Koivua Light
Finished
September 17, 2022
October 5, 2022

Koivua Light

Project info
koivua light by Caitlin Hunter
Knitting
SweaterPullover
Needles & yarn
US 2 - 2.75 mm
US 3 - 3.25 mm
US 4 - 3.5 mm
US 5 - 3.75 mm
25 stitches = 4 inches
in Stranded
1,450 yards
Jill Draper Makes Stuff Mohonk
370 yards in stash
3 skeins = 1110.0 yards (1015.0 meters), 339 grams
Spincycle Yarns Dyed in the Wool
1260 yards in stash
1.7 skeins = 340.0 yards (310.9 meters)
Red-purple
Spincycle Yarns in Bellingham, Washington
Notes

Gauge with Spincycle DITW stranded is 26-28/4 on 4s.

Mohonk and spin cycle on 5s is 25/4 stranded
Mohonk is 24/4 stockinette on 4s.

Use 5s for stranded, 4s for stockinette, 3 for ribbing, 2 for I-cord neckline.

Modification:

At finish of yoke, 322 stitches. I don’t want tight sleeves. Need more underarm stitches, 18 or 19 to get to 8%.

On stockinette body of 240 st - 18 underarms is 204.
Sleeves of 80 - 18 underarms is 62 each, 124, total 328. Increase six stitches after short rows before separating.

102 front and back. To accommodate bust, make back 98 and front 106.

Start short rows at 52 stitches. Extend each set 5 st beyond last set (not before last set).

Sleeves — 80 reduced by two every 10 rows, down to 64 (not 72 as in pattern).

Neck — reduced 106 cast-on from provisional, to 100 on 3s with a purl row to stop the curling, then used a three-stitch i-cord on 2s (could have been four stitches). Head fits through! Provisionally cast on the first three stitches, and then kitchenered the end to the beginning.

I alternated skeins, was left with the equivalent of one skein of Mohonk and bits and pieces of three skeins of DITW. I cut out all the “pixielated” bits and also too-pale sections of the latter to make sure there was enough contrast.

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Finished
September 17, 2022
October 5, 2022
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by Jill Draper Makes Stuff
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  • Project created: September 11, 2022
  • Finished: October 12, 2022
  • Updated: October 15, 2022
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