Hi All!
I've been in a bit of a knitting funk lately. The weather is getting to nice to be knitting wool sweaters and I needed a break from socks. So, I stopped in at The Loop on my way home from work on Tuesday to look for some inspiration. And this is what I found:
It's 8 skeins of Cascade Sierra Quattro Colour 80. It's 80% Pima Cotton and 20 % Wool. I love it! It's much cooler than working with wool. I started my first ever top-down raglan*. I looked over a few patterns online, but due to sizing issues with other sweater patterns (*cough* blaze *cough*), I decided to just measure my best fitting raglan sweater and write a pattern up based on that. Here it is so far:
I'm making a v-neck so it will be a while before I join the two sides. At that point I'm going to have to decide if I want to make a pullover or a cardigan. I also haven't decided the sleeve length yet either. I'm thinking full length if I go with a cardigan and short or 3/4 length if I go with a pullover. We'll see. I have a ways to go before I need to decide and I'm open to suggestions. I looked over a bunch of types of increases and decided to go with the KLL and KRL found here . Here's a closeup of the raglan increases:
And, just for fun, here's a pic of Felix and his freakishly long tongue:
*I've made raglan sweaters bottom-up before, but thought I'd try going the other way.
posted by Jess @ 10:13 p.m.
7 Comments:
I love Felix! I just got back from the vet office and they had 14 kittens! The cuteness was unbearable!
Holy crap you blogged!!
I like cardigans myself, but that's just where my comfort is.
Cutie pie kitty!
Yay - end of the knit-funk! I love the new sweater - what a great colour for summer.
Felix looks like he's watching tv over your shoulder. Men - they've got such short attention spans.
That's a very, very pretty increase. I always just did a yarn over, and then knit it through the back on the next row. Next top-down I do I'll try that increase.
Good grief, that is a cute tongue. Not to mention his eyes!
Top down is fun. Well, until you hit the never ending stockinette in the round. That's where I am with Glee (Zephyr Knits) right now.
What a handsome boy. That pic needs to be made into a lolcat I think.
That yarn so much nicer knit up than in the skein. Just a warning about top down raglans. Watch the arm sizing. A lot of people (me included) find that you can end up with sleeves that are too damn small.
That is a nice looking increase method, I walmost wish I had read this before starting the sweater from fitted knits this morning, oh well, there's always next time.
And yay for silly cat pictures!
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