleeve during my lunch break at work. The sides and top are curled, but you can get the idea. I'm almost at the 17" mark. I'm making my sleeve just a wee bit shorter than the pattern calls for.














I still haven't decided whether I should just carry on or rip out the sleeve and start again on larger needles. The fabric is just so limp, but maybe it'll be alright. My current thinking is to just keep going and hope for the best.

I'm knitting with my new Options needles from Knit Picks. Have you tried them? I really like them... especially the points, which are almost like weapons! I'm looking forward to giving them a try on a lace project.










I hope you all have a good weekend. I can't wait until I can go home and start knitting!

What to do, what to do....

I've started knitting! Finally. I decided to start with the sleeve.

Right now I'm getting 20 stitches in 4 inches, instead of 18 as called for in the pattern. The row gauge is right on the mark.

I'd hate to go up a needle size or two to achieve the gauge as the fabric of the sleeve is already quite limp.

Did any of you have this problem? If so, what did you do about it? Maybe blocking will help? Maybe the jacket will stretch when finished? Maybe I need to become anorexic?

Any comments, ideas, suggestions ... anything, would be appreciated. I'm using Cathay and I really like this yarn, even though it does split easily.

By the way.. thanks for your earlier input. I've decided to make this colourway:













I'll post a picture of my knitting on the weekend.

Joanne
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Made a start!

I'm on the third of the back pieces now. I'm finding this a very quick knit, although I'm sure I won't be saying that once I get to all the detailing! I haven't used Cathay before and I've had a few panics over my tension. Having laid out the pieces I've done so far though, they are 'near enough' (!) the specified measurements, so fingers crossed it will be ok!

I'm thinking about minimising my colour choice. Do you think if the body was green and all the detailing was black that it would work? I want to try and strike a balance between having a spectacular jacket and something I don't feel uncomfortably over dressed in!

Listed

Just a quick note to say this KAL is now listed on the 2006 Knitalongs page!

If anyone knows of any other places we could be linked from, please let me know.

Bit more done

No pictures yet because I want to tidy it up a bit, and I think that adding the buttons will help. Last night I did the collar cabling, which I found very hard on just 4 stitches! Today I've sewn it on and it's ok but a bit untidy. I think when the buttons are sewn onto the ends it will look tons better, and I'm wondering if anyone has buttons yet? I'm just off to have a search and see what's available online.

Having looked at Katie's I can see just how much too big mine is, but I won't moan. My fault after all and it's probably still wearable. I even think I *might* make this again in the smaller size (I know, gone mad!) as I love the pattern so much. The more I do, the cleverer I think it is :D

body done

all the main pieces of mine are done and sewn together. just the decorations to go!



it's a bit big but a re-block should fix it.

I-Cord

Here's my first attempt at a Cathay i-cord using my new Embellish Knit. I think it's not bad! There is a rather lumpy bit near the start but I might be able to get rid of that with practice and if not I can always trim off the first couple of inches. Beats hours huddled over my dpns anyway!

I know some people have tried the Prym/Inox version of this and it hasn't liked Cathay, so if you're looking for an i-cord mill I guess the Embellish Knit is a better buy for Sgt P.

Evidence of knitting!

I've completed the first piece of the jacket, the centre back panel :-)



This was fairly quick to do, I'm planning on fitting in the pieces between my other WIPs. Slowly but surely :-)

Does anyone else not like the M1s at this tension? I knit into the back loop on both sides otherwise you get a huge hole (learnt that from SnB). You can still see somewhat of a hole. I might revolt and use KFB :-D

ETA - the yarn is black Cathay, I know it looks greyish (and quite a nice gunmetal grey LOL) but this was taken with camera flash as there wasn't enough natural light by the time I got to taking photos :-)