Paris Geller Sweater in Die Jerk

 

I’ve been binge watching the Gilmore Girls for a while now and whilst watching episode 8 from season 4, “Die Jerk” I got obsessed with this sweater that Paris Geller was wearing. I have a lot of random colours that I thought might go well for this project and got a few screenShots of the jumper itself and then found an outline pattern from another Ravelry user’s project: maikinchen’s Paris Geller Sweater (you'll need to log in to Ravelry to see this)
Using TECHknitting's Jogless stripes - pretty picture version for jogless stripes and the russian join as the yarn is very slippery and I worry when I wear this I’ll accidentally let it unravel.

My Version:

Gilmore Girls: Season 4 Episode 8 die jerk, 20 mins in

Yarn: king cole smooth dk

Hook: 3.75mm

Needles: 4mm

Crochet Section
Row 1: With Spearmint green, Foundation treble crochet 126 stitches and join (eventually looks like 42 shells)
Row 2: lemon, join, granny crochet shells with no chain stitches between shells, raglan increase for arm holes at 8 shells, 13 shells, 8 shells, 13 shells (46 shells)
Row 3: aqua, join increase at corners (50 shells)
Row 4: pewter, join, increase at corners (54 shells)
Row 5:rose, join increase at corners (58 shells)
Row 6: Sky, join increase at corners (62 shells)
Row 7: aqua join increase at corners (66 shells)
Row 8: pewter, join increase at corners (70 shells)
Row 9: lemon, join increase at corners (74 shells)
Row 10: rose, join increase at corners (78 shells)
Row 11: spearmint, join increase at corners (82 shells)
Row 12: aqua, join, work round, no increases (82 shells)

It was at this point I tried it on to see how this fitted around the neckline and realised it was a little too broad for my liking so I added 2 more granny rows to the neck (pewter, then sky), then added a row of (HTR, HTR2tog) around and a last row of HTR around (85 stitches) both in spearmint. This gave it a more rounded and smaller neckline

Row 13: spearmint, work to the first corner and foundation treble crochet 3 more and join to next corner, this will form the first sleeve with 19 shells:

Break yarn. Join at next corner and repeat to form the second sleeve.
Finally, join the yarn at one corner and work round in the granny squares until you get to the first extended section in the sleeve, work each stitch as individual treble crochet stitches and then continue on in the granny pattern until the second sleeve is reached, repeating the process of crocheting in the individual stitches. This will form the body and hopefully mean that you don’t end up with holey armpits!

Row 14: pewter, work body and sleeves in granny shells
Row 15: Sky, work body and sleeves in granny shells

Knitted Body Section
Row 1: continue with Sky, pick up stitches for knitting using 4mm circular needles one stitch for every crochet stitch, place stitch markers at each side (roughly the centres of the shells where the sleeves are) ready for waist shaping,

Row 2: work 1 more row in sky,
Row 3-8: 6 lemon,
Row 9-15: 7 aqua,
Row 16-19: 4 pewter

Row 20, start decreases for 25 rows in below colours

Row 20: pewter, K1, ssk, knit straight until 3 sts before "side marker," k2tog, k1, sl m, k1, ssk, knit straight until 3 sts before "beginning marker," k2tog, k1
Row 21-23: 3 pewter,

Row 24: spearmint, K1, ssk, knit straight until 3 sts before "side marker," k2tog, k1, sl m, k1, ssk, knit straight until 3 sts before "beginning marker," k2tog, k1
Row 25-27: 3 spearmint knit straight
Row 28-32: 5 Sky, knit straight

Row 33: rose, K1, ssk, knit straight until 3 sts before "side marker," k2tog, k1, sl m, k1, ssk, knit straight until 3 sts before "beginning marker," k2tog, k1.
Row 34: rose, knit
Row 35-37: lemon, Knit straight

