Sticka med Kaffe Long Leaf Coat

Buffy, what a surprise.  Ravetar marrieb from the Netherlands — check out her Kaffe "Jack's Back" waistcoat — sent me the pattern for the Long Leaf Coat from the Swedish Book Sticka med Kaffe, and just like your Romeo and Juliet Coat, this particular Long Leaf Coat is knitted holding three differently colored strands — two of 4-ply and one of dk weight.

It's also notable for the pleated shoulders, which no double give this massive coat a better fit. The colors change from very rich and dark on the bottom to lighter in tone at the top, which I find very dramatic and interesting. It takes advantage of those Rowan Scottish Tweed yarns, now discontinued, that I am using, too, in my older Rowan version of the pattern.

I have only studied the color combinations in the pictures, and not yet on the pattern charts, but I do like the less dramatic, simpler overall combinations of the older pattern, even though my coat will have many of the actual colors of this Sticka med Kaffe Long Leaf Coat. The older Rowan coat in the free download just looks more like Autumn in Vermont.

I guess I shouldn't complain about using the extra metal thread — what's four strands from time to time when one is just a wisp?