This was not difficult. Sure I made a few mistakes, and fixed them, but it was quite a pleasure to knit this little darling up. The biggest mistake I made was when I knitted the sleeves two at a time on circular needles. Using this method, your sleeves (or socks--if you're doing socks) should be even. You have a separate ball of yarn for each sleeve. You simply cast on the stitches for one sleeve, then drop that yarn, pick up new ball, and cast on the same needle for the other sleeve. Then you simply knit back and forth in rows. In this case, you are knitting on the right side, and purling on the back side. Pretty straightforward. However, at some point, I went back and forth on one sleeve, forgetting about the other. When I bound off all stitches and blocked the sleeves on a towel, it was very clear that one was longer than the other. I stared at this in horror! How the heck did I do this??
But I know. It's called
distraction. And their names are Connor and Jack. ;-)
Setting in sleeves was also a new method for me. Basically, the body is knit, the sleeves are knit, and you simply have to sew the sleeves into the arm holes. This went a lot smoother than I imagined it would. I love the decreases used in this pattern, It really makes this sweater look special, in my opinion. Of course, the cables and lace design is what really makes it.
This sweater is for my newest great niece, Isabelle. She was born just a few weeks ago. I haven't met her yet, but I'm looking forward to mailing this to her tomorrow.
I love the book this pattern comes from,
Baby Knits by Lois Daykin, so I just ordered my own copy from
half.com. There are many patterns in this book I'm going to make. I really can't wait to start the next one.
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3 comments:
Really beautiful! I love it.
Love, Love, Love this! I think this looks so delicate and girly! Not to mention snuggle-able...
Did you have to knit a whole new sleeve? Were you able to rip out the culprit sleeve and just go back to the distraction row?
I envy your abilities Aunt Jenny :) You rock!
I did not start the whole sleeve over. First, I counted and re-counted both sleeves to determine I was exactly four rows off. They happened to be off in the "working even" section, so all I had to do was rip the shorter sleeve back to the even section. Sure, this meant taking out the decreases of the sleeve but they are so easy to knit, it's not a big deal at all. Then I just got the sleeve back on the needles, knit the missing four rows of "even," then did the decreasing to shape the sleeve for the armhole and voila!
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