Row 38: lemon, K1, ssk, knit straight until 3 sts before "side marker," k2tog, k1, sl m, k1, ssk, knit straight until 3 sts before "beginning marker," k2tog, k1.
Row 39: lemon, k straight
Row 40-42: Sky, Knit straight

Row 43: pewter, K1, ssk, knit straight until 3 sts before "side marker," k2tog, k1, sl m, k1, ssk, knit straight until 3 sts before "beginning marker," k2tog, k1.
Row 44-47:pewter, Knit straight

Row 48: pewter, K1, ssk, knit straight until 3 sts before "side marker," k2tog, k1, sl m, k1, ssk, knit straight until 3 sts before "beginning marker," k2tog, k1.
Row 49-52: 4 grape, Knit straight

Row 53: start increases for 25 rows in below colours:
Row 53: 1 aqua, K1, m1, knit until 3 sts before "side marker," m1, k1, sl m, k1, m1, knit until 3 sts before "beginning marker," m1, k1.
Rows 54: 1 aqua, Knit straight
Row 55-57: 3 pewter, Knit straight

Row58: 1 pewter, K1, m1, knit until 3 sts before "side marker," m1, k1, sl m, k1, m1, knit until 3 sts before "beginning marker," m1, k1.
Rows 59-61: 3pewter, knit straight
Row 62: 1 Sky, Knit straight

Row63:  1 Sky, K1, m1, knit until 3 sts before "side marker," m1, k1, sl m, k1, m1, knit until 3 sts before "beginning marker," m1, k1.
Rows 64-67: 4 Sky, Knit straight

Row68: 1 Sky, K1, m1, knit until 3 sts before "side marker," m1, k1, sl m, k1, m1, knit until 3 sts before "beginning marker," m1, k1.
Rows 69: 1 Sky, knit straight
Row 70-72: 2 spearmint, Knit straight

Row 73: 1 spearmint K1, m1, knit until 3 sts before "side marker," m1, k1, sl m, k1, m1, knit until 3 sts before "beginning marker," m1, k1.
Rows 74-77: 4 aqua, Knit straight

Row 78: 1 aqua, K1, m1, knit until 3 sts before "side marker," m1, k1, sl m, k1, m1, knit until 3 sts before "beginning marker," m1, k1.
Rows 79-81: 3 rose Knit straight
Rows 82: 1 grape Knit straight

Row 83: 1 grape, K1, m1, knit until 3 sts before "side marker," m1, k1, sl m, k1, m1, knit until 3 sts before "beginning marker," m1, k1.
Rows 84-87:  4 aqua, Knit straight

Row 88: 1 aqua, K1, m1, knit until 3 sts before "side marker," m1, k1, sl m, k1, m1, knit until 3 sts before "beginning marker," m1, k1.
Row 89:  1 aqua, Knit straight
Row 90-92: 3 spearmint

Row 93: 1 spearmint, K1, m1, knit until 3 sts before "side marker," m1, k1, sl m, k1, m1, knit until 3 sts before "beginning marker," m1, k1.
Row 94:  1 spearmint, Knit straight
Row 95-97: 3 lemon

Row 98: 1 lemon, K1, m1, knit until 3 sts before "side marker," m1, k1, sl m, k1, m1, knit until 3 sts before "beginning marker," m1, k1.
Row 99-102:  4 lemon, Knit straight

Row 103: 1 lemon, K1, m1, knit until 3 sts before "side marker," m1, k1, sl m, k1, m1, knit until 3 sts before "beginning marker," m1, k1.
Row 104:  1 lemon, Knit straight
Rows 105-111: 7 sky, Knit straight
Rows 112-115: 4 rose, Knit straight

Row 116: 1 grape, Knit straight
Rows 117-126:  10 grape, K2 P2

BO with super stretchy bindoff

Sleeves:
Row 1: pewter, granny
Row 2: Sky, granny
Row 3: continue with Sky, and pick up stitches (57 stitches)
Row 4: Sky, k round

