08-08-2021

This is to be a sweater for SVH and it will be my own design (!). He wants a simple sweater with a cable or some sort of panel front middle and on sleeves.

I’ve bought the book Vogue Knitting “The Ultimate Stitch Dictionary” for inspiration.

Swatched on needles 4 mm and 3,5 mm. Need to wash and block before deciding on needle size.

02-09-2021

Swatch after washing:

• ndl 3.5 mm: 21 sts x 16 rows = 10 cm x 5 cm
• ndl 4.0 mm: 21 sts x 19 rows = 10 cm x 5 cm

Both in stockinette.

The 4mm ndl gives the best result.
Next step is to swatch the pattern…

04-09-2021

How many sts to CO:
According to swatch 21 sts = 10cm.
1cm = 2.1 st.
128 cm(desired width) x 2.1 = 268.8 sts.
As 268.8 sts is not a workable number of sts for the bottom pattern (2k/2p), I am starting with 272 sts (=129.5 cm).

01-11-2021

Armholes will be 54 cm total, 27 cm for back and 27 cm front
Neck circ. is 48 cm total

30-11-2021

Sweater finished, meaning all knitting done! Tomorrow I’ll weave in the tails and after that: blocking… The end is nigh!

03-12-2021

All done, sweater is now drying! SVH is heppy with it :-)