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janestarzAfter knitting a swatch I frogged all the way back to the lace yoke. This took a little time -- untangling and re-balling the yarn, carefully putting all the live stitches back on the needles and then I found out I was still several rows into the first increases. Instead of taking everything off the needles and risk losing a yarn-over or two on the final row of lace, I just un-knitted until I got there.
Well, almost. I realised I would still need to do those yarn-overs, so I saved some of them from being un-knitted.
Then I consulted Jannigje, math wizard and knitting talent extraordinaire. I really wanted to repeat the short rows in the back panel, but only the back panel this time. The sleeves in the previous version were a bit too wide (I have really narrow shoulders, compared to my bust) and I didn't like how the sleeves fell off my shoulder. I still needed to do the official increases and I also had added four extra rows in the first version.
So to recap:
- add 6 short rows in the back only (not on the sleeves);
- add 4 extra rows for added height;
- do 3 raglan increase rows as per the pattern.
We discussed options and she agreed it would be alright to just do the short rows on the back piece, between the increase markers at the raglan points. I would do an increase row with yarnovers and its companion row where you knit the yarnovers through the back loop. After each "tbl"-row I would do a single set of short rows (wrap and turn, purl back, wrap & turn, knit forwards).
At this time, I have no clue if I added the 4 extra rows or not...my notes don't say. I had calculated that I needed to do this in 15 rows but when tallying off my rounds, I only came to 14 rows. I'm just not sure if there are some extra rows there.
Meh.
In any case, after all the 'tbl'-rows and short rows were done, it was time to wrap up the sleeves. Should the front need some extra height too, I could repeat the short rows on the front without making the sleevelets any wider.
The first row meant casting off the sleeve stitches, and in the row after that you pick up stitches for the underarm. The pattern said to do 20, but now that I know I need more stitches for my bust, I might as well add 22 under the arm, right?
A quick fitting later (late night bra-exposed-super-grainy-non-internet-worthy pictures should not be shared here) and I could confirm this formula worked as well as any. It accounted for the extra height I needed in the back panel, I made a few stitches under the arm, and I even continued increasing after the armscye. I can only get away with that because my bust is so low, so the biggest part of my chest really is quite a way down from my armpit.
And it fit well! The cap sleeve sits right at the top of my shoulder and the underarm stitches don't dig into my armpit. The extra width of the underarm helps there as well, I'm sure.
And now that this finagling is all done, it's knitting straight on until the largest part of the bust.
Well, almost. I realised I would still need to do those yarn-overs, so I saved some of them from being un-knitted.
Then I consulted Jannigje, math wizard and knitting talent extraordinaire. I really wanted to repeat the short rows in the back panel, but only the back panel this time. The sleeves in the previous version were a bit too wide (I have really narrow shoulders, compared to my bust) and I didn't like how the sleeves fell off my shoulder. I still needed to do the official increases and I also had added four extra rows in the first version.
So to recap:
- add 6 short rows in the back only (not on the sleeves);
- add 4 extra rows for added height;
- do 3 raglan increase rows as per the pattern.
We discussed options and she agreed it would be alright to just do the short rows on the back piece, between the increase markers at the raglan points. I would do an increase row with yarnovers and its companion row where you knit the yarnovers through the back loop. After each "tbl"-row I would do a single set of short rows (wrap and turn, purl back, wrap & turn, knit forwards).
At this time, I have no clue if I added the 4 extra rows or not...my notes don't say. I had calculated that I needed to do this in 15 rows but when tallying off my rounds, I only came to 14 rows. I'm just not sure if there are some extra rows there.
Meh.
In any case, after all the 'tbl'-rows and short rows were done, it was time to wrap up the sleeves. Should the front need some extra height too, I could repeat the short rows on the front without making the sleevelets any wider.
The first row meant casting off the sleeve stitches, and in the row after that you pick up stitches for the underarm. The pattern said to do 20, but now that I know I need more stitches for my bust, I might as well add 22 under the arm, right?
A quick fitting later (late night bra-exposed-super-grainy-non-internet-worthy pictures should not be shared here) and I could confirm this formula worked as well as any. It accounted for the extra height I needed in the back panel, I made a few stitches under the arm, and I even continued increasing after the armscye. I can only get away with that because my bust is so low, so the biggest part of my chest really is quite a way down from my armpit.
And it fit well! The cap sleeve sits right at the top of my shoulder and the underarm stitches don't dig into my armpit. The extra width of the underarm helps there as well, I'm sure.
And now that this finagling is all done, it's knitting straight on until the largest part of the bust.
