blueberry waffle (6)

jbeanmade
Sat, 11 Apr 2026 22:15:52 GMT

this is the best thing I’ve ever made. I need at least 2 more

this sweater was free to me

my first sweater to break 100k stitches!

3.25mm was the collar
3.5mm was everything else

this project is blueberry waffle sweater. waffle is obvious, it’s a waffle stitch pattern. blueberry is the yarn. I know it’s called Navy Heather but if I were on the color naming team for Kelbourne Woolens I 100% would’ve called it Blueberry Heather. The heather in the navy is purple! And it makes it look like a blueberry. Blueberry Waffle.

02-20-2026

i bought the yarn. i caked one skein. I did a swatch for Amy Christoffers “Waffle Pullover.” I liked it, I decided that was what I was making

02-24-2026

I was diving into Ravelry and found the designer Lone Kjeldsen. I fell in love with their style and favorited probably 12 of their patterns. One was the Waffle Blouse. I very much liked it but, since it’s worked in a sport weight, thought my Scout wouldn’t work

03-02-2026

just after midnight, I casted on the Waffle Pullover. I started after the collar and knit all the short rows. I was up way too late doing this and knit it in the dark.

I woke up and in getting ready to start my day, I looked at the Waffle Pullover. I liked it but I couldn’t get the Waffle Blouse out of my head. I raced to cake another skein before I left for the day.

On the bus ride to campus, I swatched the Waffle Blouse on 4mm needles. It was okay. I tried again on 3.5mm needles. LOVE. And suprisingly I met gauge! On the bus still, I frogged all of the progress of the Waffle Pullover just in time to get to campus.

I got off the bus, I went to class, and during class I cast on the Waffle Blouse and got through about half of the short rows.

Now I have finished the short rows and am working on the raglan increases. I’m no longer on gauge so I’m going to knit a M instead of an L (luckily they start the same so no frogging necessary). There’s 72 increase rounds in size M, I’ve done 32

This is the best thing I’ve worked on in so long. The way these yoke increases are done is so addicting and makes it basically impossible to put this down. Obsessed is an understatement; I don’t want to do anything else other than knit this, I’m having so much fun. I’ve also been wanting to knit a waffle garment for as long as I’ve been playing with yarn so I am just so damn excited that I’m finally doing it

03-03-2026

busy busy day. basically only got to knit after our internet went out at 10pm. Still, got to 56/72 yoke rows!

03-04-2026

finished first skein on row 57 of the yoke increases.
made fish stitch markers for this wip and they are so adorable that it has made this project impossibly even more enjoyable.

finished the yoke right at midnight, just in time to start playing Pokopia

03-11-2026

pokopia stole all my knitting time up until today
finished second skein almost 4” into the body

03-14-2026

i’m 80 rows into the body and it’s (generously) 16”

according to pattern, i have 47 rows left. at my gauge, that’s just under 5” and that’s too short.

i also want to make the ribbing shorter than written.

let’s say it’s 2” ribbing (now 18”). that gives me at least 5 more inches to knit in waffle on the body, or at least 50 rows.

thinking this likely will not be done by next Friday
also thinking about maybe giving it a mid-project block but idk we shall see

03-16-2026

finished third skein about 11” into the body, collar time

03-17-2026

finished the collar. blocking it because the length is confusing me so bad. i’m 20 rows over where the pattern said to stop the waffle pattern on the body and it’s 17.5” unstretched about about 19.5” stretched and idk what it’ll be blocked so let’s find out

03-19-2026

after blocking, the body became almost 23”, thank god i did that block. it’s dry now so working on it again today..
finished the body. the pattern didn’t specify a type of bind off for the body so here’s what i did: after the ribbing, i turned my work and did the few final purl rows from the inside so that i could just knit them instead. then, since i was already inside out, i just did a classic knit bind off, i think it looks pretty alright. it’s got a little bit of a ruffle to it right now but i think that should go away once i do the final block

03-20-2026

finished fourth skein almost 7” into the first sleeve

i’m doing a made up sleeve situation. i didn’t want no decreases but i also didn’t want as many decreases as written so this is what i’m doing: (knit= waffle stitch)
knit 32 rows
* decrease row, knit 11 rows *
repeat for 9 total decrease rows.
on the last knit row (the 140th sleeve row), decrease
decrease on the two purl rows
end with 81 stitches for the ribbing.
also add the purl rows after ribbing to match the body okay cool

03-21-2026

finished first sleeve at like 2pm
finished fifth skein about 5” from finishing the second sleeve at 9:30pm
finished second sleeve at about 1:30am
FINITO.