In Which I Pull a Rabbit From My Hat

Oh and there’s Knitting! There’s always knitting. My current WIP is going to be a dress when it grows up. Bizarrely, I’ve never knitted a dress before, and lately it’s all I can think about. Enter the exquisite merino from Jorstad Creek, called Shuksan:

I only had one skein of the gorgeous moss green to start with, so I had to plan accordingly, in case subsequent skeins are of a different dye lot. I could have just worked from the top down to start, but doing so would have resulted in motif stitches that are reversed (oriented like “A’s” rather than “V’s”), which I just can’t abide. So I measured around my chest and shoulders (Do Not Attempt This at Home), worked a provisional CO, and jumped right in. I hadn’t planned on the turtleneck; It just sorta happened in my hands. But I totally dig it; it’s super cozy.

Another thing I’ve never done before is to draw a chart which occasionally features three strands in a round. That’s been a big non-no of mine, but I just couldn’t control myself this time. My rationale is that I’ve spaced the three-color rounds far enough apart to rest in between, and the vast majority of the remaining knitting will be single-color stockinette in the round, which is kinda boring.

The finished pattern will be written to be worked from the bottom up, due to my fixation with motif stitch direction, but it should be easy enough to reverse the direction for my top-down junkies (I’m looking at you, Carson Demers)

So, who’s got a great idea for the name of a dress with hares on its yoke? Kindly share in the comments, won’t you?