#mika tee

[koniknits]

Took my Mika tee on family holiday.

I'm knitting in silk but it feels more like linen. Wonder what it's going to be like once it's been washed.

Gauge is a mess. I'm already at such tiny needles and mine is still bigger. Combined with the negative ease it's doing my head in. So I'm making size 4 and hoping for the best.

Speaking of, something about how this pattern is written makes it hard to parse for me. Also things like telling you to place 5 stitch markers and then later telling you that one of those five does something different than the other 4 - tell me that up front so I can pick one different color

[silas-knits]

Mika Tee is all knit, ends woven in, and blocked!

Pattern: Mika Tee, size 3 // Yarn: Malabrigo Mola in Pocion // Needles: 2.25mm // GerTw c /o and JSS b/o // Difficulty: 2.5/5; need to know german short rows, picking up stitches, dropping stitches, and basic knit/purl stitching. Intermediate knitter would be comfortable making this.

The colorway has grown on me! I still may over-dye it black in the future. The finished piece came out a bit looser than intended, but I think it still fits well. Since this is a silk yarn, there isn't much stretch to it, so that may be for the best.

Modifications made to pattern:

Not many this time! I did more rapid increases for waist shaping, and that's about it. I realized about 20 rows into the body that the waist wasn't decreasing enough, so started doing a decrease every other row to decrease more rapidly. The way my body is shaped means that I have about a single size difference between my shoulders/bust and my waist, so this is par for the course for garment shaping for me. I also knit the sleeves a bit shorter.

[silas-knits]

Mika tee is all knit!! I just need to weave in ends and wash/block, and it's all finished!