Cumulus Blouse - Turquoise Ver.
1 post 7 knitlog entries May 2025 – Aug 2025
Finished August 12, 2025
Cumulus Blouse - Turquoise Ver.
The mohair delight
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From cast-on to bind-off, oldest first.
- Families brought me the yarn from Paris. They all look amazing! Knitted a swatch for Cumulus blouse, with 2 yarns held together. The turquoise and grey colour blended beautifully together and has a subtle shimmering. My …
- Casting on the new project. The plan is to use a bright and catchy colour to knit an ordinary blouse. This is my first PetiteKnit project. For the colour choice, when I bought two colours from this French yarn brand …
- V-neck takes way longer than the round necks and makes me feel it takes forever. Anyways I finished the V-neck and also raglan increase, heading towards body and sleeves! Once I finish the current skein, I’ll weigh how …
- Borrowed EZ’s Knitting Workshop DVD but it didn’t provide much details I wanted. I get to see how it works in real though, and it’s just magical! I knitted appx. 7’’ for the left sleeve, but after trying it on, I felt it …
- For the left sleeve, I finished it with the diagonal cuff from Ranunculus Sweater per size 8’s instruction. For the last 2 row (a plain knit following decrease round), I used US 6 needle as the small needle as US 5 …
- Yarn left: 16g I only have the body left. I want to use up this yarn so I need to calculate carefully. Based on my previous record, 172 sts x 13 rnd = 7g yarn. The row gauge is appx. 8 rnd = 1’'. Calculate the i-cord …
- Yarn left: less than 1g? I cannot weight it on the kitchen scale I took the risk and knit 16 rounds, it turned out perfect - only very little yarn left. Blocking and drying. The pre-blocking blouse is quite fitted on me …