All that’s left now is using my swatch gauges and body measurements to determine my stitch and row counts. My washed swatch worked flat on 3.00 mm needles had 24.5 stitches and 32 rows per 4 inches.
The armhole edging will be 7 sts wide, which was right at 1 inch in my washed edging swatch, and the front bands will be 11 sts wide, for 1.5 in. The corresponding row heights for the horizontal underarm edging will be 10 rows and for the back neck 12 rows.
Now that I knew how wide my edgings would be, I converted my garment measurements into stitch and row counts using the postwashed gauges of my third two-stranded swatch, which had been worked on 3.00 mm needles.
Since I have limited yarn, I eliminated sleeves from this third sweater adventure when my swatching showed me how much yarn I’d need to make a given amount of fabric. And since this vest, unlike the Hillhead Slipover I recently completed, will open in the front, I need to decide on a stitch pattern to use for the front bands as well as around the armholes and on the bottom edge.
The yoke was a bit ruffly off the needles. The overall fit was also a bit tight before washing, which was to be expected—and per the design process—based on how the swatch (and the first sweater, the CotLin U-Neck) reacted to the first two wash cycles.
I finished colorway 1 with 20.76 g left, so there will be plenty to work the neck ribbing.
Colorway 2, Tide, started with 98.83 g. As I was winding, I noticed more particularly that it’s dyed in alternating blocks of white and dark blue, rather than being spotted like colorway 1 was. That means I’m likely to get the same effect as at the bottom of the CotLin U-Neck, with the zigzagging stripes. Argh! Stymie #1.