I love that pattern. I’ve trolled Ravelry for many hours and I’ve never seen a sweater with the inset. You do beautiful work.
Whatcha' Knitting? March, 2025
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Thanks so much everyone for your kind words and encouragement!
@Erzabet I started out with this free pattern (I’m using Drops yarn in a fingering weight when the pattern calls for aran weight, I was wrong previously when I said it called for DK)
Because of the yarn weight difference I had to do maths which is always a bit of an experiment!
However, I’m sharing the pattern to show how the overall pattern was modified. A colour change in a centre panel is a relatively easy modification. And you’ll see I ignored the first section of the pattern to eliminate the bottom flat panel and just worked the cable pattern all the way up, adding some length.
I was going to add some grey sewing or crochet into some of the black area, I still might, but little Mister says no, so I’ll leave it for now.
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Finished a pair of socks. I knit these toe up, starting with the turbo toes, then adapting the Catoosa sock pattern to a toe up.
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Looks like you altered the sleeve as well, to be more of a set-in sleeve. I get why so many patterns do the drop-sleeve thing…so easy to just pick up or seam a straight edge, but I prefer the look of a set-in sleeve myself. I’d love to see a pic with the sleeve out from the body, to see that transition.
Nicely done!
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Well, would you believe it is just a modified drop sleeve? It fits more like a set in sleeve too but I think that’s the extreme streatchiness of the fabric. When on me, it goes in and out in all the places like it’s fitted with decreases at the waist and increases at the bust but it’s just straight up to the underarm. The stretch in the stitch pattern is immense, I can put another person in there with me.
It was the easiest shape and knit despite looking otherwise.
I was thinking the underarm didn’t look nice on the photos where there is plain stockinette (filler on the sleeve) seamed to the bubbly stitch pattern (filler on the body) and was thinking that I perhaps should have put the bubbly stitch on the sleeve too. But then I realised this can’t be seen when it’s on. The pattern was just stockinette filler on the sleeve too.
I did change the bubbly stitch pattern as I did a section and it looked like badly tensioned ribbing, wobbly, but the WS looked nice so I switched it around.
The sleeve just has some stitches bound off for the modified drop, same as body.
I’ll take a pic
By the way, I also prefer a set in sleeve for a fitted top but although I have made my own shaping for a set in sleeve cap before I didn’t want to do it with this. With it being the “easy” project for over Xmas I just wanted simple shape and no charting.
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Really lovely socks, ver neatly worked with an interesting heel turn. Thank you for the pattern information. I had never seen Turbo Toes before. Thanks for that as well.
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Always amazed by socks! Very nice and way beyond my ability or understanding.
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I hope to get to the point with my knitting that I could consider this sweater an “easy” project. It’s a lovely sweater.
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Ha, don’t worry I had my share of difficulties. Despite the easy shape i had 3 mishaps which looked unsalvageable… but got there in the end.
Socks though, I get into a cold sweat just at the thought. Way too hard.
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Thanks for the pic! I suspected you’d done that square inset shape–it’s amazing how much that helps with fit, over a full-on drop shoulder. It lets the shoulder line come closer to one’s actual shoulder.
Yes, it’s very square when you look closely, and really not as attractive as a properly shaped sleeve cap, but in this top it isn’t noticable when it’s on. I calculated how many stitches based on the pattern gauge and number of stitches bound off converted to my fingering weight gauge. There’s quite a lot of extreme laziness going on in my knitting design but it seem to be working well enough.
I’ve only made one fully "drop shoulder " rather than modified drop, and it was a semi bat wing shape too. The additional bulk is not ideal but with the bat wing shape it carries itself off well enough. That was laziness too as I was charting colourwork to continue across from body to sleeve, matching rows to stitches for the seaming and I thought I couldn’t risk the chance of the 2 bound off underarm edges not aligning if I needed to shift the seam to match the colourwork. I eventually decided that as loads of patterns are fully drop, not modified, then it would be fine.
I suppose many of us have a different focus for each knit. I have focused at times on fit and nice set in sleeves, and other time it’s the colourwork that takes priority. I’m not sure I’ll ever get to the point of combining it all together!
I finished my shawl the other day! It is from leftover yarn, some glow in the dark (I’d show a picture of it glowing but i doubt my camera would pick it up). This was the one with the pattern I couldn’t figure out at first. I just added feathers at the bottoms from leftover embroidery floss.
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Great use of left over yarn. The feathers are cute. I never think of embellishments like this, I must.
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Beautiful work!
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Thanks so much!
I have 4 active knit projects going, these two have not been posted before. This first one is Jessica McDonald’s My Fletching Worsted (available on Ravelry https://ravel.me/my-fletching-worsted). It is a top down, yoke sweater with colorwork, and features a folded neckline. I like the simple motif which allows me to continue practicing stranded colorwork.
I decided to try another mosaic shawl using 2 of the yarns included in a colorwork crate I bought last year. the yarn is a cotton/wool blend that was hand dyed. The yarn is discontinued.
I have finished the first stockinette section and am just starting the mosiac section. That little tail of purple sticking out at the bottom is the contrasting color.
This one is a Helen Kennedy design called Cold Pale Moon (available on Ravelry https://ravel.me/cold-pale-moon )
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Beautiful projects! Thank you for the pattern and yarn information too.
I am knitting a pair of socks for my daughter with Knit picks Stroll in Sapphire Blue color.
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Started crocheting the Montastraea top by Michelle Ferguson, using Scheepjes Whirl “Earl Grey Custard”.
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Yummy in all ways!
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