One Sweater Drags On, Another Zooms Forward // Casual Friday S05E29

Описание: This week's Casual Friday has Tidbits; stalled progress and regrouping in one sweater; zooming progress in another.

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SHOW NOTES
TIDBIT #1
Franklin Habit's instagram post about visiting Jane Gaugain's grave   / chkfcxrib6z  

Kate Davies' blog post about Jane: https://kddandco.com/2016/03/11/in-th...

Jane Gaugain's first book, published 1840 https://archive.org/details/krl00394037
Wikipedia article on Jane Gaugain: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Ga...
Knitting Reference Library on archive.org: https://archive.org/details/knittingr...

TIDBIT #2
Alpacas turn decaying farm into thriving slow-fashion homestead
   • Factories closed. This family thrived with...  

TIDBIT #3
Why French Leavers Lace Is So Expensive
   • Why French Leavers Lace Is So Expensive | ...  

REVERSE ENGINEERED SWEATER
My Ravelry project page https://ravel.me/Rox/ritng

Yarn used The Fibre Company Cumbria, color Saddleback Slate; red is Cascade 220, color 2401

Note: because this is reverse engineered from a 20-year-old commercially knit sweater, there is no pattern.

1970S KANGAROO POUCH SWEATER
Ravelry Project Page https://ravel.me/Rox/kps
The yarn I'm using is Marisol Huñi, in the color Sapphire https://www.ravelry.com/yarns/library...

To design the sweater, I'm using the Kangaroo Pouch Sweater from Knitting Without Tears, by Elizabeth Zimmermann https://amzn.to/3C3mZUt
with some tips from Knitting From the Top by Barbara G. Walker
The stitch patterns are from The 2nd Treasury of Knitting Patterns by Barbara G. Walker https://amzn.to/3pe6cqb

The Sweater Workshop, by Jaqueline Fee: https://amzn.to/3whgMk4 (Amazon link)
A number of copies are available used from abebooks: https://tinyurl.com/yrutx7kb

Videos on converting flat stitch patterns to in-the-round:    • Flat Knitting to In the Round  

I use StitchMastery to chart out my patterns https://stitchmastery.com

0:00 Introduction
0:33 Tidbit #1 Franklin and Jane
5:26 Tidbit #2 Kilometer Zero
7:01 Tidbit #3 French Leavers Lace
9:02 WIP Reverse Engineered Sweater
16:33 WIP Vintage '70s

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