I have now finished the fourth colorway
and I did indeed stop the neckline Mistake-Stitch Rib pattern as soon as I worked the double dec that “joined” the outermost two columns of knit stitches. I am quite pleased with the final result.
OK, I lied in the previous post. 🙄
I decided, during a time of insomnia, that I did not, after all, like how the bottom of the V-neck was asymmetrical. The bottom of a V-neck is always going to be prominent, even in an ordinary ribbing (or other edging pattern), so it’s usually worthwhile to spend a bit of time to get it right. Since my two neck edgings were mirror-image, then the innermost knit columns on each should always be decreased away on the same round. I recharted this area in my drawing program, using a different symbol (what’s usually the slip-stitch symbol) for the right-side knit columns’ stitches, just to make the intended effect as clear as possible. (Note that the central stitch is shown as all knits due to my laziness for simplicity, but in the WIP, I’m working them as alternating knit and purl.)
I worked down to the bottom of the V-neck, and at the end of row 91, I pulled the beginning of the row around to start working in the round. I also switched from the 3.00 mm to the 3.25 mm needle as I started ITR on what was now round (not row) 92, because my ITR gauge is slightly tighter than my flat gauge.
I’m going to try an interesting technique to finish the bottom of the V-neck, which is made somewhat easier because I’m working top-down (I wouldn’t like to try this little experiment if I were working bottom-up, though it would work out fine if one could be quite sure of one’s row/round gauge).
On the first and third sweater adventures, I did the simplest thing possible to use the colorways I had: I worked each one as far as possible before switching to the next. But on the second sweater, the CotLin Circular Yoke, I used the lightest colorway in one tall section at the neck and the darkest in one tall section at the waist, then I split the middle three colorways into two groups of shorter bands and reversed their order below the waist. I think the overall visual effect worked out fairly well, and splitting the three middle colorways certainly allowed me to use nearly every bit of their yarn while making the bands all the same height.
So in my previous post, I said that the next picture would be once I got to the bottom of the V-neck. That statement was a bit premature, I think. I still have concerns about the shape of the fabric, and I still haven’t worked out how many stitches I’ll be able to make with each colorway. (Which is important only in that I need to know how many rounds I can expect to work on the body and the sleeves, since I can’t work all three pieces simultaneously, at least not without complications I’m not willing to endure.)