FO: Angle
angle, baby
I love interesting garment construction. When I saw Angle, a modular baby sweater designed by Tora Frøseth (k n i t t i n g a l o t), I knew I had to make it [ravel it].
button detail
One of my cousins and his wife just had a little girl. I knit this for her in Sublime Soya Cotton DK. The yarn is soft and smooth and cool — and washable! It is splitty and 4 of the 5 50g balls had 3 or 4 knots in them! This lead to a lot of ends to weave in.
Tora recommended a lightweight wool yarn for this sweater but I used the much heavier Soya Cotton, knowing it was going to change the sweater quite a bit. I think it will be easier for the new parents to deal with, however.
Miscellaneous Details [ravelry]
- I only used two colors, MC and CC1.
- I used the crochet provisional cast on.
- I had gauge issues (MY fault, not pattern) and had to adjust the pattern and cut the sleeves so they were not so wide. this was in part because I used the easy-care cotton-soy yarn which is a lot heavier and more drapey than the pattern-specified lightweight wool.
- I worked the garter stitch edgings on US3 needles
- There were a lot of ends, in part because the soya cotton has a lot of knots in each ball.
- I wish I had slipped the first stitch of each row to make picking up stitches for the edging a bit more neat.
- instead of kitchenering the top of the sleeves, I worked a three needle bind off. I love kitchener but this yarn was so slippery that it was not coming out right. The 3NB looks fine, even though it is definitely more bulky than kitchener.
- I worked a plain old bindoff instead of the sewn bind off.
Overall: cute!
Super cute and super unique! Luv it!! And qued it ;)
It is beautiful. I had to add this to a long list of knits to make.
Hi, Jess,
I read your comments about how you make the February Baby Sweater seamless on another blog and I have a question about numbers. I’m assuming that what you do initially is knit 25 stitches (as directed in the pattern) take 28 stitches off and put them on a holder cast on 28 stitches (to maintain the width of the body), knit across to the last 43 stitches, cast on 28 stitches, put 28 stitches on a holder, cast on 28 stitches and knit the last 25 stitches. After that you would simply stay in pattern and finish the body of the sweater. Now when you go back to do the sleeves, you’ve got 28 stitches on the holder, but the gap is is also 28 stitches wide (or at least I think it is – I’m trying to visualize this in my head and that’s not my strongest suit). So how many stitches do you pick up at the armhole? Do you pick up 14 (which would give you the 42 called for in the pattern)? Or do you pick up 28?
I really would prefer to do this sweater seamlessly, but the whole number at the sleeves thing is perplexing me. I don’t ordinarily knit top down sweaters, and when I have they’ve usually been raglan sleeves. I know this should work somehow, but maybe I’ve got the whole setup wrong. I’d appreciate your input.
I honestly can’t figure out how EZ could do this on two needles in the first place because once you get past the first sleeve you’ve got stitches before the sleeve still on one needle (even with the short rowing, yet you need to get to the sleeve stitches on the other side somehow, yet with straight needles the other stitches have a knob preventing you from getting to them and with a circular needle they are not accessible either if you used both needles of the circular needle to work the sleeve. Your method (if I can just get the numbers right) seems much more straight forward.
thank you for sharing your thoughts on that! Yours looks gorgeous! I really like the colors you used!
absolutely stunning.