A short lapse since my last post- this is due to my intense desire to post a finished object. I thought this would have been several days ago with my orange Something Red. I had one sleeve to go and one row left on the button band. I quickly finished off the button band over lunch at work when, alas, roadblock. In picking up the stitches for the button band around the front edge of the sweater, I picked up around 170 rather than the required 184. I'm not exactly sure why, but as I did that I thought to myself, oh that won't matter. Wrong! When I finished the button band it pulled up incredibly at the bottom and looked very strange (I don't have a photo because as soon as I realized this problem I ripped that band right out). Ugh.
I finished the second sleeve and went back to that drat buttonband. I decided to pick up more than the required 184 stitches (got this idea from Stitchywitch.) A few people have written about how even with the 184, the band still pulls up a bit. Plus, I think a number divisible by 2, not 4, would be better, as then you'd wind up with two knit stitches at either end, rather than 2 knits on one side and 2 purls on the other. I wasn't really happy with my buttonhole either, so maybe this is a good thing. It just deleyed my "wearing gratification" slightly.So, with further ado, here is the finished Something Red (in orange).
Pattern: Something Red by Wendy Bernard
Needles: Size 7
Started: April 16, 2008
Finished: May 23, 2008
Modifications: Picked up stitches for the buttonband with a ratio of around 3 out of every 4 rows, instead of 184 as specified in the pattern. Made two buttonholes instead of one.
Modifications I wish I'd made: A different increase for the ribbing section at the bottom. I'm not that happy with how you can sort of see the increase row. Plus I would have done the increases in the middle of the ribs, not at the end. Also, I would have done smaller raglan increases as I feel like the sleeves are pretty large. In fact, next time I might do the whole thing on smaller needles to get a smaller, more fitted sweater
1 comments:
I can see what you mean about the sleeves. You're the second person I know to finish a sweater this past week and wish the sleeves were smaller. I hope we're not going to see the design trends swing towards puffy sleeves again anytime soon! The orange color looks fantastic on you. What a super sweater for the summer!
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