My Mini Rings Of Change Jacket!

Today I've completed this jacket!

More details how I made it

in this blogpost

but first some other words...

This year is coming to an end

& I guess I won't have the time

to write another blogpost in 2015...

Tomorrow I'm travelling

to Bavaria to visit my parents

& a couple of days later

I'm already sitting on a plane to London!

I will spend Christmas & New Year's Eve

with my prince Alex

& his lovely family!

And I will meet a real special friend again:

Lin of Crochet in Colour!

Exciting!

It's been another productive year

and I had great fun with a lot of

Finished Objects -

& also with my works in progress

I've been playing around!

On the other hand there were

loads of less bright happenings

in world politics.

Times are changing

& this planet has become more insecure.

Europe can't close it's eyes anymore

because of the wars going on.

Millions of people had to leave their countries

to look for shelter

& to save their lives.

Terrorism has caused

lots of tears & sadness

in Europe & the USA.

I'm living in Germany at the moment

& it's becoming more radical.

The refugee crisis

has split this nation into

2 different positions

& it's causing more & more violence.

Refugee shelters were

set on fire hundreds of times this year,

protests are ending in riots.

I've spent the weekend in Berlin

visiting friends

& someone said to me:

"You are from Leipzig, aren't you?

Do you know what's going on

there at the moment?"

I watched what has happened in my city

straight next to the place I'm working:

It was the worst idea ever

to organize an anti-refugee-protest

walking through a left-wing district of Leipzig...

69 police officers & probably

a much higher number of people got hurt,

destruction all over.

There's nothing I'd wish more for 2016

that there could be a change to a more peaceful world.

Noa, a friend from Berlin, showed me this 

beautiful video last weekend,

so much truth & so much hope.

It's in french with english subtitles

& is presented

by the wonderful strong Lady Keny Arkana.

In the end we are all

brothers & sisters

on a weird planet,

let's stand together

& let's keep our humanity & our hearts

in all this chaos.

If everyone on this planet would

be a crocheter this world could be so much better!

People would have problems like:

"No!!! I'm running out of the yarn 

I need to finish this blanket!"

or

"Damn! I made a mistake 3 rows ago!"

Just a dream...

***

Sooo... But now something about my new jacket!

I always wanted to crochet

Frank O'Randle's

"Rings Of Change" blanket

but actually I have enough blankets!

His Mini Rings Of Change

is a free pattern

& you can make a glorious baby blanket 

- or a circle jacket!

I followed the pattern until round 27.

Round 27 was perfect for making the armholes:

Instead of just scs around

I started this way:

ch 25, skipped 25 stitches,

30 stitches

ch 25, skipped 25 stitches

scs all around

ended with a slipstitch in first chain

(This worked perfectly for my size

if your arms need more space

try it with 30 chains

& skipping 30 stitches...

Try it on!

Not enough?

Increase the chains & skipped stitches

& also the number of stitches

between the arms!)

Then I just worked the pattern till the end!

Sleeves:

a round of 50 stitches all around

*2 dc, 1 ch, skip 2 scs* around

complete first round with slipstitch

in top of first dc

slipstitch in next dc & the following chain

3 chain (= first dc)

dc & ch

work in all 1ch bridges:

2 dc, 1ch

after dcs/chs round number 9

I increased the stitches in round 10 -

in ONE of the 1ch bridges

I worked: 2 dc, 1ch, 2 dc, 1 ch

round 11-15 as usual

round 16: increase like in round 10

round 17-25 as usual 

I ended with a row of shell stitches,

*7dc in a stitch

skip 2 stitches

stitch

skip 2 stitches*

You don't need button holes -

they are already there!

I've put on 5 buttons

but do as you please!

Yay, that's it!

(If it's not big enough for you at this point

get yourself the actual Rings Of Change pattern

for some more rows

OR

just improvise & play around with stitches

for some more rounds!)

Some more pics

(Thank you to my flatmate Fabi

for taking the photos!)

Sooo...

I will pack my stuff for the next weeks now

(& all the christmas presents!)

& I wish you wonderful

christmas days

with your family!

:-)

So much love:

Your friend Dada

♥♥♥