While the previous post listing stitch and row counts is a good first pass, the final counts need to allow for the fact that I’m trying to keep all the Mistake-Stitch Ribbing
The second bullet point refers to where
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.