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Pix:Various Knitting Projects:Sweaters and Other Miscellany
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Steggie and Steggie Junior
For Jake. The zipper was less of a pain than I expected. My sewing skills are kind of terrible, but sewing *to* knitting is easy.
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Pink Pepper
For Margaret. Seed stitch is really slow going - I'm pretty fast at knit, and not too slow at purl, but alternating between them (ribbing is also really slow) is very tedious. But it came out very cute.
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Pikkuveli
This is an interestingly eccentric pattern. I like the colored hems, and the sleeves are about as odd as they get. Fun to make, and the buttons are gorgeous.
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Scaled Up War Flowers
This is my attempt to make a Maile sweater (written for an infant) for a 1-year-old. We'll see how it fits. As it turns out, a larger sweater uses more yarn than a small one in a non-linear fashion, so I miscalculated whether or not a single skein would be enough. And the yarn turns out to be really obscure and hard to find. The yoke is in the same yarn, the same colorway, but a different dye lot, as given to me by a lovely helpful person from Ravelry. The collar is in the same yarn that the original Maile sweater was made from. It nearly looks intentional.
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"Purpa Lavenda"
(The pattern name is "Lavenda", it's my own silly joke). This is for Susan. I am unsure about the pockets - they seem to me to make the front very heavy, which might not be good. On the other hand, pockets!
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"Coffee Bean" in handspun and rust-colored merino
For Elizabeth's littlest
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Mini sweater
For Mike's nephew
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Mini sweater, heretical back
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Little Stripes
This uses the same orange as the Orange Hoodie, but the combination with the porcelain makes it look much more mahogany-wood-brown colored to me. Interesting color effects.
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No Black Sheep
Another Mike sweater. This one is made with a combination of yak and alpaca, so no "sheep". It's silky and light and should be pretty warm.
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From a distance
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Orange Hoodie
Okay, this is the last of them; this one is for Aedlin for Christmas.
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Brown Hoodie.
There are a multitude of minor flaws with this sweater, but it's still cool looking
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Brown Hoodie, with Wearer
And it kind of looks like a jedi robe, if you squint and have props.
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Grey Wall Street Cables "Vest"
Eon picked a particular vest pattern "but with sleeves". It's been a long time since I built a sweater from the Sweater Design book, but I think the sleeve caps turned out pretty well.
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War Flowers
I've been calling these this somewhat inexplicable name because the pattern is "Maile" (a flowering vine you wear as a garland in Hawaii) and the yarn is "Warroad" (after a town in northern Minnesota). It does make it sound rather fierce and bloodthirsty for a baby sweater, but it's still an amusing name.
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Red Riding Hood
For Madelyn's first birthday, a project completed in not nearly enough time
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Mulberry Valentine
Interesting pattern, but I am slightly dubious about bits of it.
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Purple Pinstripes
For Aedlin, my newest niece - same pattern as the blue stripes for Duncan.
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String Bag
I am a bit happier with this one than the previously made mesh bag - this is crochet rather than knit, and is done in the round. It has a fun trick of tucking itself into the circular bottom, which also serves as a mini-bag, but I'm not sure that's actually necessary. For me, to carry in my laptop bag for when I stop by the grocery on the way home from work.
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Christmas Miters
Wildfoote sock yarn - the red is really nice in the sun, and dull in flourescent light. It's not as soft as some yarn, but it's supposed to both wear and machine wash really well.
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Red Rhapsody
Another Mike Cabled Sweater, this one in Rowan Cocoon. The pattern (Rhapsody in Tweed) is for something slightly less bulky, so there was some adjustment needed. I really like the feel of the yarn.
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Rhapsody Cables
(The finished photo doesn't show the cables, or the soft halo of the yarn, very well, because of the flash; here they're more clear.)
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Blue Pinstripes
(for Elizabeth's new boy). A change from my usual February Sweater Variant for babies.
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More bunnies
(For Amelia and Isabelle)
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February II
A sweater for the Rose-and-Brian-ling. My modified sock yarn February Baby Sweater appears to need slightly more than one skein of Sundara sock; perhaps I should stick with the Malabrigo, which is softer anyway but less pretty colors. Interesting pooling on the arms.
