Alpaca-Tencel tshirt
Finished
January 15, 2013
February 20, 2013

Alpaca-Tencel tshirt

Project info
Knitting
Needles & yarn
US 6 - 4.0 mm
US 4 - 3.5 mm
1,748 yards
Misti Alpaca Lace Canada
none left in stash
2 skeins = 874.0 yards (799.2 meters), 100 grams
natural Tencel laceweight
Lace
2 skeins = 874.0 yards (799.2 meters)
dyed orange with Rit
Notes

Frogged and restarted.

Cast on 1/20/40/20/1 on provisional caston. I did a bunch of extra provisional stitches and am knitting into them every time I increase on the front. That way the front of the neck will be more even when I pick up the stitches to do the neck, but I don’t have to do a circular caston, i.e. I don’t have to figure out exactly the right number of stitches for the front ahead of time and then do short rows; I can just do a normal raglan with a little help from the provisional stitches to make it look better.

Separated at 56/76, added 2 caston stitches under the arms just in case.

Must remember to switch to the dyed sockweight wool for the neck and the hem and sleeve edges.

If I do this combo yarn again, do it on 4s. It won’t be opaque but this is too much like netting. I was paranoid about having enough yarn so I guess I’ll find out how much of the wool I use.

Sleeves, picked up an extra 6 on each side, on size 4s, two rows then switched to ribbing, down to 56 st. 10 rows or so of ribbing.

Probably want to do more ribbing at the hem.

I dyed tencel orange in ~100 yard sections to double with the orange Alpaca, plus a little fingering weight wool off a cone just in case I needed extra that could go alone.

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WEAR:
dark jeans
gray?
i guess brown….
dark green

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Finished
January 15, 2013
February 20, 2013
About this pattern
Personal pattern (not in Ravelry)
About this yarn
by Misti Alpaca
Lace
100% Alpaca
437 yards / 50 grams

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  • Project created: December 26, 2012
  • Finished: February 20, 2013
  • Updated: March 18, 2014
  • Progress updates: 6 updates