Intarsia Garden
Finished
March 16, 2019
April 16, 2019

Intarsia Garden

Project info
Intarsia Sweater by Mari Tobita
Knitting
SweaterPullover
myself
Needles & yarn
US 6 - 4.0 mm
US 7 - 4.5 mm
17 stitches and 24 rows = 4 inches
in stockinet
1,097 yards = 10.04 skeins
Noro Silk Garden Solo
120 yards in stash
2.9 skeins = 317.1 yards (290.0 meters), 145 grams
A
Orange
Tangled Yarn
March 14, 2016
Noro Silk Garden Solo
26 yards in stash
3.14 skeins = 343.4 yards (314.0 meters), 157 grams
E
Red
Tangled Yarn
March 14, 2016
Noro Silk Garden Solo
none left in stash
4 skeins = 437.4 yards (400.0 meters), 200 grams
E
Red-purple
dibadu
December 28, 2016
Notes

General
Discovered an error in the pattern: row 59 is missing. Have commented on the pattern page.

Would very much have prefered if this pattern had been charted.

New to me technique for making nice-looking intarsia diagonals using increases and decreases.

A 15 Amber, B 8 Fuschia, C 7 Scarlet

Used 4mm needles for all broken rib.

Using sloped bindoff for neck shaping.

TCKAL cast-on post: #1362

Mods

  • 7 rows broken rib with smaller needles instead of garter
  • mirrored the intarsia on the front,
  • on back knitted 20 r more after r 126 before starting shoulder and neck shaping & ditto on the front (after r 118),
  • used German shortrows (double stitch) with 3-needle bindoff for shoulder shaping,
  • picked up fewer st for neckband, knit 5 r broken rib,
  • using sock yarn for the side seams,
  • sleeve picked up 2 st for every 3rd r = 64 st total, knitted 12 r, decreased every 9th r 11 times, knit 3 more r, changed to smaller needle and knit 6 r broken rib.

Timeline
2019-03-25: Finished back and started on front.
2019-03-31: Finished front.
2019-04-02: Seamed shoulders.
2019-04-03: Decided I wanted the body longer after all so unravelled the shoulder seams and frogged to r 126 on the back and r 118 on the front.
2019-04-04: Started over on the back.
2019-04-05: Finished the back again and started over on the front.
2019-04-06: Finished front.
2019-04-07: Finished shoulders and picked up for neckline.
2019-04-08: Finished neckline and started on side seams.
2019-04-09: Finished side seams and started on left sleeve.
2019-04-12: Finished left sleeve and started on right.
2018-04-15: Finished right sleeve and reknitted neckband with smaller needles.
2019-04-16: Didn’t like how floppy the bottom band felt so did a bit of sweater surgery and reknit the broken rib with smaller needles.

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About this yarn
by Noro
Aran
45% Mohair, 45% Silk, 10% Wool
109 yards / 50 grams

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  1. wabi sabi
  2. softish
  3. colourful
  • Originally queued: March 11, 2019
  • Project created: March 16, 2019
  • Finished: April 17, 2019
  • Updated: July 12, 2020
  • Progress updates: 24 updates