Mom's Christmas Sweater
Finished
September 17, 2009
December 12, 2010

Mom's Christmas Sweater

Project info
February Lady Sweater by pamela wynne
Knitting
SweaterCardigan
Mom
Needles & yarn
US 8 - 5.0 mm
US 7 - 4.5 mm
Dream in Color Classy
1000 yards in stash
VM470
Blue-purple
MisKnits in Kansas City, Missouri
September 16, 2009
Notes

4/6/2010 - Casting on for the 3rd time.

12/17/2010 - Realized that I forgot to do decreases on garter part of second sleeve that I did on first sleeve. Not finished yet!?! Will tink back and redo garter section to make sleeves match.

Changes to sleeves to make them less swingy (for 3/4 sleeves). Did 11 repeats of lace pattern after picked up underarm stitches for total of 12 lace repeats (one repeat done before separating arm stitches. Then reduced needle size to a US 7 and knit 5 more lace repeats for total of 17. Began garter stitch. One third row of garter stitch, did knit 7 k2tog to decrease by 7 stitches. Resulting end of sleeve much less bell-shaped than previous attempt.

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September 17, 2009
December 12, 2010
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by Dream in Color
Worsted
100% Merino
250 yards / 113 grams

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  • Originally queued: April 4, 2009
  • Project created: September 23, 2009
  • Finished: December 13, 2010
  • Updated: February 16, 2011
  • Progress updates: 11 updates