09-26-2020

My gauge is different and I am adding a hood.

Mods:

Back:

• provisional cast on 73. Short row 1 markers are
• 14, pm, 45, pm, 14 4 st past last wrap each time.
• Back tag placed at 31,11,31
• Knit down 5 1/2 in
• Increase 10 times (total 95) (Not actually sure how I ended up with 95 instead of 93 but ya know whatever)

Left Front

• Pick up 18 st from provisional, add 1 at the armhole edge for total of 19
• purl 1 row as pattern states
• short row 1 - knit 3 and then wrap
• short rows 3, 5, 7 - knit 4 past last wrap, wrap
• row 4, 6, 8 purl all as pattern states
• knit 7 rows after short row 8
• Do neck increases as pattern states (24 after increases, 39 after cast-ons)
• knit 20 rows to reach 5.5 in from armhole as pattern states
• Do armhole increases as pattern states, but add 3 extra for a total of 10 increases (49 total)

Right Front

• Repeat the same as for left-front, except I moved all the increases to the WS row to match the other side
• Pick up 19 provisional st
• short row 1 - purl 3 and wrap
• short row 3, 5, 7 - purl 4 past last and wrap
• knit 7? 8? rows after row 8.
• I did M1Lp on Ws instead of right side so the rows would match up on either side.
• 20 st st rows
• armhole increases again on WS and up to 10 for 49 total stitches

I got myself in a weird spot by forcing it to match on all sides and had to break all the yarn and start a new ball.

Body
Purl all, adding 10 cast on for each armhole and join. * 213 total:

• 54,pm,105,pm,54
• knit all
• purl all
• decrease 8:
  • 1 at 35 st in from edge for bust dart on each side
  • 2 at armhole each side
  • 2 in the back on either side of the middle 31 stitches
• knit st st for 4 rows
• decrease back again (2 st dec.)
• at 6 row down from the last armhole decrease, decrease bust dart and armhole again
• 2 more rows st st and decrease back (193 total st: 50,pm,33,27,33,50)

12-28-2020

Almost finished! Everything’s knit and woven in; time to wash and block and then add the zipper

01-18-2021

All done. The zipper feels a little heavy for the sweater, but it was really easy to knit in. Hopefully it grows on me, because I was hoping to like this more. It is the culmination of a long while of visualizing after recycling the yarn from Value Village.