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PEAROOM JACKET
I knitted several silk jackets in this style and then used it for the body of the Pearoom jacket. The Pearoom Jacket was commissioned by Pearoom Craft Gallery in Lincolnshire. As part of activities connected with knitting Competition and Exhibition I was asked to give a series of knitting demonstrations as I created a garment which would be raffled. I chose SUMMER as the design brief for my jacket and made up a story board and swatches, hoping other knitters might be inspired to have a go too. I narrowed the pictorial material down to summer gardens and found two distinct colour groups. One was blues, violets and purples, the other oranges, reds and browns. Green was common to both and so was yellow. I also was attracted to the idea of light and shade so that the centre of the jacket, front and back shows the lighter, sunlit colours and the sides are deeper and shadier. I wish I had time to dye my own yarns as I found it impossible to find all the greens I wanted. Since I wanted to use a lot of colour and was using commercial yarns I planned the stitches using only one colour on a row. There is only one place in the whole jacket where I use two colours in a row. This meant that the Jacket was not too heavy. These are the stitches I used - the page numbers refer to Barbara Walkers Treasury of Knitting Patterns and Second treasury of Knitting Patterns. SLIP STITCHES Windowpane Stripes -BW TKP p.58 Three-Colour Tweed - BW TKP p.61 Carousel Check- BW 2TKP p. 38 Thorn Pattern -BW 2TKP p.97 TEXTURE STITCHES Daisy Stitch - BW TKP - p.153 Slip Stitch Mesh - BW TKP - p. 156 (Using second colour for rows 3 and 4 as suggested) Little Herringbone - BW TKP p.98 (used on yoke) Two-colour Star Stitch - BW 2TKP p.92 English Rose Tweed -BW 2TKP p.107 Florentine Frieze BW 2TKP p.109 Small quilted Cross-Stitch BW 2TKP p.122 The Pearoom jacket sleeves are knitted from the wrist upward with increases along the row. The shaping at the top is a shallow curve and it is sewn in in the conventional way. The yoke is the herringbone stitch in several shades of green. |
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