When I was at the Goodwill picking up a sweater to make into swants, I found an amazing fair isle sweater. I wish I had taken a picture of it; it was a big, boxy 80's drop shoulder number made of some sort of hearty nordic wool.
But it was a giant men's sweater.
So I ripped it apart and am attempting to change it into a set-in sleeve sweater that will fit me (this is a really good description of the different kinds of shoulders, if you care). The sweater was serged/overlocked together at the edges, so I just cut away the side seems.
Because it was a drop-sleeve sweater (and I have giant ape arms), I need to add a lot of length to the sleeves. I happened to have some yarn that matches the yellow and white yarn already in the sweater. I picked up the stitches where the sleeves were serged to the body of the sweater. Now I am knitting until they are long enough, adding the proper shaping in as I go.
I also had to change the body of the sweater from a big rectangle into a set-in shape. I mapped out the middle of the sweater and then how wide I wanted the shoulders and waist to be (in the neon thread you see) based on my measurements.
Then I cut the sleeve holes. Cutting knitting is nerve-wracking, but the yarn is sticky enough that it doesn't unravel too much.
I left the original collar. So now I just have to finish knitting the sleeves and then sew it all together on the sewing machine.
But it was a giant men's sweater.
So I ripped it apart and am attempting to change it into a set-in sleeve sweater that will fit me (this is a really good description of the different kinds of shoulders, if you care). The sweater was serged/overlocked together at the edges, so I just cut away the side seems.
Because it was a drop-sleeve sweater (and I have giant ape arms), I need to add a lot of length to the sleeves. I happened to have some yarn that matches the yellow and white yarn already in the sweater. I picked up the stitches where the sleeves were serged to the body of the sweater. Now I am knitting until they are long enough, adding the proper shaping in as I go.
I also had to change the body of the sweater from a big rectangle into a set-in shape. I mapped out the middle of the sweater and then how wide I wanted the shoulders and waist to be (in the neon thread you see) based on my measurements.
Then I cut the sleeve holes. Cutting knitting is nerve-wracking, but the yarn is sticky enough that it doesn't unravel too much.
I left the original collar. So now I just have to finish knitting the sleeves and then sew it all together on the sewing machine.
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