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.
Tag Archives: Swatching
Sweater Adventure #3: Designing the Hawthorne Vest, Part 1
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.
Sweater Adventure #3: The First Hawthorne Garment
Working: Testing the Top of Sweater 2
I’m doing a trial run of the top half of the yoke in a spare colorway of my project yarn, just because there are so many things going on that I want to feel the freedom to experiment by using yarn I don’t care about. I don’t like frogging anymore than anybody else, and while I don’t think the first project colorway would be damaged by frogging and reworking, why take that chance when I have a colorway that won’t otherwise be used?
Swatching: Testing the Top of Sweater 2
Since I’m going to do a waste provisional cast-on and start immediately with the stockinette main fabric of the sweater, I want to leave a long-enough tail so that when I remove the PCO to work the neck ribbing, I have sufficient yarn right there, already attached and long enough to do the entire final trim.
Designing: Planning Short Rows for Sweater 2
In Newsletter #1 in EZ’s The Opinionated Knitter, she has instructions to work the short rows starting with the entire back half of the neckline, 48 of 96 total stitches. At the end of each row, she works 2 more stitches past the last turning point, working a total of 6 short rows before finishing the neck ribbing in the round. Since that sweater is done in fingering, there’s not much back neck depth added, probably only three-quarters of an inch or so, since the designed stitch gauge is 6 spi (there’s no row gauge given).