These four sweater adventures used yarn from three value packs of two different lines of Knit Picks yarn. The first two sweaters came from the CotLin Reflections VP, containing 12 colorways. The CotLin U-Neck and the CotLin Circular Yoke both used 5 unique colorways, and I used the remaining 2 colorways for swatching. The third sweater, the Hawthorne Vest, used the Hawthorne Bramble VP, with 5 colorways. I’m now down to the final VP, the Hawthorne Fog Bank VP, with 7 colorways.
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Sweater Adventure #3: Determining the Color Changes
Once I knew my stitch and row counts, I could assign different bands of the vest to different colorway combinations, which would allow me to figure out how often I needed to change colorways so that I could use up as much of the yarn as possible.
Sweater Adventure #3: Final Stitch and Row Counts
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
Sweater Adventure #3: Designing, Part 3
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.
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.
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.