Frothy Cozy

morgybear
Sun, 22 Jan 2012 22:30:19 GMT

The 5th picture here is the whole sweater folded in half top-to-bottom and sewn down the side seams. When you unfold it like a clamshell, it suddenly becomes a sweater.

1/2/12
Put this down in May and didn’t get to pick it up again till December ‘11. It does knit quickly, though. Halfway done.

1/12/12
10 rows left on the #19 needles, then bind off, then sew sides together. If the sleeves are too short, I’ll pick up stitches and add on in some other pattern, maybe 90-degree to the existing ribbing. And this is with very little time to knit over the past 10 days. This does go fast!

1/14/12
Finished last night, still need to weave in some ends. Sewed together so quickly, just had to be careful lining up the ends and sewing evenly together. The sleeves look short on the sweater itself, but the sweater fits so loosely that the sleeves are perfect. It truly is Cozy…

BUT — the cast-on and bind-off are somehow very tight, even though I used the #35 needles. I’m thinking I’ll thread a complementary color yarn through the edge stitches, then cut something & ease the edges so that the collar will lie flat. Right now, it rolls under and looks odd.

1/16/12
I discovered a different bind-off method that’s stretchier — k2tbl, then put the resulting loop back on the left needle, and repeat. This allowed the collar to lie much flatter, but I’ve run out of the Patons Divine yarn, so I substituted an off-white that I had in-stash. I don’t like how it looks, and it doesn’t lay quite flat enough, so I’m going to take out the bind-off end one more time and re-do it, looser, with just the brown Silky Wool yarn. I think this will look finished and lay flat.

1/22/12
Finished the third iteration of the bind-off last night. It lays flat and looks finished, as expected. Finally! The sleeves feel slightly unfinished; I might someday add some detail to them, maybe pick up stitches and add ribbing. Dunno. At least they’re long enough!