I did a bit of monogamous knitting the last couple of days. And so I actually have a FO to show you!
Well it’s done…but despite my best math and knitting know how it’s not quite right. Don’t get me wrong, the pattern is great! It’s written for small size only with directions/percentages given to help you “upsize” your garment. I should have been more meticulous…
Here it is anyway….
I completed this sweater in a little under a month. I used 3 skeins of Knit Picks Brava worsted in Wine knit up on size US 8 needles. I simple adore the color! (In math terms I used 657 yards or 300 grams of yarn)
I did my calculations and cast on 80 stitches and increased up to 149 total for the body section. I then knit 17 inches of stockinette up to the arm holes. Then I separated and knit another 7 1/2 inches of height for arms shoulders.
Now looking at the FO, here is what should have happened:
- Cast on 90 stitches (ish) and worked up to 159 stitches (ish)
- Knit 19 or 20 inches of stockinette before getting to the sleeves
- Knit 8 or 8 1/2 inches for the shoulders/arm holes
- Paid attention to the written directions and added increase at the corners of the knit border so it would curl.
This was supposed to have been a gift for a very lovely, elegantly tall, and slender friend. This sweater doesn’t have a snowballs chance in you know where of fitting the intended recipient in any flattering manner. So into my closet it will go after some additional aggressive blocking. I would like it to hit past my butt at least.
Instead my friend for her birthday shall get some local Kansas wine from grape vines that I helped to plant. That’s sort of like knitting her a sweater right? Sigh….
P.S. this is one of my last FO from my 2013 Stashbusting efforts! It’s #45 and I hope to have a post with my final year end stats soon!
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I think it looks lovely. I understand the “pattern interpretation” issues. I’ve done it a number of times.
It certainly is a lovely color! Enjoy it!
it’s very nice – and perhaps you have a short friend to gift it to? Seems like it is pretty economical, for a sweater, only three skeins! Now that you know how to adjust the pattern, try again. 🙂
I have a terrible time working a pattern more than once….kind of a “so many patterns, so little time problem” lol
There are, aren’t there? I switch back and forth between never knit the same thing twice to knitting the sam ething over and over, making changes, using different yarns, etc. I have a neck down sweater that I got back in the mid 70’s. It is a plain, basic pattern that I bet I have made fifteen or twenty times. Of course, I seldom make it as written anymore. 😉
I love that stage when I become comfortable with a skill or pattern and just “wing it” and it comes out beautifully!
me too. And when you have it in your head so well that you can see yarn and know it is right for the project, and how much to buy without having to do all that math. 🙂
It looks very nice on you. But every sympathy for the sizing issues.
I think that fits you pretty nicely! Shrugs like those are tough to fit, with the way they curve in front.
It’s good thing I’m not very curvy in the front, lol!
It looks great and it’s perfect on you 🙂
Thank you 🙂
It looks like it fits you just fine. Too bad you can’t use it for its intended purpose. I’m sure she’ll like the wine. I didn’t know Kansas was a state for wineries. Somehow I think wineries go with hills. Of course, I realize Kansas isn’t as flat as I think it is.
We actually have a wide expanse of Flint Rock soil content across the eastern portion of the state. Great for grapes and cattle grazing. But the “hill” height is debatable lol. Still pretty flat in my opinion
Are there certain kinds of grapes they tend to grow down there. For example I know Pinot noir grapes do well in Oregon due to climate. And totally different things do well in MN.
My winery friends will probably kill me…but I don’t remember what I helped them plant. I think one was Chambourcin, second maybe Vignoles,….and I can’t remember the third, lol
hmm…this gives me an idea…if I say I’m buying the yarn to make a gift, I don’t have to feel guilty about buying it. If I then “accidentally” make it fit me perfectly instead of the intended recipient…well…I can’t give them something that doesn’t fit, now can I? (not that you did that, of course…but it wouldn’t be a bad idea!)
I’ll never breathe a word 🙂
… nor shall I 😉
Awe that’s a shame… But at least it was only 3 balls of yarn and didn’t involve extensive seaming etc ❤
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