The brown cardigan is finished!
Well, almost.
When I first wrote about this sweater last March, I had completed the back and almost half of the front. I finished the entire front not long afterwards, and attached to two front pieces to the back using the three-needle bindoff (which worked beautifully. Then I knit the sleeves. "I'm in the home stretch now!" I thoght. And then I realized that the sleeves were too small. I was following the 18M size for this pattern, and somehow--either because my gauge was different in the sleeves than in the body (which is quite possible, as readers of the Yarn Harlot's Knitting Rules already know) or because there was some bizarre error in the pattern--I ended up with sleeves more suited for a six-month-old. Okay, I exaggerate. A nine-month-old, then. Let's just say that Sylvia's arms (which are losing more and more of their baby chub every day, but are still definitely in the "chubby" category) would've looked like stuffed sausages in those things.
I took the sweater to last month's meeting of my local knitting group, hoping that one of the knitting gurus there would be able to advise me on how to salvage the sleeves. No such luck. The general consensus was that I'd have to redo them. (This was accompanied by the suggestion that I turn the too-small sleeves into a funky baby hat. Hmmmm . . . intriguing idea . . . )
Fortunately, sleeves on baby sweaters go lickety-split--yes, even when they are knit on teeny-tiny needles, as these were. (The seed stitch edgings are on 2s, and the bulk of the knitting is done on 3s.) I finished the second sleeve early this week, put the whole thing together Monday evening (seaming = UGH! . . . . although I must admit that in this case my usual distaste for seaming was tempered somewhat by the fact that this Baby Cashmerino yarn is luscious to handle), and wove in the ends Tuesday evening. Today Sylvia and I went out to buy seven buttons for the front closure. I did try to take her opinion into consideration, but since her opinion consisted largely of trying to break the harness on her stroller so she could grab/break/stuff-in-her-mouth/throw the thousands of buttons arrayed before us, I made an executive decision and came home with these. With luck, they'll get attached to the sweater before the end of the weekend.
When I first wrote about this sweater last March, I had completed the back and almost half of the front. I finished the entire front not long afterwards, and attached to two front pieces to the back using the three-needle bindoff (which worked beautifully. Then I knit the sleeves. "I'm in the home stretch now!" I thoght. And then I realized that the sleeves were too small. I was following the 18M size for this pattern, and somehow--either because my gauge was different in the sleeves than in the body (which is quite possible, as readers of the Yarn Harlot's Knitting Rules already know) or because there was some bizarre error in the pattern--I ended up with sleeves more suited for a six-month-old. Okay, I exaggerate. A nine-month-old, then. Let's just say that Sylvia's arms (which are losing more and more of their baby chub every day, but are still definitely in the "chubby" category) would've looked like stuffed sausages in those things.I took the sweater to last month's meeting of my local knitting group, hoping that one of the knitting gurus there would be able to advise me on how to salvage the sleeves. No such luck. The general consensus was that I'd have to redo them. (This was accompanied by the suggestion that I turn the too-small sleeves into a funky baby hat. Hmmmm . . . intriguing idea . . . )
Fortunately, sleeves on baby sweaters go lickety-split--yes, even when they are knit on teeny-tiny needles, as these were. (The seed stitch edgings are on 2s, and the bulk of the knitting is done on 3s.) I finished the second sleeve early this week, put the whole thing together Monday evening (seaming = UGH! . . . . although I must admit that in this case my usual distaste for seaming was tempered somewhat by the fact that this Baby Cashmerino yarn is luscious to handle), and wove in the ends Tuesday evening. Today Sylvia and I went out to buy seven buttons for the front closure. I did try to take her opinion into consideration, but since her opinion consisted largely of trying to break the harness on her stroller so she could grab/break/stuff-in-her-mouth/throw the thousands of buttons arrayed before us, I made an executive decision and came home with these. With luck, they'll get attached to the sweater before the end of the weekend.
2 Comments:
Oooh aaaah. Nice Sweater. (From Beth who is with me and has no internet connection.)
Me? Yeah, I love it too. Beeeauutiful!!!!!
Nice! I'm working on a baby sweater and using Baby Cashmerino for the first time, too! I attribute my most-even tension ever to this yarn. Looking forward to seeing yours with the buttons, and on the baby!
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