The Great Adult Tomten Garter Two Person Knitalong
The garter bug has fully bitten and Jared and I were powerless against the lure of Elizabeth Zimmermann’s Adult Tomten Jacket. The pointy hood! The squishy wool knit in extra squishy garter stitch! Garter edgings in contrasting colors! We discovered we really wanted to dress like gnomes. So, we ordered yarn and waited. It seemed like we waited a long time, because we were really excited to get the excellent yarns we chose.
Rowan Yorkshire Tweed Chunky
10 balls of Stout and 2 of Flaming
Keeping my fingers crossed that’s enough. Jared got really good stuff, too.
There’s been some knitting already.
We’re both making some changes to the pattern, which is found in The Opinionated Knitter and Knitting Workshop. I’ve added a few stitches and am doing waist shaping at the side seam. Chunky yarn + garter stitch can = wearing a barrel, so hopefully the shaping will help in that area. There will be a lot of holding the sweater up to myself to make sure everything fits properly, and buttons need to be decided upon, but other than that, smooth sailing is expected. It will have a brown body with red button band/ hood edging and red cuffs.
Inspiration:
SpiderWoman Knits’ version and another view
That kid is appropriately excited about his jacket. I think mine needs split cuffs like that one.
Mama K
The coloring and buttons on that one are perfection.
Jared, go post so everyone can see what you’re up to!
Rachel wrote:
That yarn looks sooo yummy! Cant wait to see the progress.
Posted on 31-May-07 at 11:47 am | Permalink
j a r e d wrote:
It’s official now. No turning back.
I’m giddy!
Posted on 31-May-07 at 12:08 pm | Permalink
Siri wrote:
Oh, this is going to be so good!
Posted on 31-May-07 at 12:46 pm | Permalink
Jules wrote:
Pardon me while I drool over the Yorkshire Tweed. Can’t wait to see the jacket!
Posted on 31-May-07 at 1:05 pm | Permalink
Shannon wrote:
I’m really looking forward to seeing your progress on the this project. I’ve wanted to knit an adult version on this when I saw your baby version finished!
Posted on 31-May-07 at 1:12 pm | Permalink
Julia wrote:
How very cool. I’ excited to see where you two take it!
Posted on 31-May-07 at 1:59 pm | Permalink
Valerie wrote:
There’s a linear, uncluttered, Shaker-ish, (Japanese even?) perfection to your projects. And who wouldn’t want to dress like a gnome?
Posted on 31-May-07 at 2:30 pm | Permalink
kristin wrote:
Something just jumped onto my Ravelry queue! I have some great Beaverslide in the stash that would be PERFECT for that…
Adrian, you and Jared are an inspiration to knitters everywhere!
Posted on 31-May-07 at 3:37 pm | Permalink
Peggy wrote:
Gorgeous, I want one!!!!
Posted on 31-May-07 at 4:30 pm | Permalink
Asaknitter wrote:
Oh, I love that Rowan yarn - made some really nice slippers with it. Have fun making Tomten.
Posted on 31-May-07 at 4:40 pm | Permalink
Abbey wrote:
oh, I love the tweed! Just seeing it makes me think of crisp fall days, apple pie, and Rhinebeck!
Posted on 31-May-07 at 5:46 pm | Permalink
Arleta wrote:
Those are going to be some cute jackets.
Posted on 01-Jun-07 at 8:22 am | Permalink
filambulle wrote:
Go for tomten!
Actually my daughter’s one suit me too. She has a large and roomy jacket with turned up cuffs to grow in, I have a nicely fitted little jacket with hoodie. But I won’t stole her, no.
I will knit one for me sooner or later. Have fun!
Posted on 01-Jun-07 at 9:09 am | Permalink
isel wrote:
This is very intriguing and exciting. I can’t wait to see each version.
Posted on 01-Jun-07 at 9:45 am | Permalink
Jen wrote:
I can’t wait to see your modifications. I tried to do this very thing myself and really did not like the results, especially with the grim-reaper-like hood. But I would love to have a jacket like this and hope to learn a lot from your mods!
http://friender.blogspot.com/2007/05/rip-egg-jacket.html
Posted on 01-Jun-07 at 10:07 am | Permalink
Amy wrote:
This is very exciting! I have been thinking about knitting an adult size one for myself as soon as I finish this baby one. Y’all are an inspiration.
Posted on 01-Jun-07 at 10:40 am | Permalink
merete wrote:
it is surely exciting. especially since someone has been begging me to knit one since december when i made a little one for her daughter in rowanspun and yorkshire tweed. i am sure it will be an epidemi once you and jared finish yours. if you need more yarn try janettes rare yarn on ebay. she has a good offer on yorkshire tweed. garter stitch is so wool consuming.
Posted on 01-Jun-07 at 1:14 pm | Permalink
E to the M wrote:
I love the yarn!
Posted on 01-Jun-07 at 2:04 pm | Permalink
Peggy wrote:
Oddly, I just started an adult tomten too, using my first hand-dyed yarn. I can’t wait to see your progress!
Posted on 02-Jun-07 at 1:57 am | Permalink
hpny knits wrote:
you guys picked fab yarns!
Posted on 02-Jun-07 at 8:47 am | Permalink
Chelee wrote:
Wonderful Project. I too have wanted to make the adult tomtem jacket.
So excited to see your and Jared’s progress.
Posted on 04-Jun-07 at 12:48 pm | Permalink
Natalie wrote:
What a great project. As always, the more, the merrier! Have fun.
Posted on 07-Jun-07 at 5:50 pm | Permalink
Annie wrote:
I can’t wait to see how it comes out. I’m pretty sure I have a couple skeins of both those colors buried someplace, so if you get stuck on yardage, let me know!
Posted on 20-Aug-07 at 1:06 am | Permalink