Hello all,
As per usual I have made many neck attempts and now I’m looking for more ideas.
Sweater is a drop shoulder, very basic rectangle front and back. I like the natural roll on the neck edge stockinette which sits on me as a soft boat neck (and isn’t strangling at the neck). It rolls to show the reverse stockinette and it’s a kind of scruffy relaxed look which goes with this sweater.
Only thing is I’d like a touch more stability and for width of the neck to be a bit narrower but without seaming more of the shoulder (seaming causes the boat neck edge roll to be lost and the boat neck to be a bit strangling on front neck).
I thought some little neck gusset? I’ve tried quite a lot but probably not correctly due to my inexperience and lack of knowledge.
Here’s the front showing the roll
Here is from above, an attempt to show the area I think I can add a piece. Green line is roughly where it sits in my shoulder. Red triangle is where I think some kind of gusset is needed.
Hi Creations! This looks amazing, is this from a pattern or is it out of your brain? I’m so sorry, I absolutely don’t have the expertise at all to offer any solution. Always love seeing what you’re working on though!
Thanks Naypo.
No pattern. Every time I decide I must “just find a pattern I like and follow it,” I fail to do so.
This came about because a while back I spotted some discontinued yarn in a sale, a recycled acrylic, and at the time I was looking for a robust laundry-surviving yarn to remake a cashmere/merino/silk sweater which had been destroyed in the washing machine. As I wasn’t sure exactly how much yarn I needed, and wouldn’t be able to buy more, I basically bought enough for two sweaters so I would have no worries when doing the redesign/remake of the ruined sweater.
So… this is what I designed with the remainder yarn. As you can see I went for a design that was somewhat flexible with the two shades of grey, and used the spaghetti intarsia method. The sweater has more flexibility in each colour as I progressed through the pieces, the back was most important to have the correct colours in the correct place, then the front is the messy distorted stripes, they align with the back so were important at the join and less important across the front. The sleeves were the most flexible with irregular stripes although I still wanted them to have the 2 colours and look balanced within their irregularity.
It’s actually just finished drying after it’s premier wash so I’ll take a pic and post on the whatcha knitting thread later today.
The problem with designing my own is I have no dressmaking or tailoring knowledge whatsoever. The needlework teacher at school had palpitations whenever I walked in the room. I can’t even sew a button on well… so I encounter construction problems, measurements problems etc etc.
I made the sleeves 6 times!
Anyway, decided to leave the neck as a slit neck, just reinforced the very edge of the neck hole (shoulder seam) with an extra stitch to stop it pulling.
I made, oh, at least 20 different little neck gussets trying each one tacked in. My little Mister said each looked great but I wasn’t keen. I browsed hundreds of sweaters looking at neck lines and eventually just decided that it’s fine as it is. I really like the roll on it, the messiness goes with the distorted stripes.
I agree that the “messiness” works so well. I think any other finish wouldn’t fit with the vibe half as well. That’s so funny about the buttons, making this cardigan it only dawned on me half way through I’d have to face my fear of adding buttons on. I only needed 5 but I bought a pack of 10 for when they inevitably fall off.
