New Design: St. Petersburg Coat
From Caron International Yarns:
Color is magical. It can set a mood, brighten a day, send a message. Color plus yarn is even more magical, as demonstrated in Kim Guzman’s stellar St. Petersburg Coat. Just by holding three different colors of merino-blend Country yarn together in the single-crocheted body of this coat, Kim has created a unique fabric that is both sophisticated and fashionable. It’s almost as if Kim created her own “marled” yarn just by combining three coordinating colors. Then for the perfect finishing touch, Kim used just one of the three colors to create the generous shawl collar. It’s magic!
Based on the emails I have received, many of you may have already noticed that I have a new design on the NaturallyCaron website. This design is made using three colors of NaturallyCaron Country, a merino wool blend.
This coat is a wonderful example of what can be done only with single crochet. As difficult as it is to imagine, I used single crochet throughout. The key factor in designing with single crochet is that you can place your hook in different locations of a stitch and get a completely different look.
You can’t see very much of the collar, but it really is my favorite part of this garment. I love the way the texture flows into a pattern, growing with the collar as it grows and extends around the neck.
The body of the coat is made up of three strands of yarn held together. An N hook is used, making this coat stitch up a lot faster than one may think. But, it is quite heavy and thick. For this reason, I intentionally only provided three sizes. There are physics involved in designing a coat like this. Due to its weight, I used physics and algebra to determine how far the coat would “grow” when worn so that I could size the sleeves. I was unwilling to continue my theories into the larger sizes because I was unsure just how far it would grow without stitching it up. Who knew that physics would be so necessary when designing in crochet? 
Brianna really likes the coat. But she actually likes it best without sleeves. So, that’s a thought should anyone want an alternate style.
19 Comments »
Leave a comment
About
 |
Kim Guzman, Knit and Crochet Pattern Designer
You can see my designs on my websites, CrochetKim and Kimane Designs. Or, if you prefer, you can see them on Ravelry. The former WIPs ‘N Chains will no longer be updated but contains four years of data. I have integrated some of the most popular posts from the old site into this new one. |
Books By Kim Guzman Now Available
Now Available at Kimane Designs
It’s just stunning, Kim!
Thank you, Perry!
Just amazing! I love how you combined colors. I am planning on crocheting this one.
Cora
Thank you, Cora!
Lovely design, Kim!
Thank you, Shelby!
I have started working on this sweater and I have one question…The measurement for the body on Row 4-35
more times
Says:
Rows 4–35 (27, 19): Repeat last 2 rows 16 (12,
Why are the larger sizes less rows? I wanted to make sure before I continued. Thanks for the help
janet
In order for the v-neck to be as gradual for the larger sizes as it is for the smaller sizes, it requires that it starts lower. Just a question of algebra.
Kim Guzman http://www.crochetkim.com http://www.kimanedesigns.net
In order for the v-neck to be as gradual for the larger sizes as it is for the smaller sizes, it requires that it starts lower. Just a question of algebra.
Thanks Kim! I understand now. I wanted to let you know that I was trying out this pattern with 2 strands of “Impeccable” yarn and a “M” hook. The gauge is coming out the same so far. I have not been very successful at making sweaters before, because I opt for the cheaper yarn (because of my horrible attempts before I don’t want to buy expensive yarn)it never looks like the picture and it never fits. With your pattern it has the measurements along with the pattern so I know I am on the right track. I will send a pic when I am done. If I am successful it would be the first sweater that I would actually get to wear!
Wonderful! Have fun! Can’t wait to see it.
Kim this coat is absolutely beautiful…one of you best works yet!!! I love it!
Thank you so much, Susan!
Very pretty. I knew that Algebra and Physics would come in handy someday for you, because you were good at it. I never would have imagined it would help you in your designing the way it has. :~) Mom
I have tried to write to both of my algebra teachers from high school to tell them how much they have influenced my career in this unusual way. Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to reach them. There is no way I could contact my trig professor from college, though. It was a 6-week trig class and I think he might have been in the Army, serving at Ft. Hood. Such a short class, so I don’t remember his name at all. Mother, you may not even know that I was in college classes while you were in Italy. I took that 6-week trigonometry class and still made an A. Let’s not talk about my history class, though. LOL
Dear Kim:
Thank you for providing this beautiful pattern–it’s exactly the sort of crocheted coat I’ve been looking for. I just have one question: I’m in the midst of crocheting it in the “large” size. I’ve gotten up to row 32 in the “shape sides” section. I began this section with the proper number of sc stitches in the row. However, according to the pattern, now I’m supposed to have 100 sc in the row, and I only have 92! I’ve gone over what I’ve done, and I don’t see how the discrepancy occurred.
Was there a misprint in the pattern, or has my completely non-algebra-oriented mind failed me? Thank you for whatever advice you can offer!
Let’s see. You start out with 108. I’m also getting confused because of the numbers, so it’s not just you. I promise.
It’s just difficult to try to figure it out when it’s not the way I wrote it originally. But, let me see what I’ve got.
After checking and double-checking, it appears that the numbers are incorrect. And, it looks like what you have is correct.
Shaping:
Row 1: 106 sts
Row 5: 104 sts
Row 9: 102 sts
Row 13: 100 sts
Row 17: 98 sts
Row 21: 96 sts
Row 25: 94 sts
Row 29: 92 sts
Row 33: 90 sts (and, it looks like the numbers are correct here)
Hope that helps! And, thank you so much for catching the numbers! I’ll let the company know so that it can be changed.
Here is my change. Note that I have also made a change to the next shaping row:
Shaping….
Rows 9–16 (24, 32) Repeat Rows 1–8 of shaping 1 (2, 3) times—82 (88, 92) sc.
Rows 17 (25, 33)–20 (28, 36): Repeat Rows 1–4 of shaping once more—80 (86, 90) sc.
Great, thank you so much!