This month has been busy, but I finally got a chance to make my Wiksten Kimono jacket from a spontaneous fabric purchase (I only wanted the pattern and I got carried away!) — I love that my weekends are primarily full of knitting or sewing projects, especially now that it’s been raining nonstop for days.

I’ve worn it almost every day since I made it, and I keep forgetting to take proper pictures of it, but here’s one I took for my new Wardrobe Airtable (more on that later):

A black jacket with light grey polka-dot lining is on a hanger.

I used a very drapey black twill for the outer and cotton for the liner, and split the collar in half — the under-collar is the lining, and I love when it peeks out a little bit. I also couldn’t decide between a Medium and a Large, so I split the difference and made myself a M/L, which I’m ridiculously happy with — the fit is exactly what I wanted. It’s the coziest thing I’ve ever made and I am just going to keep living in it until it gets too cold for that.

I already have plans to make about three more of these, but I think next up on my outerwear list is the Kelly Anorak.

I also started knitting my Zweig Sweater this week - it’s been on my list for a while, and I finally found the perfect color combination. A couple weeks ago I drove over to Tolt Yarn and Wool for their Farmers Daughter Fibers trunk show, and picked up this gorgeous skein of Foxy Lady with pink, white, and grey. On the drive home I decided I would use it as the contrast color for Zweig, and would find a nice grey somewhere for the main color. A couple weeks later, I was going through my stash to find an easy travel project came across these three skeins of Fidalgo Artisan Yarns back in February at Madrona, and would you believe the colors matched perfectly?!

Four balls of yarn - three brown, one white and pink variegated, in a diamond pattern.

I’m halfway through the lace part and love the way they’re knitting up together. It’s funny, when I knit fingering weight sweaters I always bounce back and forth between “wow, this is going so quickly!” and “I’ve been knitting this one row FOR EVER”. Is that how everyone else feels?