Row 5: lemon, Decrease Round: K1, k2tog, k to last 3 sts, ssk, k1. (55 stitches)
Row 6-10: 5 lemon.
Row 11-17: 7 aqua,
Row 18: pewter

Row 19: pewter, Decrease Round: K1, k2tog, k to last 3 sts, ssk, k1. (53 stitches)
Row 20-25: 6 pewter
Row 26-29: 4 spearmint
Row 30-33: 4 sky

Row 34: Sky, Decrease Round: K1, k2tog, k to last 3 sts, ssk, k1. (51 stitches)
Row 35-36: 2 rose
Row 37-42: 6 lemon
Row 43-45: 3 sky
Row 46-51: 6 pewter,
Row 52-55: 4 grape
Row 56-57: 2 aqua,
Row 58-64: 7 pewter
Row 65-72: 8 sky
Row 73-76: 4 spearmint
Row 77-81: 5 aqua,
Row 82-84: 3 rose
Row 85-86: 2 grape
Row 87-92: 6 aqua,
Row 93-97: 5 spearmint
Row 98-107: 10 lemon,

Row 108: Sky, Decrease Round: K1, k2tog, k to last 3 sts, ssk, k1. (49 stitches)
Row 109-114: 6 sky
Row 115-117: 3 rose

Row 118: rose, Decrease Round: K1, k2tog, k to last 3 sts, ssk, k1. (47 stitches)
Row 119: 1 grape, Knit straight
Rows 120-134:  15 grape, [K1, k1 tbl, p1] to end BO

BO with super stretchy bindoff


Colour order:

Crochet Granny Colours:
spearmint
sky
pewter
spearmint
lemon
aqua,
pewter
rose
sky
aqua,
pewter
Lemon
Rose
Spearmint
aqua,
spearmint
pewter
sky

Knitted Section Colours:
2 Sky
6 Lemon
7 aqua,
8 pewter
4 spearmint
5 sky
2 rose
5 lemon
3 Sky,
6 pewter
4 grape
2 aqua,
7pewter,
8 Sky,
4 spearmint
5 aqua,
3 rose
2 grape
6 aqua,
5 spearmint
10 lemon,
7 Sky
4 rose,
11 grape

Colour scheme based on biscuits & jam random stripes generator: http://www.biscuitsandjam.com/stripe_maker.php

Finished dimensions (flat)


length from centre of neck to base of jumper: 58cm
smallest point at waist: 35cm
widest point at top of ribbing: 44.5cm
armpit to armpit: 46cm
length of sleeve from neck to end of ribbed sleeve: 63cm

For the knitted body & arm sections without colours:

Knitted Body Section

Row 1: pick up stitches for knitting using 4mm circular needles one stitch for every crochet stitch, place stitch markers at each side (roughly the centres of the shells where the sleeves are) ready for waist shaping,

Row 2-19: knit straight

Row 20, start decreases for 25 rows

Row 20:  K1, ssk, knit straight until 3 sts before "side marker," k2tog, k1, sl m, k1, ssk, knit straight until 3 sts before "beginning marker," k2tog, k1

Row 21-23: 3 knit straight

Row 24: K1, ssk, knit straight until 3 sts before "side marker," k2tog, k1, sl m, k1, ssk, knit straight until 3 sts before "beginning marker," k2tog, k1

Row 25-32: 8 knit straight

Row 33: K1, ssk, knit straight until 3 sts before "side marker," k2tog, k1, sl m, k1, ssk, knit straight until 3 sts before "beginning marker," k2tog, k1.

Row 34-37: Knit straight

Row 38: K1, ssk, knit straight until 3 sts before "side marker," k2tog, k1, sl m, k1, ssk, knit straight until 3 sts before "beginning marker," k2tog, k1.

Row 39-42: Knit straight

Row 43:  K1, ssk, knit straight until 3 sts before "side marker," k2tog, k1, sl m, k1, ssk, knit straight until 3 sts before "beginning marker," k2tog, k1.

