Soldotna Sweater
Finished
September 5, 2022
September 29, 2022

Soldotna Sweater

Project info
Soldotna Crop by Caitlin Hunter
Knitting
SweaterPullover
Me (37-30-40 at bindoff)
3
Needles & yarn
US 4 - 3.5 mm
US 5 - 3.75 mm
999 yards
madelinetosh DK Twist
20 yards in stash
0.11 skeins = 27.5 yards (25.1 meters), 11 grams
Blue
Madelinetosh
September 3, 2017
madelinetosh Tosh DK
173 yards in stash
2.23 skeins = 501.8 yards (458.8 meters)
Pink
WhitKnits
March 15, 2018
madelinetosh Tosh DK
88 yards in stash
0.61 skeins = 137.3 yards (125.5 meters)
Yellow
Madelinetosh
October 8, 2021
madelinetosh Tosh DK
117 yards in stash
0.48 skeins = 108.0 yards (98.8 meters)
White
Madelinetosh
October 8, 2021
madelinetosh Tosh DK
none left in stash
1 skein = 225.0 yards (205.7 meters)
Blue
Madelinetosh
October 8, 2021
Notes

I have never finished a sweater pattern so fast! Less than a month from swatch to ends woven. I am in love with it!!

I ordered a third skein of neon peach because I wanted to add long sleeves to this. When I received my third skein, it was so vastly different from the other two (way brighter and more saturated) that I was worried it would make the whole sweater look weird. Fortunately the two brighter skeins were enough to finish out the body and then the lightest most faded skein was used only on the sleeves, and I think I faded them into each other successfully. Sleeves ended up with a little of the brightest peach, then mostly the middle peach, and finishing with a few inches of the faded peach. I did the two sleeves at the same time to make sure they would mostly match. Doing all this while also doing the lice stitch colorwork got pretty messy!

I literally used every inch of Ceremony (dark blue) and added a little extra colorwork on the sleeves to incorporate and use up the rest of the Button Jar Blue (aqua).

I wove in all my ends the same day I finished, which might be a first!!

09-26-2022

Remaining after body:
24g brightest peach
~half of mid peach
all of faded peach
46g Ceremony

03-16-2023

I added my Paint mockups of the pattern with various color combinations. I’m so glad I did this before swatching to decide what I liked best! The addition of the fifth color (button jar blue) made a huge difference for me.

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September 29, 2022
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by madelinetosh
DK
100% Merino
228 yards / 112 grams

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by madelinetosh
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100% Merino
250 yards

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  • Originally queued: October 8, 2021
  • Project created: November 12, 2021
  • Finished: September 30, 2022
  • Updated: March 16, 2023
  • Progress updates: 2 updates