What’s that, again?
Doesn’t look much like a sweater at the moment, does it? But there’s my Tatami, all blocked.
“Closest” to you at the bottom of the picture are the two fronts, then the sleeves, stretched out to either side, and then the back, stretching out toward the top of the frame.
The next step is to fold the whole thing in half and sew the seams up the sides and out the sleeves. Then it will be completely done except for crocheting the ties, which will be fairly quick. Especially since I don’t plan on making them as long as called for in the pattern. If I needed to wrap it multiple times around my waist each time I wore the sweater, it would never get out of the closet–that’s much too much work! So, shorter, more like Carolyn‘s.
But, really, almost completely done. Isn’t it exciting? It’s only been, oh, seven months. Longer, of course, if you include spinning the yarn. Which came from roving (half corriedale, half merino) that I bought at Rhinebeck in October, and which was the very first yarn I spun on my Little Gem last November.
Anyhow, Tatami and I did have one other adventure together last night. It wasn’t clear in the pattern whether the purl-stitch closest to the front openings should be dropped . . . I mean, I thought it should, but I read the instructions five times and still wasn’t sure, so . . . I did NOT drop them. But, of course, I should have–since that stitch runs all the way up the front edge and down to the back edge, which meant there were two rows in the back that were completely wrong. (I should really have gone with my instincts, huh?) So, what did I do? I unpicked the bind-off row . . . not even unknitting it, but just undoing the actual bind-off . . . until I got to the appropriate stitch on both fronts and then dropped it . . . so that all I had to do was re-bind-off. Kind of a pain, but . . . at least the sweater works now. Phew!
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it’s a clapotis sweater! cool.
Beautiful!! And, how cool is it that you completely made the whole darn thing from roving to completed object. I can’t wait to see it all sewn up.
woo! i can’t wait to see it finished!
That unpicking the bind-off row? That’s the sort of thing that really makes me feel like a knitter. Yay for you!
A whole handspun sweater… wow. That’s a real accomplishment! I can hardly imagine spinning enough of the same yarn (and consistently, too) to make something that substantial.
It’s going to be splendid once the ties go on!
You should be proud! You spun your own yarn & knit a sweate rout of it. It’s grogeous.
That’s going to be so pretty when finished! Good for you for going back and redoing the bindoff. I’m not sure I would have been so good!
It’s looking fabulous. You’re in the home stretch! BTW, glad you went back and dropped those stitches. It would have bothered you forever if you hadn’t. And we can’t have that!
I’m looking forward to seeing it modeled.
I can’t wait to see it modeled! I think the tie changed will be fantastic!
Yay for being ohsoclose to finishing!
That is such a cool sweater!
That is really nice! Well done!
Very pretty and yes, go with the gut