Classic sweater

Montage 8ply merino  on 4.0mm needles.

I started this originally as a boxy classic jumper but decided I wanted something a bit more fitted.

I ripped it all out  and restarted it as a top down raglan.  The pattern is for Aran weight so I need to adjust the number of stitches as I go. As the 3 skeins are all different colours although the same colourway ( the joy of handpainted yarn)I need to alternate 1 row from each ball.

As this is in Melbourne I’m only working on it for a couple of days a fortnight.  I’m still doing the initial sets of raglan increases.

Boatneck Bluebell didn’t work with this handpainted wool so it is back to a classic sweater.  This time I’m knitting it in the round and modifying it for waist shaping.

I love the colours in this wool, shades of caramel, chocolate, cranberry, olive, the colourway is called aubergine, not as purple as I would expect for something called aubergine.

This is finally going well, I have finished the decreases to the waist, 12 rows then start the increases to the bust. I decreased 20 stitches (just under 10cm) to the waist so not boxy at all.  I need to add back all these stitches over the next 20cm (61 rows) so an increase every 15 rows.

April 2010.  Well I picked this up again recently and finished up to the armholes.  Something has gone wrong and it has 2-3″ negative ease!  The pattern I started with was a tension of 20st instead of 22st to 10cm on a 4mm needle.  As it was an Australian pattern it didn’t occur to me that it would be an odd tension.  4.5mm means 20st using an 8ply wool.  It goes on easily and sits nicely so I’m not redoing it.  It has therefore changed from a casual loose jumper to wear with jeans to a close fitting one!

So now to redo the top to match what has already been made.

Stitch count at underarm:

Back: 88

Front: 100. – 12 stitches to be reduced due to vertical bust darts

Sleeve  – ??