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| 30g |
is what I had left after finishing this
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| Unblocked Hazelnut |
I'm calling this done although it still needs to be blocked. We have guests at the moment so the spare bed is in use for it's intended purpose and there really isn't anywhere else I can block something as large as a sweater. The risk of feline interference is just too high everywhere else. Since the guests are my sister from Scotland and my Wee Niece and one of my sister's friends with her daughter I'm not really all that worried about it. Besides it's summer so I probably won't wear it for a few weeks yet and it's not like I don't have other sweaters in the meantime.
Pattern: Improvised bottom-up seamless raglan as per EZ
Yarn: Knit Picks Palette in Hazelnut
Needle: 2.75mm
Gauge: 31 stitches and 37 rows = 10 cm
To make this I started with the sleeves and cast on enough stitches to make a nice snug sleeve, worked a couple inches of ribbing followed by increasing every third round until the sleeve was as wide as I wanted it to be, then worked it to the length I wanted. Only calculated the gauge after completing the sleeves. After that I just worked the body, joined the sleeves and worked a raglan shaped yoke. Simple.
OK, I admit I've done a number sweaters like this now so what seems simple to me might not be to everyone. If you need a place to get started with seamless sweaters I recommend knittingfool.com. There is a marvelous calculator on this site that will tell you exactly how many stitches you need. Plus, have a good sit-down with Elizabeth Zimmerman's Knitting Without Tears. She covers seamless sweaters really well. I switched things around and worked this sweater bottom-up but I have done several top-down sweaters and followed a bottom-up pattern several times before I felt comfortable improvising on my own.
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