{"id":1340,"date":"2010-08-17T12:48:42","date_gmt":"2010-08-17T12:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/?p=1340"},"modified":"2010-08-17T12:50:50","modified_gmt":"2010-08-17T12:50:50","slug":"fo-lyttelton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/?p=1340","title":{"rendered":"FO: Lyttelton"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back in May I cast on the stitches for my Lyttelton<\/a> in Blacker Designs<\/a>‘ 4-ply, organic, pale blue Corriedale. This exact shade appears to be no longer in stock, but if I was knitting Lyttelton again, I’d stick with the Corriedale and maybe knit the design in blue denim<\/a>, turquoise<\/a>, or the beautiful olive green shade<\/a> as I think this is a lovely fibre to knit with. It is light and springy in the hands and creates a warm garment with good stitch definition and a pleasing, fuzzy halo.<\/p>\n

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I hadn’t heard of Corriedale<\/a> until Brenda<\/a> told me it was her favourite fibre to spin; apparently it has a fantastic liveliness and bounce. The knitted fabric is warm, but it also has a robust, non-delicate quality, which means that one’s Corriedale Lyttelton can be worn for boisterous activities such as tree-climbing and foolish, simian posturing.<\/p>\n

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Why is it that the really juicy mulberries are all quite high up in the tree?<\/p>\n

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Luckily my underarm seams turned out well enough that I feel no shame at all in stretching forth to reach those tasty berries.<\/p>\n

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A very unripe mulberry.<\/p>\n

It took me rather longer to make Lyttelton than I thought it would because I could only really knit it in small snatches between doing all the art projects I have been working on lately, and it is the kind of garment which – for my modest knitting pace – would have advanced much faster if I could have spared a couple of afternoons to work intently on it. However I really enjoyed the way those repeats steadily multiplied on my needles between non-knitting jobs, and the row-repeats are just long enough that completing each tilted ladder lozenge felt like an accomplishment and not a slog<\/em>. The charts for the pattern are easy to get the hang of, and I enjoyed the clear and precise instructions that Kate provided.<\/p>\n

The way that Lyttelton comes together at the end is satisfying in the same way that Elizabeth Zimmerman’s Baby Surprise Jacket is; you have this ungainly flat knitted thing on the needles, you steam and fold and sew it into place, and voila, a wearable garment emerges! I also liked how the Corriedale could be spliced as I went along so that at the end there were very few ends left to sew in, and the k1, p1 ribbing completes the whole thing in a fashion that is neat, but not too girly for my tastes.<\/p>\n

I do like the way the design can be nipped in at the waist with the aid of a brooch pin, or tossed slouchily around the shoulders, shawl-style.<\/p>\n

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I think this is my new favourite knitted thing!<\/p>\n

FO: Lyttelton<\/a> by Kate Davies
\nYarn: 4-ply Corriedale from Blacker Designs<\/a> (3 balls)
\nNeedles: 2.75mm and 3.25mm circulars (I think?)
\nRavelled: here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Back in May I cast on the stitches for my Lyttelton in Blacker Designs‘ 4-ply, organic, pale blue Corriedale. This exact shade appears to be no longer in stock, but if I was knitting Lyttelton again, I’d stick with the Corriedale and maybe knit the design in blue denim, turquoise, or the beautiful olive green […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[674,657,637],"tags":[2525,656,2528,1521,2453,2527,2526,1178,2529,1083],"class_list":["post-1340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clothes","category-knitting","category-making","tag-corriedale","tag-creativity","tag-fuzzy","tag-kate-davies","tag-lyttelton","tag-pleasing-construction","tag-seamless","tag-tidy","tag-tilted-ladder","tag-warm"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pmise-lC","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1340"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1346,"href":"http:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340\/revisions\/1346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}