Outdoor knitting

I am still working on the SAME sweater! Not sure if I can finish this while it’s still cold enough to wear it? The weather is getting nice here, and perfect for out of doors knitting as you can see.

If I had more sweaters under my belt (or experience with sleeve caps and shaping), I might have caught the problem with the free sweater pattern I’m using? It seems that the top of the cap should be rounded and 2 inches smaller than it knitted up (unless I wanted a pretty puffy sleeve)!

Sighs

So, I had to rip both sleeves back to the ribbing (almost) and re-do both the shaping and sleeve cap dimensions. I tried using this article from knitty as a guideline, but it almost made things even more complicated.

Wish me luck, those sleeve caps still need to be seamed!

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Published:: April 9, 2007 / 5:10 pm

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mo 4.9.07 / 11pm

Good luck! I’m not that experienced with sweaters and shoulder shaping – so I’m of absolutely no help. Thanks for the pics.

katrin 4.10.07 / 7am

uh… and ripping is so discouraging!
i do feel with you – i’ve had my share of ripping, too…

laluttefinale 4.16.07 / 11am

Nice blog!

Jody 4.20.07 / 7am

Good luck on the sweater! One piece of advice I can offer is – get a sweater out of your closet that already fits you well and try to match the shaping used on that sweater. It sometimes helps a lot more than trying to follow what the pattern says!!

Yeah for outdoor knitting!

velmalikevelvet 4.27.07 / 6pm

love, Love, LOVE that photo! excellent perspective. and if it is any consolation, i started a hoodie last july, finished about 80% by september, and there it sits in my WIP pile, awaiting the button band, poor thing. got to finish it before this july… hang in!

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