Cairo (handspun)
Finished
March 29, 2018
April 2, 2018

Cairo (handspun)

Project info
Longboat Tee by Kerri Lee
Knitting
SweaterPullover
TopsTee
Me
Small
Needles & yarn
US 6 - 4.0 mm
10 stitches and 15 rows = 2 inches
in Stocking stitch
Inglenook Cairo
1 skein = 608.0 yards (556.0 meters), 127 grams
Cairo
Notes

Mods:
Added short row shaping to raise back neck.
Substituted M1L and M1R for KFB increases at raglans.

I’m not at all impressed by the pattern. It doesn’t give a useful gauge - it says 6spi - is that both row count and stitch count? Nor does it provide a useful schematic - the key piece of information is missing; with no apparent row count gauge, a schematic that doesn’t give a yoke depth measurement and no indication in the pattern of how deep the yoke should be before dividing for the body, it would be very, very easy to get this wrong.

In my case I found that by the time I had reached the suggested 11” width for sleeves (and that suggestion is only given for size Small - if you’re a medium or large you get no suggestions at all) the armscye was absolutely not deep enough. Fortunately I’ve made enough raglan sleeved top down garments to realise that and put in more length at the yoke before dividing the sleeves from the body.

Further, the pattern says: “If you
prefer waist shaping, be sure to use the same number of increases as you approach the hip. This helps
give the bottom hem a little drape.“
It provides no instruction about how or where or how often to do waist shaping. Again, I know how to do that already, but if one didn’t, this would be incredibly frustrating. If I’d spent $6 to buy this pattern and weren’t already a confident knitter I would be pretty unhappy.

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Finished
March 29, 2018
April 2, 2018
 
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  • Project created: March 29, 2018
  • Finished: April 4, 2018
  • Updated: April 16, 2019
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