It took me about three days to knit. I do not know how many hours at least 10. Since I used knit 200gms of yarn. 150 gms of Crystal Bamboozle 3 balls and I made the stripes from one 50g ball of Panda Cotton knit double stranded since it was fingering wt sock yarn. It worked fine. I had verry little yarn left over. less than a yard of each color. Both yarns have stretchie elastic quality. I knit the jacket on #8 needles beginning with 160 stitches. I figure if I add 12 stitches 4 to each section then it would come out bigger.
I suppose I could use bigger yarn and #10 needles to make a bigger jacket. I could try to felt it after knitting on the bigger needles. So many possibilities and so little time to knit. I took my finished sweater with me to visit Elizabeth for her knitting lesson on Tuesday. She wanted to knit one for her baby brother. We tried the one I made on him and found it to be too small. Francis will be 1 in March. So If I am to help Elizabeth make her sweater we will have to knit it a bit bigger.
I will be teaching the Danish Tie Shawl at Knitters Fantasy in April and I wanted to knit another Shawl before the event also. I should try to focus more. I have so many projects on needles. I should really be working on the shawl instead of this pattern. However this pattern fascinates me so I will start another sweater anyways.
