I worked down to the bottom of the V-neck, and at the end of row 91, I pulled the beginning of the row around to start working in the round. I also switched from the 3.00 mm to the 3.25 mm needle as I started ITR on what was now round (not row) 92, because my ITR gauge is slightly tighter than my flat gauge.
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Sweater Adventure #4: Working the Top of the Yoke
Since the top of this sweater has some peculiar steps, I thought it might be useful to show pictures of the progress.
I first made the two neck extensions, adding an extra stitch along the outer edge of each (meaning the edge that will not be the free edge along the neckline) to give me a place to knit or purl up the sleeve stitches without losing my desired 11-stitch finished width of the front-neck edgings.
Sweater Adventure #3: Designing, Part 2
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.
Working: Splitting the Sleeves from the Body
Round 87 is the biggest moment of the entire project, where I split the sleeve and body stitches and do the underarm cast-ons.
I had decided to duplicate my techniques from bottom-up seamless sweaters as much as possible in this top-down project, and when working bottom-up, I leave the underarm stitches of body and sleeves live for later grafting (weaving, Kitchener stitch), which completes the seamlessness of the FO. On this particular garment, worked with zero ease and in a non-resilient yarn, having seamless underarms should help me put it on and take it off in addition to being much more comfortable in the actual wearing.
Shaping: Finishing the Front Neck
What is the one piece of advice we all hear and even give—yet ourselves ignore—as we knit?
Check your gauge before you begin, and check it as you work, changing needle size as necessary.
Yeah. I only did the swatching part. I forgot to check as I went. My initial stitch gauge was good, but about an inch and a half in, it tightened up considerably. When I put all the stitches on ribbon to do a test fit, it seemed awfully narrow and short. Now, the narrowness will relax out a bit with the first laundering, and as for the shortness, well, I swatched and accounted for the number of rows/rounds I’d need to get from the back neck to the underarm. I decided I was just going to trust the numbers, almost in spite of the evidence that was before me in the mirror.