Remember when I showed you this?

It’s Noro magazine #17, the fall/winter 2020 edition. I bought it online just because of the jacket on the cover. It’s made of mitred squares and knit in Noro Ito.

The plan was to finish a few things before casting on, but I love knitting mitred squares so that resolution didn’t last too long. I ordered some Noro Ito, which comes in huge balls of 400m each, then cast on. That link will take you to the distributor’s site. The sample in the magazine is knit in colour #4 and I ordered colour #24.

The construction of this is so interesting. You make I-cord which runs along the hem from that front corner where the neck starts on the bodice all the way around to the other side. Then you pick up stitches to knit the first square, which is in the location of that beigey one on her right hip. You make the squares individually on the hem, all the way around to the one under her left hand. Then you make the in-between ones for the back, then for the two fronts.

Here’s my jacket in progress:

At this point, I’m wondering whether the i-cord should have been knitted on a larger needle since it’s tight at the lower points and wants to roll. Hmm.

I love mitred squares because they’re addictive knitting – in a self-striping yarn, they’re even more so. I can finish one or two squares easily each night while watching tv – although I had to write out the directions for the square again to get them right. Now I have it memorized.

I wish the schematic had more measurements, and that the gauge was for a square instead of rows in stockinette stitch. I was so excited to get going that I didn’t swatch so I’m hoping the size is coming out right.

What do you think?