Make a wish
Finished
September 8, 2013
August 23, 2014

Make a wish

Project info
Make a Wish by Joji Locatelli
Knitting
SweaterCardigan
34/36?
Needles & yarn
US 6 - 4.0 mm
Garrett hand painted laceweight yarn
165 yards in stash
1.75 skeins = 1434.8 yards (1312.0 meters), 175 grams
Garrett
Blue
Wool n Wire
July 21, 2013
Notes

23 Aug 2014
Very happy with how this turned out - certainly would consider making another one one day.
Interesting construction and fairly time consuming due to the large surface area - really interesting and quite elegant shape compared to many knitted garments.
I have very narrow shoulders so I feel the neckline doesn’t quite sit right most of the time - but looking at the original pattern pics and other projects the shoulder seams do actually sit down across the arms rather than singlet-style - so mine has probably turned out as it was meant to.
Quite happy with the yarn in the end too - was worried it would look a little too crazy but ended up quite a nice effect and went a long way.

30 June 2014
Blocked. Two weeks away from the date I bought the yarn last year. Need to take some better photos.

14 April 2014
Finished body - very interesting construction. Starting sleeves.

21 March 2014
Finished flounce. Less repeats than the pattern to reach the required inches. Almost one full skein used up in flounce.

21 December 2013
Up to the 6th repeat of the flounce.

Continuing to have difficulties picking and knitting the wrapped sts each time I return to row 1 of the chart. The one that is on the border between the lace and plain sections doesn’t appear to be able to be picked up and knit without changing the stitch count. Not sure what I’m doing wrong but will continue onwards and hope it’s ok.

26 October 2013
Did provisional cast on (great tutorial - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3J-sUx_whE) very unsure of sizing, amount of yarn and guage because haven’t checked carefully, but will knit some as a test and see how it goes.

September 2013
Swatching, trying to make non-stripey.
44 sts gives a good colour

Was considering inventing own patten but ‘Make a Wish’ could be pretty much what I was after.

Gauge of that pattern is 20 stitches and 30 rows = 4 inches in stockinette (5 sts to 1 in)

my guage with this yarn and 4mm is 6 sts to 1 in.

Left over yarn
7.3 m per gram
25 grams remain

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August 23, 2014
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  • Project created: September 17, 2013
  • Finished: August 23, 2014
  • Updated: June 11, 2015
  • Progress updates: 10 updates