Monthly Archives: July 2019

Working: Casting On

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FINALLY!!!

Now that I know I have plenty of yarn, even to do some A-line shaping on the body, and that the places where I’ll change colorways are set, I am ready to cast on.

As soon as I learned the crochet CO, it became my go-to for all projects, even those that start with ribbing. Apparently I Goldilocks my crochet CO (not too loose, not too tight, but just right), because it is as nearly stretchy as the fabric that springs from it. Well, stretchy enough, even when the initial fabric is ribbing. Continue reading...

Designing: Avoiding Yarn Chicken

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Since my CotLin value pack has two sets of colorways that constitute two fades, I need to figure out when to change to the next colorway. I have no stomach for yarn chicken, so I’ll go to extremes to figure out how many stitches I can get from each skein, and I’ll allow a cushion in case my numbers are off. As a first step, I need to figure out how much fabric, in terms of square inches, my sweater will be. Continue reading...

Designing: Stitch and Row Counts

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I’m using the “Timeless Adult Raglan Cardigan” project from Maggie Righetti’s Sweater Design in Plain English to determine the raglan shaping. Mathematically, doing the raglan shaping every other row doesn’t always work nicely, so she came up with a system where you do EOR shaping just above the underarm and at the last bit approaching the neck. But the area in between has the shaping occur every fourth row. I’m not going into all the details here, but I will summarize the results. Continue reading...