Hey needlework community!
It has been a minute since I’ve posted on NeedleworkMonday; it’s good to be back!☺️
Since the last time I posted about my experience knitting my first sweater, I have completed the project and the sweater is off the needles. I’m excited for it to get a little cold, so that my sister can model for me in her sweater.
This sweater took me a little over a month and it’s a pretty good start for sweater knitting, I believe. I used five whole skeins and each of the photos in the collage is taken after I was through one complete skein. It might be difficult to tell from the picture, but I decided to finish off the sweater with mock rib keeping with the cable theme of the sweater. It was the first time I knit mock cables and I enjoyed it a lot.
Being as this was my first ever sweater, I have some ideas to make my next sweater a better fit. Here are three things I’d like to do for the next time around:
- Add short rows to the back of the sweater. I’m knitting a tank top now and other ravelry knitters who have worked on this pattern have commented how adding short rows to the back have made for a better fitting top.
- If knitting a women’s sweater, I’d make the waist go in slightly to accentuate the curves. The advantage of handmade clothes is that you get it tailored to your liking and now that I have an understanding of the construction of a raglan, I could improve on the boxy design.
- Knitting the cable detail on the sleeves, I was inspired to knit a large cable motif which would be the highlight. Also, I’m curious to see if I could create my own cable pattern. While traveling through Karnataka, India I came across some local art and I am going to attempt designing a pattern from that form of art.
I’ve been reaching out to knitting designers because I have so many ideas but I feel like I don’t know about knitting techniques enough to do as I please. However, there are a few projects that I’m excited to get casted on my needles. That being said, I’m going to pace myself and knit one project at a time. Loose ends (pun intended) give me anxiety and knitting is my meditation.
Keep those needles moving, folks!
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Congratulations on your finished sweater! I’m sure your sister will adore it. The color is so soft and pretty and you did a nice job on the cable work :)
It’s great that you took note on what you’d like to do for the next time. Thanks for sharing the finished project!
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Soooo beautiful! I love everything on the sweater: the color, the cables and the slightly cropped fit. And I am amazed that you finished it in one month. I feel slightly ashamed, as I always need several month and sometimes years to finish my clothes (I find it hard to concentrate on one item at a time, so I knit several simultaneously)
I am hugely curious if you try out the short row neckline for a new sweater, as I still have not tried it, but think this will give a better fit. I hope you will blog about the technique.
So, congratulations to your beautiful sweater <3
Thank you so much! It was a fun project to work on; I got to learn so much. I adore the fact that you work on multiple projects at the same time. You must be great at multitasking.
I have seen other knitters add short rows to the neckline but I was already past the neckline in my sweater. I would have totally added that to the sweater I just completed. Definitely doing it next time.
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