I've been faithfully working on my WIPs and have really enjoyed knitting my Mothed Pullover. When I finished knitting the body portion, I breathed a sigh of relief as the sizing looked great. I put the live arm hole stitches back on my needle to begin knitting the sleeves and after the first round, I saw this!
I was not happy. This happens to me sometimes -- I choose a pattern, knit happily along, but then come across an issue that isn't addressed in the instructions. I wish all designers would include little hints and tips that would help make the FO more polished, but I suppose I'll know these little tips myself as I gain more experience.
Luckily, I came across this great tutorial for the exact problem I was having. I'm a follower of Stacey's and love how clear and simple her video tutorials are.
After one viewing, I was able to frog back and close that gap! Simple, clear, to the point.
The pullover is designed to have long sleeves; in fact, the mothed part of the pullover's design is in the sleeves, but as I knitted this during the spring, I decided to keep the sleeves short. A happy FO, indeed!
It looks great!
ReplyDeleteVery nicely done!
ReplyDeleteIt happens with me too, I frog back and knit again, no problems.
ReplyDeleteWe can learn more and more with this little problems, can't we?
And the sweater is very beatiful!
Very nice! Does Miranda get to keep it?
ReplyDeleteGorgeous sweater, it looks fab.
ReplyDeleteDoesn't Staci [VeryPink.com] have the best video tutorials ! !
ReplyDeleteThis is a perfect for your very lovely model! ! !
Just lucious, Evelyn.
Ah it looks perfect, simply perfect! I love the purple. It also looks like it was a blast to knit up too. Also, thank you, thank you for that video. I've run into a similar problem before with the holes, but never quite figured out a better solution.
ReplyDeleteI absolutely love this pullover. The color is perfect and the fit is as well. I am adding that to my list of sweaters I love that I'll probably never make. But anyways, this is gorgeous!
ReplyDeleteThe pullover is lovely! It looks wonderful on your daughter. Great job finding a solution to the gap problem (which is a very common one with top down sweaters).
ReplyDeleteThe sweater looks fantastic. I love the short sleeves. And what a great video too :)
ReplyDeleteBeautiful knitting Evelyn!
ReplyDeleteVeryPink has a great tutorial on socks; it's because of her that I realized I was knitting backwards = fumbling on Susan's Jelly Bean sock pattern.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was working on my Sequoia cardi it told me to pick up so many sts for the underarm area. It felt in places I needed more but an experienced knitter that picking up more could make the underarm hang more than I want. So she gave me a great tip to pick up yarn through two sts together so I would still have four picked up ones in the end.
I love the short arms on your Mothed Pullover. It came out very nicely.
Congratulations! It looks great! You were very conscientious frogging back. Normally, I simply mattress stitch or graft the gap together afterwards. ;-)
ReplyDeleteIt looks great, and good save on the gap! I think it's really hard to cover off all the potential things that might cause a problem with a knit, but thank goodness for the internet- I love being able to google a how to video at a moment's notice, it's really upped my knitting game.
ReplyDeleteI had the same problem, and found the same solution, and wondered why the designer hadn't included this instruction -- or even simply mentioned that there would be such a problem that needed to be solved somehow, as I'm sure there are other solutions -- in the pattern instructions. I know it's impossible for a designer to cover every potential issue, but this seems like a nearly inevitable issue for a raglan, so why not at least mention it?
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