1940’s style for you has made up several versions of this jumper, pictures here.
Tension:
When knitted in the round the tension ended up on 8 sts per inch. When I tightened up the tension while knitting flat I managed to achieve more or less the same tension. The yarn is finer than Drops Karisma, and actually knits up to more or less the same tension as the original, which is confusing as this is nowhere near a vintage 3-ply weight.
I’m not sure what to think about this yarn. It’s soft, elastic and smooth, a combination that makes it hard to keep an even tension. I’ve had the recurrence of an old problem of mine that I’ve not had for years. Somehow the last few stitches in plain rounds becomes too loose, and because of that that edge gets too loose and ends up longer than the other. Very annoying. I’ve had to switch to English style knitting for the last 5 sts and slip the last one instead of knitting it. I knit it next round instead. Reversed from how I usually do it. It helps but there’s still a tiny bit of difference.
Knitting in the round:
Cast on 240 sts
Rib for 4 inches
Increase every 7th row until there are 280 sts
Cast off 7 sts each side, then cast off 2, then 1 until 114 sts for yoke remains - 14 inches.
Sleeves and cuffs:
Adding 8 sts
Sleeves
Cast on 62 sts, knit in pattern for 3 inches, then increase every 6th row 21 times.
Do decreases until there are 34 sts left on needle, cast off.
Yoke frills: Cast on 114 sts
Shoulder frills: Cast on 120 sts
24.02.2016
On the 6th pattern line when you move the slip stitch 3 stitches to the right it’s important to tighten the yarn snugly before knitting the following 3 stitches. The jumper fits well measuring in at 36 inch bust which gives 2 inches of negative ease, I don’t think it could have been much wider and still looked good.
03.03.2016
Finished the torso yesterday :) I’m amazed at how this jumper seems to eat yarn. I’ve had to get 2 more skeins. I’ve tried it on and it’s so very flattering! I know Lucy at 1940’s Style for You has knitted up quite a few jumpers from this pattern, and I can see why :)
It has a back slit and originally called for buttons. I decided to go with snap closure as snaps would be more discreet. The jumper has so much going for it that I felt decorative buttons would be overkill.
Finished the cuffs and cuff frills, very pretty :)
06.03.2016
Don’t know why I hate knitting sleeves. Maybe it’s because I somehow feel it should be quicker than knitting the torso, when in fact for long sleeves, it’s usually a longer knit. Oh well.
Normally at this stage I take a break from the project to make something small and quick, but now I don’t have anything lined up, so that’s not really an option. And I keep getting distracted with thoughts of lace jumpers for spring. Not that spring has arrived, the snow is coming down like nobody’s business. Sigh… Sometimes I just don’t understand why we left Ireland to go live in Lillehammer.
25.03.2016
A quick word on stitching the ruffles in place. For the front and back this is easy enough, as there are the same amount of cast on stitches on the ruffles as on the back/front. I cast on using two lengths of thread which gives a crochet chain look foundation. I whip-stitched the ruffles in place and it looks really nice and professional.
I thought the shoulder ruffles would have to be longer than the original because I added 1/2 inch to the yoke length so I cast on 130 sts. In the end I had to cut of the surplus, some 10 stitches. So 120 sts is plenty for the shoulders!
I had 104 rows for the yoke back and front (52 rows of yoke before shoulder shapings) to anchor the ruffles to, so I had to make allowances for that. The tricky bit is that when you pick up stitches along the shoulder seams you pull out yarn, and the stitch above the one you just picked up seems to get smaller and is easy to overlook, so you might end up skipping every other row.
26.03.2016
Stitched the final ruffle in place today, just have to fasten a zillion threads and I’m done :D
Done! The colours are darker in real life. This was the best I could do with my rubbish mobile camera.
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