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Stonehaven Sweater: done!
Jun. 21st, 2020 11:15 amYou probably knew this was almost finished. To be honest I hadn't expected the final steps to take so little time. Sewing a garment together is something I can do pretty fast, as most people know.
With only six rows of ribbing, the front neckline was finished rather quickly.
I picked up the stitches for the neckline in the decreases around it. The decrease stitches (k2tog and ssk) are already slanted to the side, and if you pick up stitches in them you'll apparantly get a nice line (half of the slanted stitch) right below your ribbing. Learn something new every project!
The pattern called for a centered double decrease. There are several ways to do this stitch, but next time I would rather do a decrease on either side of a single central stitch that is knitted. I think that would be prettier and less messy.
The ribbing was knit on 3.5 mm needles, half a needle size smaller than the rest of the garment.
Then all that was left to do was stitch up all the seams. I used a ladder stitch combined with a backstitch for the side seams, and an overcast seam for setting the sleeves. At first I was determined never to knit a seamed project again, but in truth the result isn't as horrible as I first thought. Of course less seaming is better if you don't like sewing by hand or if you think sewn seams look weird. but already you can see I deviated from the pattern by using kitchener stitch on the shoulder seams and knitting the sleeves in the round. It would be just as easy to knit the body of this sweater in the round -- the front and back panels are exactly the same except for the neckline. Men's patterns -- eh?
And then it was done! Eisirt took the trouble to wear it with a nice white shirt for the photo, combed his hair and all:
He said the sleeves were dragging the shoulders down a bit, so I crocheted a chain from shoulderpoint to shoulderpoint with a 3 mm hook, attaching to the base of the ribbing at the back neckline along the way. It took a bit of finagling to get the tension right so the ribbing didn't stand away from the body.
(And on that note, although the sleeve pattern matches perfectly to the pattern on the chest, next time I would knit the entire sleeve in pattern.)
I really love how this project turned out. It's not a very tight fit, because he doesn't like that. But it's VERY flattering. Even if you combine it with your cats-with-glitter-crowns sweatpants.
I would happily knit this again! It's interesting enough to keep you entertained, but not so hard that you can't knit on it when you've had a hard day. There are only 12 other projects made from this pattern, and I think that is a shame. Go forth and show it some love: Stonehaven Sweater by Jane Howorth.
With only six rows of ribbing, the front neckline was finished rather quickly.
I picked up the stitches for the neckline in the decreases around it. The decrease stitches (k2tog and ssk) are already slanted to the side, and if you pick up stitches in them you'll apparantly get a nice line (half of the slanted stitch) right below your ribbing. Learn something new every project!
The pattern called for a centered double decrease. There are several ways to do this stitch, but next time I would rather do a decrease on either side of a single central stitch that is knitted. I think that would be prettier and less messy.
The ribbing was knit on 3.5 mm needles, half a needle size smaller than the rest of the garment.
Then all that was left to do was stitch up all the seams. I used a ladder stitch combined with a backstitch for the side seams, and an overcast seam for setting the sleeves. At first I was determined never to knit a seamed project again, but in truth the result isn't as horrible as I first thought. Of course less seaming is better if you don't like sewing by hand or if you think sewn seams look weird. but already you can see I deviated from the pattern by using kitchener stitch on the shoulder seams and knitting the sleeves in the round. It would be just as easy to knit the body of this sweater in the round -- the front and back panels are exactly the same except for the neckline. Men's patterns -- eh?
And then it was done! Eisirt took the trouble to wear it with a nice white shirt for the photo, combed his hair and all:
He said the sleeves were dragging the shoulders down a bit, so I crocheted a chain from shoulderpoint to shoulderpoint with a 3 mm hook, attaching to the base of the ribbing at the back neckline along the way. It took a bit of finagling to get the tension right so the ribbing didn't stand away from the body.
(And on that note, although the sleeve pattern matches perfectly to the pattern on the chest, next time I would knit the entire sleeve in pattern.)
I really love how this project turned out. It's not a very tight fit, because he doesn't like that. But it's VERY flattering. Even if you combine it with your cats-with-glitter-crowns sweatpants.
I would happily knit this again! It's interesting enough to keep you entertained, but not so hard that you can't knit on it when you've had a hard day. There are only 12 other projects made from this pattern, and I think that is a shame. Go forth and show it some love: Stonehaven Sweater by Jane Howorth.