Row 44-47: Knit straight

Row 48:  K1, ssk, knit straight until 3 sts before "side marker," k2tog, k1, sl m, k1, ssk, knit straight until 3 sts before "beginning marker," k2tog, k1.

Row 49-52: Knit straight

Row 53: start increases for 25 rows

Row 53: K1, m1, knit until 3 sts before "side marker," m1, k1, sl m, k1, m1, knit until 3 sts before "beginning marker," m1, k1.

Rows 54-57: Knit straight

Row58: K1, m1, knit until 3 sts before "side marker," m1, k1, sl m, k1, m1, knit until 3 sts before "beginning marker," m1, k1.

Rows 59-62: 4 Knit straight

Row63: K1, m1, knit until 3 sts before "side marker," m1, k1, sl m, k1, m1, knit until 3 sts before "beginning marker," m1, k1.

Rows 64-67: Knit straight

Row68: K1, m1, knit until 3 sts before "side marker," m1, k1, sl m, k1, m1, knit until 3 sts before "beginning marker," m1, k1.

Rows 69-72: 4 Knit straight

Row 73: 1  K1, m1, knit until 3 sts before "side marker," m1, k1, sl m, k1, m1, knit until 3 sts before "beginning marker," m1, k1.

Rows 74-77: 4 Knit straight

Row 78: K1, m1, knit until 3 sts before "side marker," m1, k1, sl m, k1, m1, knit until 3 sts before "beginning marker," m1, k1.

Rows 79- 82: 4 Knit straight

Row 83: K1, m1, knit until 3 sts before "side marker," m1, k1, sl m, k1, m1, knit until 3 sts before "beginning marker," m1, k1.

Rows 84-87:  4 , Knit straight

Row 88: K1, m1, knit until 3 sts before "side marker," m1, k1, sl m, k1, m1, knit until 3 sts before "beginning marker," m1, k1.

Row 89-92: 3 

Row 93: K1, m1, knit until 3 sts before "side marker," m1, k1, sl m, k1, m1, knit until 3 sts before "beginning marker," m1, k1.

Row 94-97: 3 

Row 98: K1, m1, knit until 3 sts before "side marker," m1, k1, sl m, k1, m1, knit until 3 sts before "beginning marker," m1, k1.

Row 99-102:  4 , Knit straight

Row 103: K1, m1, knit until 3 sts before "side marker," m1, k1, sl m, k1, m1, knit until 3 sts before "beginning marker," m1, k1.

Row 104-115: 4 , Knit straight

Row 116: Knit straight

Rows 117-126:  10 , K2 P2

BO with super stretchy bindoff

Sleeves:

Row 1-2: granny

Row 3: pick up stitches (57 stitches)

Row 4: k round

Row 5: Decrease Round: K1, k2tog, k to last 3 sts, ssk, k1. (55 stitches)

Row 6-18:  knit straight

Row 19:  Decrease Round: K1, k2tog, k to last 3 sts, ssk, k1. (53 stitches)

Row 20-33: knit straight

Row 34: Decrease Round: K1, k2tog, k to last 3 sts, ssk, k1. (51 stitches)

Row 35-107: knit straight

Row 108: Decrease Round: K1, k2tog, k to last 3 sts, ssk, k1. (49 stitches)

Row 109-117: knit straight

Row 118: Decrease Round: K1, k2tog, k to last 3 sts, ssk, k1. (47 stitches)

Row 119: Knit straight

Rows 120-134:  15 , [K1, k1 tbl, p1] to end BO

BO with super stretchy bindoff

Simple knitted arm warmers pt2

Attempting this as a pair for me using some standard yarn (King Cole Melody - Sonata)

Cast on 31 on 4mm needles, join to make 30 stitches around.
Rows 1-10: k1p1 (30st)
Row 11: k30
Row 12: k14, k2tog, k14, k2tog (28st)
Row 13-50: k28

