Summer Sweater

[mandab123]

I finished this sweater tonight. It went super fast and only took up about 1 1/3 skeins of Lion Brand Wool-Ease. The Wool-Ease only cost $2.00 a skien so the whole project cost less than $4 to make! Since I live in good ol' Wisconsin I'm thinking about making some sleeves for it once winter rolls around.

Comments

[sweeny]

People always ask knitters to knit them socks, but i wouldn't think knitted socks would be very comfortable. Are they? Answer that bitch.

[mandab123]

Welcome back to the internet. I've been meaning to say that to you, but I've been much too lazy.

I have made knitted socks and they are indeed comfortable. But they make my feet sweat. But it's cool because the wool soaks it all up. the socks you buy at the store are actually knitted too. It's just they are knit by a machine at an ultrafine guage.

So there.

[seraphonica]

I would recommend making a new sweater to add sleeves to, rather than altering that one. a new sweater with a narrower collar, that is. otherwise you'll get the cold shoulder, quite literally.

[mandab123]

Oh, so very Pun-ny!

[hcn]

Damn...the pirate girl can knit like whoa!

[mandab123]

Not like whoa... like arrrrgh!

[agreywood]

I came over here from knitting since I figured that you might not check the post over there too often. What gauge did you use on that sweater? I am asking because I have similar measurements and every time I do a gauge * shoulder measurement, I get 178, not 150 and I was wondering if I need to do the ribbing very tight or if my gauge is just different from yours.

[mandab123]

Hmm, well I didn't check my guage or even make a swatch when I knit this and unfortunatly I don't have a measuring tape handy. I did the ribbing on size 5 needles, and it's 1X1 rib. Don't measure the exact circumfrence of your shoulders as ribbing will stretch quite a bit and it will "hug" your shoulders. (Think of it as the ribbing on a hat-it may look small but it will stretch to fit just about anyone's noggin). You don't want it to be loose otherwise you'll be pulling up your sweater all day. You can always try knitting 2 inches or so and then threading a spare piece of yarn through the stitches, remove the needles and try it on to see if it fits where you want it to.

Hope this helps!

[agreywood]

Thanks!

[mooflyfoof]

hi--i came across your journal through saucydwellings! just wanted to say that sweater is totally cute. is it a pattern of your own? if not, where can i get it? i'd love to make one for myself. it'd have to be quite a bit bigger though. ;)

[mandab123]

I used this pattern as a guide:
http://glampyreknits.tripod.com/glampyrephotos/id44.html

To make the neckline I cast on about 150 stitches, and then once I knit past my bust I decreased every third stitch to make a fitted fabric. You'll just have to experiment!

[mooflyfoof]

awesome, thanks! :)