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Kind of February Sweater
Same basic model, different stitch pattern (Herringbone Rib).
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Steeplechase Vest (flash)
This shows the color more accurately. I am somewhat disappointed with the minor color variation between skeins of the same dye lot.
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Steeplechase Vest (no flash)
This shows the texture more clearly. Blocking did open up the lace nicely.
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February Sweater
One of the Elizabeth Zimmerman classics, knitted all in one piece, except for a crochet button bit. The color is somewhere between red and brown (redder than the picture shows)
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Corsica, Blocked
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Blocked
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Corsica, Felted
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Felted
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Baby Surprise (for Elizabeth & Warren's baby)
This was made a little while ago, in time for the first attempt at a shower, and back when the sex was more definitely female.
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Grey Sweater of Doom
Done, finally!
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Mike brandishes the sweater.
This is a really heavy sweater. His arms are going to get tired soon!
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Mike models the sweater
You can see the resemblance to the pink Fulmar, but they're different cables.
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Fulmar
Another massive cably sweater in Louet Gems. This is the original pattern.
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Three Ends!
Something is wrong with this picture. And that's not even counting the center-pull end, that I haven't pulled out yet.
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First Cuff
After some experimentation, I'm pleased with how this looks. The grey isn't the same, but it's not objectionable. I've used two strands (it felt too thin with just one), and used some of the unraveled original cuff to put in the alternating stitches at the beginning. Just knitting it up in grey was too sharp of a transition, especially since all the other color transitions are zig-zaggy.
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Mesh Bag
This is not my favorite of items, but it's workable, and it knitted up darned fast. It suffers a little bit from "donkey ears" (that is, drooping corners), but it's quite stretchable and the corners tuck in when there's something in the bag. (For Meg).
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The Trend Continues
This one isn't even for Amelia, it's for Donna! I'm pleased with how the sleeves on this one worked out. It's got the thing I call a "barred fake-cable" on the front, which is a little hard to make out.
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Grey Cables
This was originally for Mike, but came out a little too small. Thus Andrea gets it. It's a duplicate of a grey sweater that Elizabeth has, so someday there will be three! I personally find knitted popcorns somewhat weird, but I did eventually get better at them.
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White Cotton
(Jess) I made a second one in the same yarn but a different color, and it came out totally differently. This one is getting shorter as it's washed; the ecru cotton version is supposedly getting longer with each wash. !
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Enormous Wool Sweater
(Jess) This one is really large because it was based on a sketch Jess made. The sketch really *looked* like a tiny stick figure in an enormous sweater, but I hear that that was artistic license.
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Red Cably Sweater
(Jess) This one actually looks a good bit like...
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Blue Cably Sweater
...this one. At least, the travelling stitch zigzags are kind of similar. (Mike)
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Snowy Sweater
(Jess) This is one of the first sweaters I made, and had some serious issues with gauge. It's more of a sweater-dress.
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Blue Cably Sweater
(Jess) Another one with similarities to a...
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Black Cably Sweater
...subsequent Mike sweater.
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Red Cotton
(Mike) And hey, this looks like the White Cotton one, too.
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Escher Lizards
(Mike) I made this pattern! Using real math and everything, to make the lizards scale appropriately at the neck and over the arms. Unfortunately, once designed, the size can only be changed by changing the needle size. So the Mike version is a little large, and the Mom version (not pictured here) is a little small. Oh well.
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White Cables
(Mike) I think this pattern was designed for a heavier yarn than was used; it's not obvious from the picture, but the knit fabric is a little loose.
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Grey Foofy Sweater
(Mike) I wanted to make something in a brioche stitch, just to see how it worked up. It's a black/green stranded wool, and a little boring, but comfy. Oddly, there's a button on the collar; I'm not sure what the point of that was.
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Noru Stripe
(Mike) Another one of those sweaters where I wanted to try something. I like the Noru space-dyed yarns, but using them for a whole sweater can be overkill. I think the stripey effect worked well.
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Vest
Vest for Kate. I really like this pattern; it's nicely tailored and lets you do a lot with different colors. I made one for Donna around the same time.
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