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.
Category Archives: Sweater Adventures
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
Evaluation: Sweater Adventure #2, CotLin Circular Yoke
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.
Sweater Adventure 2: Yarn Has Stymied Me—Again
I finished colorway 1 with 20.76 g left, so there will be plenty to work the neck ribbing.
Colorway 2, Tide, started with 98.83 g. As I was winding, I noticed more particularly that it’s dyed in alternating blocks of white and dark blue, rather than being spotted like colorway 1 was. That means I’m likely to get the same effect as at the bottom of the CotLin U-Neck, with the zigzagging stripes. Argh! Stymie #1.
Working: Yoke Progress for Sweater 2
After sleeping on it for several days, I decided to change a few minor things from my initial planning for the yoke of this second sweater adventure.
First, I needed to do an actual correction to my provisional CO stitch count. Since I’m working in the round, I won’t, after all, lose a stitch when I remove the PCO to work the neck ribbing in the opposite direction, so I did my PCO with only 140 sts, not the 141 I had originally planned.