2/30: Taking shape
I've reclaimed the yarn that I bought originally to make the impossible cardigan, and am making a possible cardigan instead. The new pattern is called Romy by German designer Ankestrick.
It's challenging enough to stay interesting, but not so difficult that I can't listen to a book while I work. And--bonus!--it's kind of cute.
What's more, it uses one of the coolest new techniques ever to come out of the creative ferment that is Ravelry: Susie Meyer's Contiguous. Contiguous is a shoulder shaping method that lets you knit a top-down, one-piece, completely seamless sweater with what looks like tailored, set-in sleeves.
And it is so cool! You start at the top of the collar:
Collar, neck shaping and shoulder seams completed, and you can see the start of the sleeve caps between the markers
...and it's like watching a completed sweater rise up out of a pool of yarn, one row at a time. Like the Liquid Metal man in Terminator 2!
Run, security guard, run!
...only soft and non-murderous.
Here it comes!
The shoulder cap and armhole "seam" are created with increases. You do things like short-row neck shaping, buttonholes, and front/back shaping all at the same time--so there's definitely a row-by-row spreadsheet involved, unless your sense of knitting topology is way clearer than mine.
(If anyone's interested, I'd be happy to share my spreadsheet--the pattern itself is condensed to the point of head-scratching, to be honest.)
I left off this evening at the point where the sleeves diverge from the body.
From here, I'll knit the rest of the body, then go back and pick up live stitches and knit the sleeves in the round from the upper arm down to the wrist.
And then only thing left to do will be to sew on buttons and weave in the last yarn end.
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