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<\/p>\nA couple of days ago I think I finished this sweater —<\/p>\n
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I say “I think” because I’m not at all sure it fits. The sleeves are awfully tight, and the sleeve caps are very lumpy. I’m somewhat tempted to redo the sleeves, but only somewhat — because as you can see, they were plenty of work.<\/p>\n
Here are some details:<\/p>\n
Yarn, purchased at the Maine Fiber Frolic in 2006 from Ruit Farm North<\/a>, four hanks of natural dark brown and two hanks of light natural tan Coopworth yarn, something like DK or worsted weight; by mail order from Hatchtown Farm<\/a>, two hanks of natural white and one hank of natural silver gray maybe a tiny bit thicker than the other yarn. At least, the gray seemed a little thicker than the rest. All lovely lanolin-smelling wool. I have a bunch of all but the silver gray left. Well, I wore it out in public tonight when I went to the library to renew Landscape with Reptile<\/u>, which is an entirely other subject. At least it’s big enough that I can get my arms into the sleeves.\n<\/p>\n \n<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A couple of days ago I think I finished this sweater — I say “I think” because I’m not at all sure it fits. The sleeves are awfully tight, and the sleeve caps are very lumpy. I’m somewhat tempted to redo the sleeves, but only somewhat — because as you can see, they were plenty … <\/p>\n
\nPattern, for the fair isle pattern I followed the charts in Knitting in the Old Way<\/u>, Gibson-Roberts and Robson, pp 164-166. For the sweater pattern I tried to follow this pattern<\/a> on the Garnstudio web site. Maybe that wasn’t such a good idea. In spite of Theresa’s lessons on reading Norwegian patterns<\/a>, I don’t think I got it all. Mostly I didn’t increase the sleeves properly, or maybe the gauge was wrong. Or of course, maybe it’s just that my fair isle gets too tight. I keep trying not to let it pucker, but it’s always a struggle.<\/p>\n