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11/13/2004 6:43:38 PM
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bets
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Oh, yours looks much better than mine! (Mine remains in UFO land!) The color is great, and the texture looks good! Pleased?
Betsy
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11/13/2004 8:56:26 PM
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ecasey
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Sandra, it`s lovely! It`s quite similar to mine with the tie-closure, but mine had the lace parts. Are you finding it really heavy though? I haven`t had a day cold enough to wear mine yet - it`s like a jacket more than a cardi!
Eileen.
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"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the STARS!" (Oscar Wilde)
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11/13/2004 9:55:54 PM
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Jamie
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Such a lovely photo! Beautiful color, great fit and really pretty knitter! Jamie
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11/14/2004 1:55:19 AM
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MacChick
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Very pretty!!!!!!! It does look more like the weight of a jacket, so I`ll bet it`s a right cozy thing this time of year and on through Feb!
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11/14/2004 3:07:55 AM
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Shui Kuen Kozinski
Posts 13217
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Sandra: the cardigan looks so beautiful on you. I love the color. I have to go to knitter`s and take a look that pattern.
Shui Kuen
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11/14/2004 4:46:17 AM
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patw
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Ditto, Ditto for me too.
Cardi looks great on you.
I too will have to look up
this pattern.
patw
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11/14/2004 6:36:25 AM
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Patricia
Posts 1802
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Sandra the cardi is really pretty and a great color of you. I think that I will have to check out this pattern. Good job.
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11/14/2004 7:30:54 AM
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Guest
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What a terrific color! That is a definate put-me-on-and-feel-brighter-immediately wardropbe choice!
Theresa
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11/14/2004 7:54:33 AM
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Les
Posts 4243
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Love the look of the sweater on you, sandra and the colour - used that raspberry in my nieces sweater and loved knitting with it!
Les
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11/14/2004 10:26:09 AM
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Sandra
The sweater looks fabulous! I love the color. The style is great because you can dress it up or be casual. What a great wardrobe piece. Good job on the knitting. What`s next?
Heather
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11/14/2004 11:18:04 AM
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Marta
Posts 2140
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Really pretty, and great picture. Gorgeous work.
Marta
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11/14/2004 12:49:39 PM
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Guest
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Sandra,
That looks great on you! And I love the color.
Laura
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11/14/2004 9:14:31 PM
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Sandra D
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Thank you all for the nice compliments!
I`m pleased that it is done and wearable, but it seemed like a lot work given the simple style of the sweater and the large gauge. Unexpected stuff happened. First, about an inch into the body I noticed that the gauge was turning out larger than my swatch. So I thought, OK, I`m larger on the bottom anyhow, so let`s make it a design feature and decrease 4 stitches twice on the sides, and make a little side shaping. Then as I progressed in the knitting, the bottom started to roll up--the one row of reverse stockinette on the right side was not enough to stop the dreaded stockinette roll. I remembered Ann`s tip from a few months back to solve this problem by picking up stitches along the bottom and binding off. Fortunately, this worked! I didn`t have to do this to the end of sleeve borders which had the same one row of reverse stockinette--maybe the smaller circumference of the sleeve curtails the roll-up tendency.
By the time I came to the sleeves, the second batch of backup Araucania arrived and it was a different dyelot.
So I had the opportunity to try alternating balls every two rows, except since I only had about 1/3 of the yarn I needed from the old dyelot, it was more like 4 rows of new dyelot to 2 rows of old dyelot most of the time. I did both sleeves at the same time so that the alternating dyelot sequence was the same on both sleeves. I was relieved when the sleeves were done and they matched the body pretty well.
When it came to seaming the sleeves, I was torn between doing a full stitch allowance on both sides or a half stitch. On the one hand, the full stitch is easier and looks more invisible. On the other hand the half stitch would be less bulky (something to consider given the thicknes of the yarn and the floats on the side from alternating dyelots). I ended up doing one sleeve with the full stitch, trying it on, and thinking this is too tight and the seam is too thick. Instead of immediately going into the disheartening task of ripping out the seam, I did the second sleeve with the half stitch allowance. That sleeve I didn`t like either, it seemed too loose, with no stability and also bagging at the elbow. I tried the first sleeve on again, and this time it seemed perfect. I think this illustrates that cotton, unlike wool, stretches out easily, kind of like newly washed jeans after a couple hours of wear, so my first sleeve had stretched out with repeated trying on. I`m just glad I hadn`t ripped out that first seam immediately! The rest of the sweater went easily: the set-in sleeves fit their opening perfectly and the twisted cords were fun and novel(for me!) to do. Possible changes that I might do would be to add grosgrain ribbon to the underside of the front opening to make it lie flatter and extend the 3/4 sleeves to full length to make it more of an all seasons sweater. But for now, I`m done with it!
Eileen & MacChick, this is a heavy sweater! I used 6 and 1/2 100gram hanks which is equivalent to 13 50 gram balls. I figure an equivalent sweater for me in in worsted wool would take about 8 or 9 50 gram balls.
Heather, I`m on to knitting a sweater for my husband in some chunky yarn, and swatching the HW. Maybe the forest glade heather will tell me what it wants to be!
Sandra
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11/14/2004 11:30:34 PM
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benne
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Sandra,
Your sweater is beautiful and you look very pretty in that color, that raspberry is you dahling!
Benne
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