Category: sweaters

  • anticlimactic

    As of last night (since I just woke up this morning…at noon, whoops) the Rhinebeck sweater (which probably needs a name) had bottom ribbing (and ribbing on the bottom of one sleeve),

    woven underarms,

    and a completed yoke!

    I’d written three charts, but didn’t use the last one – the yoke looked like it was getting a bit long. I just winged the colourwork in there – mostly just stripes anyway. I put in the short rows in blue, which you might be able to see in the photograph, and then finished up with a few rounds of ribbing. The yoke is the right length and it is FABULOUS.

    The only things left to do are the ribbing on the second sleeve (seriously about 8 rounds), weaving in ends (most of which are already done), and a good wet block. I’m going to block tonight so that it’ll be dry and ready to go on Friday, and then it’ll make its debut on Saturday!

    No sudden dashes towards the finish line, car finishing, or anything. Almost anticlimactic really.

    (But I really need to work on schoolwork the rest of the week before we go. Dude, I’m so excited!)

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  • a forgotten FO

    I finished this sweater sometime last winter; I think I didn’t blog about it because I was thinking of submitting it somewhere. Oh well, time has come and gone, and I pulled it out the other day to wear and snapped some photos.

    Button Raglan
    Pattern: my own
    Yarn: Cascade Pastaza, 50% wool, 50% llama. I think it was…five skeins of the main colour?
    Needles: 5 mm

    It’s a bottom up raglan which grew kind of a lot when I washed it – so it’s a bit big, but super warm. That’s all I really wanted out of it!

    Laying flat photo – after my photo editing software did something weird to it:

    I got the buttons off a leather vest I thrifted for $2 (I used some of the leather to make soles for felted slippers last Christmas, too).

    Now. The handspun Rhinebeck sweater is coming along swimmingly!

    I’ve finished the second sleeve, obviously, and attached everything together for the yoke. Took me awhile to figure out what I was going to do for the colourwork, but I think I have my plan now. Unfortunately…my first schmancy fair isle pattern doesn’t show up very well.

    It’s a star and diamond motif. Ah, well, it looks cool, even if you can’t see the pattern exactly. I’ve just done the first decrease round and am a bit stalled because the next colour yarn is still drying. I’m taking the opportunity to do the bottom ribbing on the body – I don’t have much of the main colour yarn left, so I think I’m going to tip the edging in the dark brown. I almost forgot how fun stranded colourwork is!

    Interweave’s winter preview is up, and it looks pretty good. Bonus big photos, even!

    Oh, and lettuce knit-ers? You know that course I’ve been kvetching about, the evolution one that’s all stats? I’ve dropped it. Yayy!! It means I’ll have to do five courses next term, but they’ll be better ones.

  • simple is enough

    I’ve completed the body of the Rhinebeck handspun sweater up to the underarm.

    Such a plain, oatmeal-coloured fabric is terribly satisfying.

    I’m almost almost done a sleeve to the underarm (really just need like 3 more rounds, then it’s onto a holder so I can knit the second one at SnB tomorrow) so it’s going pretty quickly. I still need to make my charts for the yoke though.

    Proof that it happens to everyone –

    Oopsie.