Row 51: k1, m1, k26, m1, k1 (30st)
Row 52-57: k30
Row 58: k1, m1, k28, m1, k1 (32st)
Row 59: k32 around
Row 60: k32, turn

making the thumbhole, at the end of each row make sure you do not join each round
Row 61: p32 turn
Row 62: k32, turn
Row 63: p32 turn
Row 64: k32, turn
Row 65: p32 turn
Row 66: k32, turn
Row 67: p32 turn

Row 68: k32, turn
Row 69: p32 turn
Row 70: k32, turn
Row 71: p32 turn

Row 72: k2tog, k28, k2tog turn (30st)
Row 73: p30 turn

after the thumbhole, join the rounds:

Row 74: k30 and join
Row 75-82: k30 around

bind off

The finished measurements are:
Length: 28.5cm
width at base: 17cm (circumference)
width at hand: 14cm (circumference)

Simple Knitted Arm Warmers

Ok so maybe knitting is the dark side but it does make yarn go further. 

This is just something that I've made up as I've gone along, hopefully it's not too confusing!

Cast on 31 on 8mm needles, join to make 30 stitches around.
Rows 1-5: k1p1 (30st)

Switch to 6mm needles 

Rows 6-10: k1p1 (30st)
Row 11: k30
Row 12: k14, k2tog, k14, k2tog (28st) 
Row 13-40: k28
Row 41: k1, m1, k26, m1, k1 (30st) 
Row 42-47: k30 
Row 48: k1, m1, k28, m1, k1 (32st) 
Row 49: k32 around 
Row 50: k32, turn

making the thumbhole, at the end of each row make sure you do not join each round
Row 51: p32 turn
Row 52: k32, turn
Row 53: p32 turn 
Row 54: k32, turn
Row 55: p32 turn
Row 56: k32, turn 
Row 57: p32 turn
Row 58: k2tog, k28, k2tog turn (30st)
Row 59: p30 turn

after the thumbhole, join the rounds:

Row 60: k30 and join
Row 60-65: k30 around

bind off

The finished measurements are:
Length: 37cm
width at base: 24cm (circumference)
width at hand: 20cm (circumference)

I used some cotton worsted yarn which isn't widely available.
The skein I used was approximately 173.0 meters (at 200g) and I used about 137g so 119 metres for two mitts, hopefully this is accurate but should I make this pattern in a standard yarn I will state those figures too.

Noah's Ark and hot air balloon scout

A friend of mine is having a baby and she loves handmade things (yay!!) means I can make another blanket, she’s shown me a couple of grobags she found on http://www.jojomamanbebe.co.uk that she couldn’t decide between, I said I’d incorporate both.

I don’t know if this is going to work but I’m thinking part appliqué with surface crochet to fix it to the blanket, I’m also thinking of being a bit more liberal with the colours (she has been known to like my other work and loves Lucy’s attic 24 and cath kidston )

Photos included of the inspirational grobags:

       

For the “water” I’m thinking blues with the neat ripple pattern by Lucy @ attic24

Colours used:

Teal

Petrol 

Denim 
Aster 
Turquoise 
Aspen 
Sherbet

Above the water I thought I could try to make some hills with a semi-circle of green, this would show off the ripples and give an interesting texture for baby.

After doing the ripples portion I decided to use the alternate bobble stitch for the hill and a shell stitch for the sky in Cloud Blue

At the same time I worked on the appliqué animals and ark

 

And then fixed these to the main blanket by sewing

I added some details using surface crochet:

Next I worked on making a hot air balloon basket using the basket stitch and Copper coloured yarn

The hot air balloon was next

And then the sun

And finally the rainbow and strings for the balloon were done in surface crochet

So the finished size was about 3ft in height and 5ft in width and took me about 18 days

