Here’s a FO that has just flown off the needles – The Rock It tee by Tanis Lavallee

I’m so happy with this! I’ll show you my FO first…

I fell in love with this at the Unravel Yarn Festival at Farnham Maltings in Surrey in February. Unravel is a wonderful yarn fest on independent makers and producers of all things knitterly, crochet, spinning and a few other crafts – (If you missed out there is Unravel Autumn coming up in September 😀 )

I saw the Rock It Tee made up in these colours to showcase the beautiful yarns of Fruitful Fusion, a small hand dyed yarn company. They had only one pack left of the yarns in these colourways in 50g skeins – Ishrat (the Owner) helpfully warned me I’m have half the yarn left over (which I have!) but I had to have it. She was spot on BTW – I used 26g of each colour and 32g of the blue because I did the I-cord edging in it. 188g of yarn if you are looking for a stashbusting idea 😉

The pattern in knit top down. The start of the yoke knit back and forth to create the V neck, then knit in the round.

There is a cute eyelet detail on the raglans and where the side seam would be…

The original pattern calls for 4 rows of Lace weight mohair held double, alternated with a fingering weight yarn – Here’s the original pattern pic so you can see what I mean…

I just cycled through 4 rows of each of my 7 delicious colours.

There is a very neat I-cord edging too – all around the neck, armholes and hem…

The only problems with the pattern where choosing my size and when I came to the increase round after separating for the sleeves. There are three increase types labelled A, B and C. You perform them at different intervals depending on your size. There are a lot of questions (and helpful answers from Tanis) on the pattern’s Ravelry comments if you are stuck. I just made sure I ended up with the right number of stitches…Any blunders would be in my arm pit – I’m guessing no one will be going there to inspect my knitting!

For the sizing the pattern is in actual measurements and suggests a 6″ (15cm) positive ease. Usually wear a 34″ chest garment so knit the 38″ (4″ ease) cos I don’t like things too roomy. I’m really happy with the fit on me 😀

A couple of last shots so you can see my Rock It and I’ll give you a Completed Knit Report

Completed Knit Report
Name:	Rock It Tee
Pattern:	The Rock It tee by Tanis Lavallee
Yarn:	Fruitful Fusion 4 ply Superwash (25% nylon, 75% Merino)
Pattern Problems:	Increase rows at armhole confusingly worded, I also struggled to decide on which size – I guessed right though 🙂
Pattern Modifications:	Knit in just 4ply (fingering) and skipped the mohair
Washing and Wearing:	To hot here to wear yet – A little worried if the colours will hold in the yarn – I’ll report back!
Knit It Again???:	Yes! Yes! Yes!
Difficulty:	2/5 Really easy if you have ever done top down.
Rating:	4/5
Other Postings Relating To This One:	None