On Friday night and Saturday morning I dug out the Sunrise Circle Jacket and finished one ‘front’.

Changing the pattern from what I’m guessing is a 10ply yarn to a 12ply yarn should be relatively simple. Angles shouldn’t change, so if you start with the right number of stitches to match the measurements of the pattern (A) increase at the same rate and stop when it’s the right length (B) the width at the top (C) should be the same as it would be if you knit in the thinner yarn.

I did that, and it was spot on.

The armhole-to-neck raglan bit, with the circular front, ought to follow the same principle. If I decreased for the raglan at the same rate, it should finish up the correct size (D). The increases for the circular front bit should just end a little earlier than the pattern directions did.

Unfortunately, the raglan decreases ended a little short of the measurements for the length of the raglan. The front circular bit… well, IK don’t provide measurements for that bit (E), but when I pinned it to myself I realised it wasn’t yet deep enough to cross over at the front like it did in the picture.

To get around this, I continued following the pattern, but with no raglan decreases, so I had a thin strip at the top of the raglan. However, when I was pinning it to myself I began to suspect that the fit for the sleeves was too tight anyway. I decided to finish the piece and block it, then baste all the seams and try it on. If it is too tight…

… maybe I should insert pictures of yummy blocks of chocolate right here, bought from The Essential Ingredient…

… I’m going to… Look! 3.5 kilograms of couverture chocolate for use in my chocolate fountain bought at the same place. The 2.5 kilo bag of Lindt was $43 and great value for money (if you do buy some, make sure you get the Ecuador one, which doesn’t have butter fat in the ingredients). The 1 kilo block of Kennedy and Wilson was $25…

… have to frog the whole piece and knit it again, a few cm wider. That should solve the raglan-finishing-too-early problem as well as the too-tight-arms problem.