I’m doing a trial run of the top half of the yoke in a spare colorway of my project yarn, just because there are so many things going on that I want to feel the freedom to experiment by using yarn I don’t care about. I don’t like frogging anymore than anybody else, and while I don’t think the first project colorway would be damaged by frogging and reworking, why take that chance when I have a colorway that won’t otherwise be used?
Category Archives: Sweater Adventures
Swatching: Testing the Top of Sweater 2
Since I’m going to do a waste provisional cast-on and start immediately with the stockinette main fabric of the sweater, I want to leave a long-enough tail so that when I remove the PCO to work the neck ribbing, I have sufficient yarn right there, already attached and long enough to do the entire final trim.
Designing: Avoiding Yarn Chicken in Sweater 2
Just as I did with the first sweater in this series, I’m going to make a multi-column table in my word processor and use my knitting font to show every stitch, including the cast-on and bound-off stitches, of the sweater.
Designing: Body Shaping and Sleeves for Sweater 2
The sleeves and body will be split on round 85. I need to figure out how each part will be worked.
Whichever of the sleeves or body I work first, I’ll do a provisional cast-on with waste yarn for the underarm stitches. Then when I want to do the other part, I’ll remove the PCO and capture those live sts on the needle along with that part’s held sts from the yoke. Note that because I’ll have one less stitch when I remove the PCO, I’ll do a yarnover right in the middle, to add the stitch on which I’ll do the same afterthought phony seams as on the U-Neck. {add link to that post}
Designing: Yoke Shaping for Sweater 2
Working EPS top-down means I have to do increase rather than decrease rounds for the yoke shaping. I will also finish all the shaping very quickly: by the time I’ve worked the upper half of the yoke depth. It’s really kind of crazy when you think about it, and it can be a little intimidating working an EPS bottom-up the first time or three. Nevertheless, her design works wonderfully. Now I just need to work it in the opposite direction.
Designing: Stitch and Row Counts for Sweater 2
Since I already have a sweater in the yarn, I can use its fit to figure out what changes I should make to improve this second sweater.
When I put the CotLin U-Neck on and examined myself carefully in the mirror, I decided to make the following changes after pinching off bits of the fabric in key places: