The Try-Works by Ann Weaver

The Try-Works

Knitting
October 2011
Worsted (9 wpi) ?
16 stitches and 24 rows = 4 inches
in Stockinette stitch
US 9 - 5.5 mm
1150 - 2075 yards (1052 - 1897 m)
32 to 52 inch bust
English
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ERRATA from very early versions: Under Body, step 2, last row should end k1, p4, sm, k4

“Like a plethoric burning martyr, or a self-consuming misanthrope, once ignited, the whale supplies his own fuel and burns by his own body.”
Moby-Dick, “The Try-Works”

A tailored, cabled cardigan, with cabled motifs based on the curling smoke of the try-works, the apparatus on the whale ship that renders the whale’s blubber into oil.

The body of this cardigan is worked in one piece to the underarms, then divided for fronts and back. The sleeves are worked in the round from the cuff to the underarm, at which point the sleeve cap is worked flat.