Whoever came up with the phrase “I knit so I do not kill people” had it right. I’ve spent most of today on the sofa in my pyjamas with the Tomten Jacket, calming myself down with every row that I knit and feeling much better by the time I reached the hood. It makes sense, really. Murder is messy and I bet you can’t get decent yarn in prison.
Getting the colours to match up on the fronts after the divide for the armholes wasn’t hard, fortunately. As each strip is only 14 stitches, I used very little yarn for each section, so there was plenty of the green left over for the second part. For the back, which you can’t really see, I did wind on the yarn until I got to the next green section, though. Hoping the sleeves will start from a purple section to be a nice contrast to the green, but I can always help that along if it doesn’t work out… 
It’s such a simple but clever pattern. The fronts and back are joined together now and the hood will grow upwards. Then there’s just the sleeves, which are picked up and knitted down from the armholes. The reserved stitches are included at the end of each sleeve row so that there’s very little sewing up to do at the end, and it’s such a quick knit! It’s been said many times before, but Elizabeth Zimmerman was a genius. 
This is looking gorgeous! I’ve been looking at other things knitted with this yarn on Ravelry, and am very tempted to buy some!
How are you finding this yarn to use. I have a ball of it in a purple-grey-black mix and found it to be quite rough and scratchy to work with. What do you think?
Love the colours in the rainbow version.
ohhh it’s lovely. It’s so fast. Sounds like you got the downtime you needed. Knitting has saved me many, many times.