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The Sweater is knit in just a few basic steps:
1) Knit body tube.
2) Knit sleeve tubes.
3) Join sleeves to body.
4) Knit yoke.
5) Cast off.
Materials:
Yarn
I used: Rowan Donegal Lambswool DK, about 10 hanks in as many colors as you'd like to stripe.
Substitute: Any DK - weight yarn. This is much more fine that worsted, and is generally
knit on needles from size 2-5 or 6 (US).
Needles
I used: Two 24 " circular needles, US size 2. I knit the sleeves on two circulars, and was able
to fit the whole body on one.
You'll use: Whichever needles give you the appropriate gauge.
Gauge
7 stitches to the inch in stocking stitch.
Knitting The Body
1. Gauge swatch... see how many stitches you get per inch, multiply that mumber by how big around you want the sweater
to be. I got 7 sts/inch, and I wanted it to be 40 inches around, so I cast on 280 stitches.
2. On circular needles, cast on this number let's go with my 280) and join. Knit a tube, randomly striping as you
go. Measure how long you want your sweater to be. I don't use a tape measure here, just hold it up to my body and see if it
hits my hips at the right spot.
3. Once the tube is long enough, set it aside for later.
Cast on for sleeves. (make two!)
1. Using your gauge swatch, determine how many stitches you need for the sleeve to comfortably fit your arm. I
used 75 stitches. On DPN or two circs. or one circ. (for Magic Loop method) cast on 75 stitches, join into tube, and
knit for as long as it is from your armpit to your elbow.
2. Decreasing to taper the sleeves. I decreased two stitches every 4 rounds until I flt that the sleeve
opening was as narrow as I wanted it to be. Then knit to end of sleeve.
3. Picot cast-off. To cast off in picot edging, cast off two stitches, knit three stitches into the next stitch,
then cast off five. This adding of extra stitches makes a little bobble along the cuff edge.
Joining the sleeves
1. Get sleeves ready So. Now you have a body tube and two sleeve tubes. Pick out the cast on edges of the sleeves,
and put the sleeves onto a spare circular needle....you can do this one at a time. (This is probably not the most graceful
method, but I don't know how to do any provisonal cast ons, so this is how I do it.)
2. Divide body stitches for front and back. Look at your body tube and divide the stitches evenly for front
and back. (140 and 140) Find the center of the first sleeve. This is where you did the decreases, so they'll all end up on
the underside of the sleeve. Put the center 10 stitches on a spare piece of yarn or onto a stitch holder.
3. Underarms. Put 10 stitches from the body tube onto a stitch holder. These ten from the body and ten from the
sleeve will later be knit together using the three-needle bind-off, and will be the underarm seam.
4. Knitting the sleeves to the body. Join yarn to the knitting on the right-hand needle of the body tube. Using
the needles in the body tube, knit around the sleeve. This adds the sleeve stitches to the body stitches. Now continue knitting
around the body for 130 stitches. Plase ten stitches from the body and ten from the sleeve onto spare yarns, and join as you
did for the first sleeve.
Yoke
1. Knit for about 4.75 inches.
2. First decrease round: knit 2, knit 2 together all the way around.
3. Knit for about 2.5 inches.
4. Second decrease round: Knit 1, knit 2 together all the way around.
5. Knit for about 2.5 inches.
6. Third decrease round: Knit 2, knit 2 together all the way around.
7. Knit for another inch or so and cast off in picot edging.
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