I was making the medium, but after completing 4 pentagons, realised it was way too big. A quick search on ravelry.com showed me I wasn't alone with size issues. Bec is a size 12 Australian and this fits a much larger 18-20. I have since decided to give this one to another girlfriend, Emma, and make another for Bec. Still having some issues with setting in the sleeves, unfortunately, but a message to 'foxtales' on ravelry.com...my lifeline, that site...has revealed that I am ALSO not the only one to have had issues with the SLEEVES! One lady, Inna, put it quite succinctly I think, that the designer must have been drunk when she wrote the pattern and that the picture taken by Vogue here is NOT quite accurate. I made the mistake of showing the cream jacket to my mum, who loved it so much, she decided to claim one for herself, for Xmas.....hence the purple capecho!  |
| Emma's Capecho |
I have finished the cream capecho of Emma's but not set in the sleeves yet. They've been pinned and unpinned a dozen times! Everything else on the jacket is done. Now that I'm 90% finished with mum's purple jacket, I'm having the same problem...thought maybe it was just me misunderstanding the pattern and that by starting afresh with the second, I could iron out the initial issues, but that's not happening. The panels are pentagons, made up of 5 triangles with a central cable, but the edges around the sleeve are FOUR sides, not 5, so they don't fit. I am going to try this:
cast on enough stitches for 4 triangles and set
THAT into the body of the jacket. Let you know how it goes!
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| Mum's Capecho |
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