Fade to Light Jacket MAL: Part 4. Lower body

 Hello and welcome to Part 3 of Fade to Light Jacket make-a-long. Today we will be making the sleeves. If you missed previous parts, please check them here: reveal, sizing and gauge, short rows (Part 1), raglan increases (Part 2) and sleeves (Part 3).

Complete Fade to Light Jacket pattern in one print-friendly pdf file is available for purchase HERE on Ravelry or HERE on Etsy (both in English with US terms, and Dutch). Please, note that these files only include written instructions and no progress pictures.  

 

This part is probably the shortest in terms of instructions. You have already been making Spike stitches on the sleeves. And mosaic pattern for the lower body uses the same group of stitches. So hopefully nothing new here.

 

Before you begin with lower body, please, make sure the stitch count after the yoke is multiple of 4 stitches + 3. (It means you should count all your stitches on the lower body, minus three from this number and then the rest should be dividable by four). This is very important to make the beginning and the end of your first row symmetrical. 

 

If your stitch count is not right, you should figure out how many stitches you should add – and make increases accordingly. I recommend frogging last two rows of the yoke and make increases on the first row of those two. 

 

I've recorded a video showing how to do mosaic pattern for the lower body. And in the very end you will see how it is worked in rounds in case you would like add a small cute detail for your cuff.

 

And here are written instructions. Hope you will have fun!  

DUTCH translation is available HERE. Translated by Carmen Jorissen of New Leaf Designs

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INSTRUCTIONS

 

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MOSAIC pattern 

NOTE: For two Whirls version continue alternating cakes at the end of Row 2. 

Row 1 – RS: With B. Ch1, 1sc in first st, 1SPsc, 1sc, [ch1, sk sp, 1sc, 1SPsc, 1sc] to end, turn. 

Row 2 – WS: Ch1, 1sc in first st, [ch1, sk sp or SPsc, 1sc] to end (change back to A in last st), turn. 

Row 3 – RS: With A. Ch1, 1sc in first st, [ch1, sk sp, 1sc, 1SPsc, 1sc] to last sp and sc, ch1, sk sp, 1sc to end, turn. 

Row 4 – WS: Rep Row 2, change to B in last sc, turn. 

Repeat rows 1-4 until Whirl(s) is/are over, then continue with only Yarn B and repeat Row 2 alternating RS and WS until lower body measures approx. 35.5cm/14in from underarm. 

Finish with row on RS working (1sc, ch1, 1sc) in last st. Don’t fasten off and proceed to Bands and Collar (please choose one of two options). 

That was Part 4. See you next week! We will be adding front bands and collar. And (yay!!) our Fade to Light Jacket will be finished!

Complete Fade to Light Jacket pattern in one print-friendly pdf file is available for purchase HERE on Ravelry or HERE on Etsy (both in English with US terms, and Dutch).

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