I still need to graft the undersides of the sleeves (That sounds nicer than ‘armpits’, I think) and weave in a few ends, but it’s basically done! I wanted to get a picture while it was light.
I used Elizabeth Zimmermann’s sewn bind off on the neck and it’s wonderful. It’s stretchy without being sloppy, which is what always happened when I’d bind off normally but on larger needles. I really like it!
It’s mostly Wool-Ease worsted and the green is some superwash merino Zib gave me.
Pattern from Knitting Without Tears, but it’s very much like this one from last winter’s knitty. Stripes randomly generated by the Random Stripe Generator.
Modifications: Decreases were SSK last two body stitches, k first sleeve stitch, k2tog two sleeve stitches at every sleeve corner marker every other row, and I didn’t keep count but just started the neck when I ran out of sleeve stitches.
Wowza! It’s beautiful!
wonderful! way to go mama.
you have to tell me though- what are the advantages to bottom up (as opposed to top down?)
I think the advantage for me is that the exciting part - the decreases for the shoulder shaping - are at the end of the project so I have them to look forward to. I also like that at the end of the project it goes faster and faster as the stitches get eaten up by the decreases.
Something I know about myself is I am unlikely to knit a triangular shawl from the point up because I would get all dispirited as every row got longer and longer. If I knit a raglan from the top down the advantage of tryonability as I go would not outweigh my own personal above-detailed knitting foibles, I am sure, and I would end up with a half-finished sweater.
That said, I do like how easy it is to make a top-down longer in the body and sleeves and I may try to overcome my idiosyncrasies and knit one anyway. Perhaps if I had some interesting colorwork to keep me happy down on the body….
Cute!!
The nice thing about top down is that when you are knitting the body, it’s just knit knit knit in the round, no increasing, no paying attention to row counts, just knitting. I think the body went faster than the other parts on Niels’ top down becauseof that.
I love it! Where’s MINE? LOL
Very nice! I really like the colors and the arrangement of stripes. I learned to knit top-down, but most patterns are bottom-up, so I try to be flexible. I always remember, however, EZ’s discussion of running out of yarn. If you knit from the bottom up, she pointed out, you can always pretend that you meant to do colorwork on the yoke and sleeves. No one, she felt, would start a sweater without enough yarn to get to the armscye. (I don’t think sweaters have underarms. And if you don’t like that word for humans either, we have oxters.)
it looks great! so envious of your knitting abilities/finding time to knit, etc.
(i’m also noticing your foot made it in the bottom left of the picture!)
As Phoebe’s mom who knows her well, I, for one, am still absolutely stunned by these knitting accomplishments. And envious, and jealous, and, and, well I knew she had a spectacular mind, but who knew about these hands?
Great job, sweetheart!
The foot was for you Nataly :-p
Thanks Mom!
I love it Phoebe! I am so glad you included the link so I can give it a try too. I agree…I have a hard time knitting things where the rows get longer and longer each time. My brain knows it is the same thing logically, but I can’t help it.