Baby It's Cold Outside - Jacket

I made this with Country 12ply. It took 125gms of purple and a small amount of the contrasting white.
It was very quick to crochet up. Taking less than an evening.
The pattern is here

1932 - second attempt

Pattern is here

I changed the pattern reducing the number of stitches cast on to 36. If I was doing this for Lilly again I would go up to 44 stitches so the bottom isn't as stretched.

Lilly's Rise is 48cm, hip 60cm, weight 15kg

This was knitted with Country 12ply on 5.5mm needles in the body.
This one took less than 100grms and knitted quicker than the other.

I also reduced the leg from the first attempt to 44sts.

There is still a little stretch in the soaker.

I've discovered that you really need to increase the rise to more than your childs rise as once the soaker is stretshed across the rise reduces.

Also the lesson of knit a tension square is now firmly learnt :)

Miss Lilly's art work :(

Not happy!!!!

Lilly tells me her "drawing" is a picture of mummy.
Can you see my head, boobs and belly? on the left cushion. Clever really but......

Being chalk I thought it wouldn't be too hard to remove but...
I've vacuumed and dry wiped and it's still there. Will have to try some upholstery cleaner next.

1932 Soaker

Without the cuffs and tie added.

With cuffs and tie.

Knitted from here

I used 12 ply Country by Cleckheaton and 5.5mm needles on the body and 4mm needles on the cuffs.
I used a 100gms of the red and 30gms of the green.
They knitted up quickly, taking about 6 hours to complete.

The finished rise is 48cm (19 inchs)

I used the same number of stitches as the pattern (52) and knitted up 52 stitches on each of the cuffs.

I think it's too big for Lilly. The stretch is HUGE on these. May re-try with an 8ply wool and see how that works.

Lilly has large thighs and I like that you can easily adjust the leg holes to suit the size. I did this pair with a lot of stretch in the leg as I don't like them too tight.