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arguchiktoday i am wearing a sweater that i made with my own two needles. it is cozy and it makes me happy. i had to change my plan for the yoke, though, because the body stitches didn't work out evenly...that pesky need, again, for there to be an even multiple of 4 stitches in order for the body and sleeves to join properly. this is the same problem that made me rip out and re-knit the first sleeve i'd started. i wasn't about to rip out and re-knit the entire body, though. i just changed things on the fly. instead of being the same 3 x 1 beaded rib as the body, the yoke consists of stockinette stitch punctuated with a pearled row (so it's like a raised horizontal rib) every 4th row. it looks really good, which surprises me--i didn't think i would like it all that much. my roommate said it looks grecian. :-) the finished sweater fits perfectly--exactly how i wanted it to--except for one small detail: for the first 3 raglan decreases, i used a 3-stitch wide pattern, which was clearly too bulky. i switched to 2-stitch wide decreases, which looks much better--but i made the (wrong) decision not to un-knit the previous rows and re-do the decreases i had already done. as a result, the sweater is a little poochy as it comes up from my armpits. i was thinking about trying to pull it in with some stitching, but i think i just have to live with it as-is.
anyway, here are some pics (click to make bigger so you can see detail):
here you can see the three pieces, ready to be joined. on the right are the bamboo double-pointed needles that i used to knit the sleeves. (i put the sleeve on the left onto a cable needle just to hold it, to free up the dp needles for the other sleeve.)
here it is after the first joining round. the little brightly-colored plastic thingies are stitch markers, to let me know where to make the raglan decreases. the yellow one marks where the last stitch circles back to the first stitch.
here it is all done! you can't see the poochy spots when it's lying flat, but they're right where the yoke starts to angle toward the neck, along the "seam" line. (it's not really a seam--this is a seamless sweater.) if you look closely, you can see that the armpits are also seamless--in order to shape the armpits on a seamless sweater, you slip a certain number of stitches on both the body and the sleeves to scrap yarn while you knit the yoke, and after you cast off at the neckline you join the armpit stitches by grafting them using what's called a kitchener stitch. this method of grafting is named for earl horatio herbert kitchener, the guy who invented it. he was in charge of updating british military uniforms just before WWI, and didn't like how the toe seams of socks caused pressure on a soldier's toes. it's a blister hazard, and blisters can lead to infection and other nasty things under combat conditions, when soldiers' feet stew in their boots for days on end. this is bad for the individual soldier, obviously, but it's also bad for the war effort because it can put a soldier out of commission (which was probably his main concern). so...he invented a way to make the toes of socks seamless, by grafting the two sets of stitches together in this fashion. it works great--the graft is completely invisible.
that's it. i'm ready for my next project now--but i'm using it as a lure/reward for myself. i am not allowed to start my next project until i achieve the writing goal i have set for myself for this week, which should be tomorrow. i have the yarn already...it's a super-soft variegated merino. i knit up a guage swatch, and...wow! this yarn is too good for me. :-) i'm going to turn it into a very simple turtleneck.
wish me luck with the writing...
anyway, here are some pics (click to make bigger so you can see detail):
here you can see the three pieces, ready to be joined. on the right are the bamboo double-pointed needles that i used to knit the sleeves. (i put the sleeve on the left onto a cable needle just to hold it, to free up the dp needles for the other sleeve.)
here it is after the first joining round. the little brightly-colored plastic thingies are stitch markers, to let me know where to make the raglan decreases. the yellow one marks where the last stitch circles back to the first stitch.
here it is all done! you can't see the poochy spots when it's lying flat, but they're right where the yoke starts to angle toward the neck, along the "seam" line. (it's not really a seam--this is a seamless sweater.) if you look closely, you can see that the armpits are also seamless--in order to shape the armpits on a seamless sweater, you slip a certain number of stitches on both the body and the sleeves to scrap yarn while you knit the yoke, and after you cast off at the neckline you join the armpit stitches by grafting them using what's called a kitchener stitch. this method of grafting is named for earl horatio herbert kitchener, the guy who invented it. he was in charge of updating british military uniforms just before WWI, and didn't like how the toe seams of socks caused pressure on a soldier's toes. it's a blister hazard, and blisters can lead to infection and other nasty things under combat conditions, when soldiers' feet stew in their boots for days on end. this is bad for the individual soldier, obviously, but it's also bad for the war effort because it can put a soldier out of commission (which was probably his main concern). so...he invented a way to make the toes of socks seamless, by grafting the two sets of stitches together in this fashion. it works great--the graft is completely invisible.
that's it. i'm ready for my next project now--but i'm using it as a lure/reward for myself. i am not allowed to start my next project until i achieve the writing goal i have set for myself for this week, which should be tomorrow. i have the yarn already...it's a super-soft variegated merino. i knit up a guage swatch, and...wow! this yarn is too good for me. :-) i'm going to turn it into a very simple turtleneck.
wish me luck with the writing...
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Date: 2007-11-21 03:16 am (UTC)I bet it is even sexier with you in it.
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