Tag: chunky zip jacket

Z is for Zips

Even though I haven’t started sewing up the Menace jumper [Ravlink] yet, I’ve been thinking about the other Unfinished Object that’s been sitting around for ages and ages, and that’s my Chunky Zipped Jacket [Ravlink] which is knit from Sirdar Bigga yarn.  The main thing that’s keeping me from finishing this is the zip, although I’m also not quite sure whether to sew the seams with the Bigga yarn (which is “Super Bulky” weight), or with a thinner yarn of the same colour.  I do have a thinner yarn, and that would make the seams less bulky, I think.  But would it show up or be less stable, too?  I don’t know!  Help!  I also suspect that this might not be the best project to try attaching a zip to, when it’s the first time I’ve ever done that.  Again, the bulkiness is an issue.  What do I sew the zip on with?  Thread or yarn?  This stuff is hard.  Time to get advice from wiser heads, I think.  I’ll cart it along to KnitJam next week.

Otherwise, today has been more of a knitting day than a tidying up one, though I have got some of that done.  But good news!  I’ve finished my Clapotis [Ravlink] at long last.  I still have to weave in the ends, and block it (probably… I might leave it, I haven’t decided yet) but otherwise I’m done.  Woohoo!  Pictures will be coming soon.

J is for Jumper

I’m not very good at knitting jumpers and cardigans.  Or at least, I’ve knitted them, but them completely failed to sew them up in two cases, and in other cases I’ve just not got very far on the knitting itself.  I do keep seeing patterns I like, but frequently they’re in the American ‘worsted’ weight, which is half way between the DK and aran weights more commonly available here… which leads to so much indecision on what would be best to know them in that I never get started at all!  I don’t know, it’s all terribly stressful ;-)

What I do want to finally finally do (although I’ve been saying this for some time) is get those two that I’ve got all the knitted pieces for, sewn up and finished.  Those are my “Menace Jumper” and a big chunky cardigan from a Sirdar pattern.  That one’s going to be cosy come winter, assuming it still fits me!  It has been a while since I started knitting it, after all.  Like, what, four years?  Whoops!  Maybe I should take one of them with me tomorrow to World Wide Knit In Public Day – if it’s going to be fine, I’ll have space to spread out more.  It could be a plan!  I’ll let you know how it goes in tomorrow’s post.