sweater #9, 2016

Mods (to fit me, as the 35” size is too roomy): cast on 4sts underarm (2 each side of marker), rather than 10sts, so there are 96sts for the front/back, 192sts total. Knitting the body longer: 20cm before shaping (rather than 17cm). ETA: ha, mistake in some of the length measurements… this means that I didn’t need to make the upper body longer, but there’s no way I’m ripping back. I’ve knitted 3 sets of increases for the lower body (the third without the subsequent 7 rounds) and it’s plenty long enough for me.

Also I cast on with CC1, then immediately switched to MC. For the cuffs and bottom rib, I used CC1 only for cast off row. I ran out of MC yarn, so the sleeves aren’t quite as long as the pattern states, but they’re fine; every scrap of MC has been used!

FO: after blocking, I have a gauge of 19sts to 10cm (should be 22sts), so my gauge has gone awry at some point and the fabric is a little bit too open, especially for stranded work; eg the measurement underarm to underarm is 20”. I do think that I should have used a 3.75mm, or even 3.5mm, and it would have turned out absolutely perfectly. Slaps wrists. It’s still really lovely, though a bit more roomy than I would have wanted it.

NB: yarn yardages given above are rough estimates.