{"id":1016,"date":"2024-05-29T19:53:36","date_gmt":"2024-05-30T03:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bellaceti.com\/lindaknits\/?p=1016"},"modified":"2024-05-29T20:04:08","modified_gmt":"2024-05-30T04:04:08","slug":"autumn-alpine-in-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bellaceti.com\/lindaknits\/autumn-alpine-in-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"Autumn Alpine… in spring"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

While browsing Ravelry, I decided to keep going further into colorwork with this pattern – Autumn Alpine by Boyland Knitworks. The Scandinavian-style floral yoke looked fun to knit, and after seeing Meredith\/magicktryx’s Autumn Alpine, I really wanted to try using 2 CCs, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I decided on Lion Brand LB Collection Superwash Merino when I came across a sale – the Briarsmoke color is a pretty shade of muted gray-brown. I decided to try to use my stash of Optimum DK for CC1, and I still have half a skein of leftover LB Collection Superwash Merino in Dijon for CC2!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Collar finished<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Starting the yoke<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Three colors, here we go<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

It was pretty challenging to knit with three colors at once. I had to be super mindful of tension so it doesn’t come out too tight, and also not get all the yarns twisted together while switching and catching floats. It took a full month to finish the yoke – I’m not super happy with how I handled CC2 (Dijon), but I learned a lot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The rest of the sweater is pretty straight-forward – no shaping, it’s got more of a wide\/cropped silhouette that seems to be the trend. The ribbed texture with two colors along the hem, cuffs and collar all match and is a really nice detail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I had to deal with a super stressful matter while working on the sweater and was glad to have just plain stockinette to power through. Completed in a little under four months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Finished<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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On the blocking mat<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Ready to wear<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Of course, now it’s the end of May and way too warm to wear \ud83d\ude42 I guess I’ll have something new to wear in December.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pattern: Autumn Alpine<\/a> by Caitlin Hunter
Yarn: Lion Brand LB Collection Superwash Merino<\/a> – Briarsmoke (MC), Dijon (CC2); South West Trading Company Optimum DK<\/a> in Desert (CC1)
My project page on Ravelry<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While browsing Ravelry, I decided to keep going further into colorwork with this pattern – Autumn Alpine by Boyland Knitworks. The Scandinavian-style floral yoke looked fun to knit, and after seeing Meredith\/magicktryx’s Autumn Alpine, I really wanted to try using 2 CCs, too. I decided on Lion Brand LB Collection Superwash Merino when I came… Continue reading Autumn Alpine… in spring<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1028,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,20],"tags":[74,47,48],"class_list":["post-1016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-projects","category-sweater","tag-autumn-alpine","tag-finished-object","tag-sweater"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.bellaceti.com\/lindaknits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/20240529_autumn-alpine_12-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellaceti.com\/lindaknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellaceti.com\/lindaknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellaceti.com\/lindaknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellaceti.com\/lindaknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellaceti.com\/lindaknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1016"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellaceti.com\/lindaknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1034,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellaceti.com\/lindaknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016\/revisions\/1034"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellaceti.com\/lindaknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellaceti.com\/lindaknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellaceti.com\/lindaknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellaceti.com\/lindaknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}