Comments | abigailvr: finished sweater and stripes??

abigailvr

finished sweater and stripes??

Sep 01, 2005 16:23

I finished the the top down Crayon sweater for my friend's son. It looks very wide to me. I need to wash it and see if that changes the fit at all. I think it will be wearable, it just might be a tad on the wide side.

( see the crayon sweater )

knitting, finished objects, wip, pictures

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asynja September 1 2005, 23:43:12 UTC

The sweater is adorable. I personally weave in ends as I go...much easier that way, so I generally only have 2-4 ends to weave in at the end!

nikkis September 2 2005, 01:56:39 UTC

What a gorgeous user pic!

A: what are you making with the stripes?

abigailvr September 2 2005, 02:53:11 UTC

It's a bunting. I couldn't find a picture from the pattern online. It's like a baby bag with a hood and sleeves. It zips up the front. It's for putting the baby in when it's cold outside. :)

nikkis September 2 2005, 04:30:10 UTC

Oh! I was thinking that bunting was a knitting term, like basting! Only for knitting! LOL!

Duh.

I think they call them sleepers here...often made of fleece.

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I think you can reverse the starting row.. spinnity September 4 2005, 20:01:20 UTC

Hi Abigail..
I think you could make the first row of the other side a purl row instead of a knit (depending on what you did for the first front.. ) and then you'd do a purl & a knit for each color stripe, instead of a knit and a purl. Then the stripes would match. If you end up with a extra row @ the bottom or one too few, you can take the excess into the bottom seam & no one will know.

I might mix techniques for the ends.. pick a couple colors to carry (maybe light blue & green) and then weave the other ends however you like. You could knit a couple in as you go & weave a couple into the seams later. That way you don't end up with any noticable patterns of end weaving, like every color having a bunchy first 10 stitches.

I knit a Debby Bliss fair isle baby sweater in 1990 or so.. and cut all the ends. I was sorry later.

Re: I think you can reverse the starting row.. abigailvr September 4 2005, 20:14:39 UTC

That is a good point about the starting row. somehow that didn't occur to me.

You don't think leaving them to weave in the seams will make the seaming more difficult?

Re: I think you can reverse the starting row.. spinnity September 4 2005, 21:01:46 UTC

No, not really. But then, I often hide my ends in the seams. That's what I did on the striped Cotton Candy sweater (only 2 colors.. mostly carried the yarn up the side, but all ends were at row ends.)