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Sweater Adventure #3: Three Colorways Done

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First three colorways complete

I’ve finished the first three colorways, which means I did my crochet cast-on at the underarm and have finished the V-neck increases.

I knew I was playing a bit of yarn chicken with colorway 2, trying to get to the same row number on the back and both fronts. As it turns out, I lost by about 40 stitches! I had started with the back, so that if I ran short, I would have to frog only the first front I worked on, rather than the entire width of the back. And don’t tell anyone, but I left the back worked through row 86 while the two fronts are only worked through row 85. That’ll just be our little secret!!! You won’t tell on me, will you??? Continue reading...

Sweater Adventure #3: Finished the First Colorway

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Fronts and back in first colorway

Holding the yarns doubled looks like a good option. Well, it does for the first colorway at least.

I have markers

  • right on the needles separating the edgings from the stockinette
  • counting every ten rows (the gold pins through the fabric)
  • showing the two most-recent rows with V-neck increases (the light-bulb markers through the fabric)

Since I was watching college football while working this first colorway, the on-needle markers reminded me, most of the time, at least, to switch from one stitch pattern to the other. Yes, I did still have to tink in a couple of places. 🙂 Continue reading...

Sweater Adventure #3: Working the Hawthorne Vest

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Since the full chart from the previous post is, shall we say, a bit unwieldy to work from, I stripped it down to its bare essentials before I cast on the back at the tops of the shoulders. This chart preserves all the key information while fitting on a single piece of paper with the stitch symbols at 12 points, which is important for my aging eyeballs. Continue reading...

Sweater Adventure #3: Final Stitch and Row Counts

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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

  • mirror-image where the edgings are vertical
  • aligned and continuous when a vertical edging joins a horizontal edging

The second bullet point refers to where Continue reading...

Sweater Adventure #3: Designing, Part 3

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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. Continue reading...