04-29-2019

Found this pattern while looking for a sweater using the gauge from my swatch. I really want to use up this Sockotta yarn that’s been in stash for about a decade.

06-03-2019

The pattern wasn’t clear (to me) about whether the raglan shaping should continue after the cast on for the front and back. I didn’t do it and realized after getting to the center back and bind off of front that I should have. Oh well, I thought. I’ll just make the other side match. I thought it would work. But it doesn’t match. Too many rows on one side of the back. Weird. I don’t understand why, but I’m pretty sure it’s related to my prior mistake. Anyway, this is the opportunity to rip it back to where the first sleeve ended and get it right. Lots of ripping back of yarn held double. What a pain, but it’s the right thing to do.

06-17-2019

Found my mistake and had to rip back to the first set of faux raglan increases. Ugh! But, that’s done and I’ve caught up and surpassed where I was when I had to rip out. (My mistake was not counting pairs of rows--but counting rows. “repeat these two rows…” means I should have had 44 rows, but I only had 22 on one side making it asymmetrical!)

Just a about 40 rows to go on the second sleeve and then I do the collar and front band. I think I’ll have enough yarn.

06-19-2019

Instead of binding off the sleeve, I put it on waste yarn in case I wanted to extend them a little. Then I started the collar. I didn’t seam up the sides and sleeves yet even though the pattern called for doing that.

So the collar is almost done now. I’d like to try it on and see the fit with the collar--that would be the advantage to having seamed it up. I think I will put the collar on waste yarn, wash and block, and then seam the sides. I’m going to have to think about how since it isn’t a mattress stitch situation (knit sideways). If the sideseam stitches were live it would be a kitchener situation, so I have an idea of what I would do, but will need to block first.

07-16-2019

Finished for awhile, but no picture. The seaming went well. I used mattress stitch on the sleeves and duplicate stitch on the sides. I did the duplicate stitch a little too tightly at first and decided to re-do it so that the seam stitches would look like a knit stitch. It turned out pretty good.

The fit is pretty good, but the sleeves are a little tighter than I would like. I haven’t washed and blocked it yet since it is a wash and dry yarn, but I think I might block it to make it a little bigger through the arms.