I’ve started the sweater with the KP Wool of the Andes yarn. I’m trying it top down and am currently just working on the neck band.
Any tips or suggestions are welcome. If nothing else it should prove interesting.
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Good luck Mason!
In my experience, WOTA is itchy unless I wear something underneath, so you might want to take that into consideration when you’re trying it on for fit (unless you’re not an itchy guy, in which case, ignore me).
Wow, ok, thanks. I was feeling it and thought “Cool, this won’t be itchy”. Guess ya can’t always tell that way. I’m making it with extra ease so as to fit over a shirt as I never wear a sweater unless it’s over a shirt.
I am doing a pair of knee socks in WOTA right now…but I haven’t worn them yet…oh
Anyway…no advice…just rooting you on!
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Over a shirt is better anyway so you can take it off.
Yup
I go with a nice silky feeling shirt underneath. I can’t wait to see the finished product. Good luck!:cheering:
What pattern are you using?
I’m not. I don’t really like following someone else’s pattern. I prefer making something all my own. It’s just a simple raglan sweater and I am using percentages although I am already finding that my build is outside of the normal percentages.
My neck is thick and my shoulders are more broad and thick than average, so I am making adjustments to the percentages as I go. Going top down will help with that as it’s easier to try it on as I go.
I discovered last night that I seem to have left one pair of size 10 Options in my truck (at least I hope that’s where they are). I’ll be needing them as I will be using the two circs method for the increases until it gets large enough to fit on one circ. I’ll be making a trip out to the truck today to retrieve them as the work is on hold until I do.
WISHING YOU THE BEST OF LUCK! I feel the same way sometimes about following somesone’s pattern. The top down raglan I showed you last time (http://www.bluealvarez.com/bluealva/patterns/vanille.html) Is the best I’ve done yet. I’ve made a zillion of them for various people and she has a pretty good sizing chart if you need some kind of guide. I modified it a few times over to make a turtleneck here and there…BEST WISHES on yours…I’ve never tried the WOTA, but I have used Noro and I find wool to be quite uncomfortable. I like the Lambs Pride b/c it’s mixed with other fibers like mohair and is a little more gentle…
PS…so how can I get my husband to knit!? HAHAHA
I don’t have any suggestions, I gave up sweaters a long time ago! I did want to say that I love the new picture though!! When we travel I always look at the truckers and wonder if it’s our Knitting Guy!!! I’m sure they all think I’m crazy!!
God luck with the sweater! I’ve been praying for your Mom, I hope she is doing well.
Thanks Paiva for the link to the sweater pattern. I am going to have to try that one. It looks so comfortable.
I just finished a WOTA cardigan for myself . I used size 8 needles and found that the finished sweater is too loose. I think size 6 or 7 would have given a firmer knit. I find this worsted is more like a DK weight, I would suggest you knit a V-neck, that way you won’t have the itchy yarn around your neck.
Thanks. So far the size 8 for the neck band and size 10 for the body seems to be knitting up well, but then I do knit fairly tight anyway.
I thought about going V-neck but decided against it as I like the look of a rounded neck for a sweater. My skin isn’t all that sensitive anyway.
Any other suggestions are quite welcome.
Ah well, at least the mistake happened early on. I somehow buggered one of the increases below the neck band and created a hole in the fabric. I double checked that it wasn’t a dropped stitch, just a bad increase. No idea how I did it, but I did.
Starting over. At least I had the chance to try on the neck to see how it fit before I frogged it. Despite the fact that it looks really small it fit perfectly so I feel better about that and the frogging of this small amount of work was worth it for that if nothing else.
I think the rounded neck is a good one for you Mason. I also like the pattern that Paiva gave I think that would look good on anyone.
Oh way to go Mason on making your first sweater,and not even using a pattern. Way to go Mason. Enjoy making it and wearing it. Must show pictures in progress to show us people that don’t want to make them. We are to scared to try I guess. Really it is me who is to afraid to make the sweater.
Again good luck on making it.:woohoo:
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I agree, it does look good and I appreciate her posting it. I do read a lot of various patterns to get ideas and to learn. I prefer not following a specific pattern so if I screw it up I can say “I meant for it to look like that”. :mrgreen:
Thanks.
I meant for it to look like that".
I say that a lot too, lol.
WOTA works just fine for my DH, but not for me.
I too like your new look, Mason. Much cooler for the summer.
Happy sweater knitting!
:roflhard: Good one!!
I got a book on knitting sweaters from the top down… Never tried it yet. DGD found a sweater that she wants out of it so she bought me the book…
But since we live in Texas I can wait on it for a little bit…
Good luck with your sweater. Hope you don’t have to visit the frog pond to much. rip-it,rip-it.
You are a brave man, I would be too wussy to wing it with no pattern…Can’t wait to hear and see your progress!
Be sure to keep track of what you are doing in a notebook or something… for that book you are gonna put together…