Cup Cake

Cake

Start with caramel magic loop for “biscuit” base
Rd 1: 6st
Rd 2: 12st
Rd 3: 24 st
Rd 4: 2sc, 1sc around 36st
Rd 5: even
Rd 6: * 2sc in same st, 5 sc in each st* round 42st
Rd 7: * 2sc in same st, 6 sc in each st* round 56st
Rd 8: * 2sc in same st, 7 sc in each st* round 63st
Rd 9: * 2sc in same st, 8 sc in each st* round 60st
Rd 10: blo 60st
Rd 11-14: even

switch to chocolate
Rd15-25: 60 sts
Rd 26: 2sc every 15 st, sc otherwise round, 64 st
Rd 27: flo 64st
Rd 28: 64st
Rd 29: 2sctog every 15 st, 60 st
Rd 30: 2sctog every 10 st, 54st
Rd 31: 2sctog every 9 st, 45
Rd 32: 2sctog every 6 st 42st
Rd 33: 2sctog every 5 st 35st
Rd 34: 2sctog every 4st 24st
Rd 35: 2sctog every 3st 20st
Rd 36: 2sctog every 2st to close

For case

case base

Magic ring 6st
Rd 1: 2sc around 12 st
Rd 2: 1sc, 2sc in same st round 21st
Rd 3: 2sc, 2sc in same st round 24st
Rd 4: 3sc 2sc in same st round 30st
Rd 5: 4sc 2sc in same st round 36st
Rd 6: 5sc 2sc in same st round 42 st
Rd 7: 6sc 2sc in same st round 48st
Rd 8: 7sc 2sc in same st round 54st
Rd 9: 8sc 2sc in same st round 60st
Rd 10 9sc 2sc in same st round 66st

case side
Ch 10
Row 1-10: blo 9st
Row 11: blo 5sc, slst, ch 1 to turn
Row 12: blo 6sc
Row 13-20: blo 9st
Row 20-30: blo 9st
Row 31: blo 5sc, slst, ch 1 to turn
Row 32: blo 6sc
Row 33-40: blo 9st
Row 41-50: blo 9st
Row 51: blo 5sc, slst, ch 1 to turn
Row 52: blo 6sc
Row 53-60: blo 9st
Row 62-66: blo 9st
join row 66 to row 1
join to case base

place cake inside case:

icing
chain 126
row 1: 125 st blo
row 2-3: switch colour blo 125st
row 4-5: switch colour blo 125st
join row 5 to row 1 with sc along

twist your icing sausage and curl around, sew in place:

Blackberry playbook case

Yarn: Wendy Cotton DK
Hook size: 4.0mm or G
Dimensions: 194mm x 10mm x 130mm

Ch 25
Round 1: 24 hdc in each chain, 2hdc in 25th chain, 24 hdc on back of each chain, 2hdc (50 st around)
Hdc around for 20cm

Cluster Wrist Warmers

Ch 10.
Note: For rows 1 through 32 in wrist ribbing, sc in back loop only.
Row 1: Sc in 2nd ch from hook, sc in each ch across, ch 1, turn. 9 sc.
Rows 2 - 24: Sc in each sc across, ch 1, turn.
Row 23: Bring row 1 to meet row 24, matching stitches. Sl st row 1 and row 22 together.
12 ridges made.

round 1: Dc, ch2,sc in fourth chain from hook (bg cluster), *sk next 2 chs, [2dc, ch2, sc] in next ch* repeat around (12 clusters)
round 2-7: [2dc, ch2, sc] around (12 clusters)

round 8: (Creating thumb space) Sl st in next 7 stitches, [2dc, ch2, sc] around for 11 clusters (You have skipped
one cluster to make the thumb opening.)
round 9: 4ch [2dc, ch2, sc] around for 11 clusters
Round 10: dc in 2nd chain, [2dc, ch2, sc] around for 11 clusters
round 10: 2dc across cluster, 2dc in next cluster [2dc, ch2, sc] around for 9 clusters