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Finished: Love Note

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My Love Note is done and blocked! I can’t tell you how buttery soft this sweater is after a good was in yummy smelling Soak.

Pattern: Love Note by Tin Can Knits (Rav Link)

Needles: US 9s and US 7s

Yarn: Old Rusted Chair Sock in colorway Back in The Pulse and Malabrigo Mohair in Whole Grain

Mods: Chose the longer body option

This sweater ended up with over 1,500 yards of yarn. I used 1.81 skeins of the sock yarn and 3.6 skeins of the mohair. That is 271 grams of yarn in the finished garment. I knit the 48.5 inch bust size which came me just slight positive ease. The fabric is pretty stretchy so it has a lot of forgiveness.

I pulled out the dress I plan to wear this with. It’s a sleeveless black dress that has an A-line skirt that hits me below the knee. It has the benefit of showing the lace and my bra won’t show through the lace. I don’t imagine I will ever wear this one without an under shirt. And I think this outfit feels smart and polished so a great candidate for work this winter!

Happy Knitting!!

Time For A Hem

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My Love Note is so close to being done! I am finally at the hem of the longer version.

I am under half of the last skein of sock yarn and on my last ball of mohair. I briefly considered making this longer but I don’t want to play yarn chicken with hand dyed sock yarn that I can’t easily source.

This will be a cropped sweater by my standards and I think that is going to be fine. I have a specific dress I want to wear this with. I will have to do some figuring on what kind of pants I will want to wear this with, if I do at all.

Happy Sweater Knitting!!

Love Note

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I’m still here being the mom taxi and chugging away on my Love Note.

I have decided to make the longer version rather than the cropped version. I have a good chunk of my Old Rusted Chair sock yarn left and just one single skein of the mohair left. I don’t think I will be playing yarn chicken.

I have noticed a few places where I didn’t both strands. I try to correct them as much as a I can but the mohair really hides the mistakes. I can also go back and duplicate stitch over them anyway.

Happy Knitting!!

Collar And Sleeves

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It’s been a minute since I showed you my Love Note and I got a wild hair to abandon the body and work the finishing part.

I knit the sleeves according to pattern but on a US 8 instead of the US 9 I am doing for the body. I just couldn’t find small circumference needles in the correct needles size. After knitting both sleeves, the gauge is close enough. I used half of the second skein of sock yarn and almost a full ball of mohair for these.

And I deviated from pattern on the collar. I followed all the directions but I didn’t use the super small needles called for. I used size 8s to make sure I had wide enough and stretchy enough collar to fit over my noggin.

Now to just cruise through the body and high/low hem for a finished sweater! Happy Knitting!!

Love Note Afternoon

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It’s been second summer here in the Midwest so I guess I am hammock knitting sweaters instead of wearing them. I am struggling through the lace pattern in my Love Note.

I am having trouble counting and keeping all this straight. Is it hard lace? No. But I am still making a ton of mistake and instead of ripping back I am just making it work. In mohair and this much lace….it will never show!

I have five or six rows of lace left and I can leave this part behind! Just need to buckle down and get to the cruising part of this sweater. Happy Knitting!!

Cast On: Love Note

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I finished my Autumn Gold and it’s football season! Time for my first Pigskin Party 2025 KAL cast on for my Love Note.

Jellybean missed the Chiefs Brazil game when he was at a sleepover. He wanted to see all his favorite YouTubers making cameos….or that is my suspicion. So we watched the recording and I started my sweater! Was the not the Chiefs best outing but we had chili and snuggles. I’ll take that as a win.

I am getting a ton of fuzz in my face and it tickles but the Love Note is off and running!!

Haus Of Yarn Visit

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I took my car to get to Nashville, so I was able to be mobile! I took some time to get off site and visit the LYS. My first stop was Haus of Yarn. And it did not disappoint.

In the Try It On room, I fell in love with a Love Note by Tin Can Knits. I have to make one. So I was looking for yarn specifically for that.

For the Love Note I grabbed two skeins of Old Rusted Chair sock yarn in a variegated purple, some Malabrigo Mohair in a neutral silver-ish color and one skein of Magpie Fibers Swanky DK because I couldn’t resist cashmere.

And this was only first stop! Happy Yarn Fumes!!