Project Sprig: Divide for sleeves
Jan. 30th, 2021 04:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
janestarzReporting in -- and I'm still very happy with this pattern! I tried on what I have so far over a regular Hema t-shirt which is probably what I'll be wearing under this once it's done, and I'm happy to see the jumper covers it perfectly, even before I sew up the neckline yoke.
It's going so fast right now:
I've done all the increases and even frogged back two rows because I'd surpassed the amount of stitches for the back panel already. The last few rows of the work, I just counted each section and added a marker for every increase row I'd have to do. I still had to do 1.5 increases (those odd three stitches!) on the sleeves, four increases (8 sts) for the front, and the back was already done. That's what happens when you add unexpected short rows to your work.
I wonder if it would have been prettier if instead of increasing every second row, I would add one short row (back and forth) after each increase row for the back panel only. Effectively increasing every fourth row instead of every second row; to space the increases out more evenly. It may have been.
What I did now (5 short rows (5 knits, 5 purls -- how do you even count short rows?!) caused the problem with the sleeve stitch counts. Because I added an odd number of increases only on one side of the sleeve. If I had done 6 short rows, it wouldn't have resulted in missing 3 stitches at the point I described earlier, but just 2 missing stitches.
Something I may try next time!
I was a little dismayed because I thought I would need to pick up 12 stitches under the arm, which seemed like a lot. I had mis-remembered that; for the size I'm knitting I only need 6 additional stitches under the arm. I'm wondering if that will be enough. But this is something you can only see as you progress a couple of rows. By now I've had a few armscyes already, so I can compare where the armscye sits before the sleeve is knit, to the finished look of when the garment is finished!
I'm still mostly wearing the same Hema shirts as back then, so it's a good enough reference.
Harvest -- too high, resulting in ugly folds under the arm. Before picture - After picture.
Boden -- just right, I think: Before picture - After picture.
Now that I look back, the difference isn't too much where the raglan lines end, because they are pointing roughly to the same spot on my body. On both garments the underarm stitches sit pretty close to the seam where the t-shirt sleeve is set into the shirt body, at some 2 centimeters below the armpit.
The main difference I can spot is that with the Harvest cardigan the stitches under the arm are stretched, like the cardigan wasn't wide enough to fit over my ample bosom. This would imply that I really do need to pick up enough stitches, or risk the fabric pulling up to a narrower part of my torso.
Since I can't accurately pinpoint where the raglan ends on my body -- or it looks similar enough on both -- it's still a pretty guessing game.
That means I'll just keep going, knit a few rounds, and fit again.
If I want an educated guess, I could always measure the distance these stitches would need to cross, and calculate by gauge how many stitches would be needed.
Or I could just try what the pattern says, and see how it turns out.
Edited to add: Boden casts on 6 sts under the arm, and Sprig needs 8! I guess that's ...something?
It's going so fast right now:
I've done all the increases and even frogged back two rows because I'd surpassed the amount of stitches for the back panel already. The last few rows of the work, I just counted each section and added a marker for every increase row I'd have to do. I still had to do 1.5 increases (those odd three stitches!) on the sleeves, four increases (8 sts) for the front, and the back was already done. That's what happens when you add unexpected short rows to your work.
I wonder if it would have been prettier if instead of increasing every second row, I would add one short row (back and forth) after each increase row for the back panel only. Effectively increasing every fourth row instead of every second row; to space the increases out more evenly. It may have been.
What I did now (5 short rows (5 knits, 5 purls -- how do you even count short rows?!) caused the problem with the sleeve stitch counts. Because I added an odd number of increases only on one side of the sleeve. If I had done 6 short rows, it wouldn't have resulted in missing 3 stitches at the point I described earlier, but just 2 missing stitches.
Something I may try next time!
I was a little dismayed because I thought I would need to pick up 12 stitches under the arm, which seemed like a lot. I had mis-remembered that; for the size I'm knitting I only need 6 additional stitches under the arm. I'm wondering if that will be enough. But this is something you can only see as you progress a couple of rows. By now I've had a few armscyes already, so I can compare where the armscye sits before the sleeve is knit, to the finished look of when the garment is finished!
I'm still mostly wearing the same Hema shirts as back then, so it's a good enough reference.
Now that I look back, the difference isn't too much where the raglan lines end, because they are pointing roughly to the same spot on my body. On both garments the underarm stitches sit pretty close to the seam where the t-shirt sleeve is set into the shirt body, at some 2 centimeters below the armpit.
The main difference I can spot is that with the Harvest cardigan the stitches under the arm are stretched, like the cardigan wasn't wide enough to fit over my ample bosom. This would imply that I really do need to pick up enough stitches, or risk the fabric pulling up to a narrower part of my torso.
Since I can't accurately pinpoint where the raglan ends on my body -- or it looks similar enough on both -- it's still a pretty guessing game.
That means I'll just keep going, knit a few rounds, and fit again.
If I want an educated guess, I could always measure the distance these stitches would need to cross, and calculate by gauge how many stitches would be needed.
Or I could just try what the pattern says, and see how it turns out.
Edited to add: Boden casts on 6 sts under the arm, and Sprig needs 8! I guess that's ...something?
