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. Continue reading...

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. Continue reading...

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. Continue reading...