RE: Designing the Perfect Cardigan Pattern | First Steps and Blending Sizes
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WAHHHHH your sweater is nearly done!!! And mine is still in my head 😱😆 and besides yours looks so lovely with the overall lace pattern and I am sure it is much more complicated to incorporate the shaping into a lace pattern than into stockinette.
So, I am in admiration mode :-D
So far I like that your shoulders are much smaller than in most pattern I looked at or which I made. I am not completely sure if this is because you decreased a lot more at the armholes or if it is related to the much deeper neckline you have on your sweater (my orange one has a very small crewneck) or if this is a completely different type of fit/pattern?
Also I like the idea of knitting the whole body at once to omit the sewing, but on the other hand I am so used to this (I fear lazy) method to set in sleeves into a garment where only the shoulder seems are closed. I am neither a big fan of picking up stitches and knitting sleeves in the round or sewing in sleeves which are already sewed into a tube (not sure if I could explain clearly). But I am here to learn… so I am really looking forward how this cardi will fit you.
Shame on me, while still knitting the first sleeve of my grey pearl stitch cardigan and while planning the „model“ cardigan I got lost on Ravelry and fell in love with this woman’s crochet cardigans. Now a tiny part of me wants to crochet :-DDDDD
https://www.ravelry.com/projects/bloomingwoolly?set=&page=&search=&sort=started_%20status_changed_&view=thumbnail
Hehe - I had started it before I saw your posts so it was already done as far as armhole shaping. I had also put it aside because, at the time, trying to work out how to do the decreases to get the right shoulder width was beyond me. Your posts kickstarted me and gave me a clue how to tackle it. I was constantly referring back to your "perfect" design.
The lace pattern and decreasing was a bit of a challenge, but fun, too 😍.
Do you remember when I knitted it before? I took all the pieces to Cyprus and my sister said, "No, that doesn't fit." (So cruel, these straightforward siblings). I undid it all and waited until now to try again.
The shoulders are narrower because of the scoop neck, but I have also sized down for the shoulders to get a narrower back width. For a round neck cardigan with similar tension for the same size in the same pattern book, the back shoulder has 19 stitches (this one has 10); and the front shoulder has 16 stitches (this one has 13). (Interesting - my theory about more stitches in the front shoulder to provide ease doesn't hold up).
I think it is quite important to sew the shoulder sleeves and the armscye seams to give structure to the cardigan. I am going to knit the sleeves flat (although both at the same time, too dangerous to enter second sleeve territory, I have a family event on 5th August) and set them into the armscye. On the perfect cardigan (which will be plain stocking stitch becuse I want to knit quickly and I'm more concerned about structure), I may try picking up the stitches and knitting outwards (but flat, not in the round). We'll see.
We must have our dreams and meanderings 😍
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