This week, I chat with the owner of a new local yarn shop in Fort Wayne and share another version of my Tertian sweater. This is a slightly math-heavy show, so bear with me.
I used a yarn called Willow by Brooks Farm, a 70/30 Blend of Super Wash Wool and Bamboo. This is an incredibly luscious yarn! It has a springy texture with a lot of loft, but the bamboo keeps it from being too warm.
In re-knitting this, I found some pretty bad mistakes in the original pattern. I went back and corrected it, so anything you download from our website now should be ok. Let me know if I made any other errors and I will go back and fix it again. I feel a little as though I've been going around with spinach in my teeth since May 1. Thank you, everyone, for being patient with me.
For the sleeves, I wanted a slight flare, and this is what I did:
Total length of sleeve, without lace edge:
7.5 rows/inch x 10 inches = 75 rows
Amount to decrease for sleeve:
12.5" - 14" = (1.5)" * G = (7.125). It's a negative number because I'm increasing.
It's normal to take stitches by increasing or decreasing in sets of 2. So, I took my result and divided by 2 to get 3 sets of increases. Instead of doing it evenly down the sleeve, I bunched them all at the end. Also, I added one extra increase, to get closer to 7.
That means that I wanted 1 + 2 (3) increases.
Which gives me 4 increase rounds with non-increase rounds in-between => 8 rounds total for this step.
75 rows – 8 for the increase section = 67.
Thus, I worked 67 rounds straight from the shoulder, then:
K30, yo, k30.
Knit all stitches.
K 30, yo, k1, yo, k30.
Knit all stitches.
K 30, yo, k3, yo, k30.
Knit all stitches.
K 30, yo, k5, yo, k30.
Knit all stitches. – except for one thing. I still need to make sure that everything is divisible by 6, for my lace pattern.
Check the totals:
60 + 1 + 2*3 = 67
It needs to be 66. On that last row, I worked k2t on the last two stitches to bring everything into line.
And, yes, these are the actual notes that I write to myself when I'm working on something like this. I am fun, fun, fun to be around when I'm muttering things like, "Wait, is this still divisible by 6?" and "Did I divide by 2?"
If your result is not quite so neat and tidy, write it all out on a piece of paper, play around with solutions, round up or round down, or, contact me on Ravelry and I'll help you. My username is math4knitters.
Chat
I loved chatting with Allison Van Zandt in her new shop, Simply Socks Yarn Company. The grand opening is set for Saturday, August 20, 2011.
Links
Free Pattern using Simply Sock Yarn: Flock Socks
Simply Socks Yarn Company:
Book: Sock Knitting Master Class by Ann Budd
Also on Facebook: The bakery I mentioned, Yum-Mee's Bakery.
