KauniKAL

Ta Da!!

Drum roll, please......  It's done!  What a terrific sweater!I I have pictures posted on my Ravelry account under Rischknitter.  Thanks to all of you for posting and commenting on the different techniques used in the sweater's construction.  I made several modifications to suit my tastes, and I got a lot of the ideas from you. 

I did Elizabeth Zimmerman's picked up hem facing on the bottom, and did the striped garter stitch bands everywhere else. 

I did a three-needle bind off on the shoulders of the body, and luckily it occurred right in the middle of the squares, so it looks great over the shoulder line.

I did not pick up the sleeve stitches, but Siamese steeked the sleeves together, knit from the shoulder to the cuff, bound off the steek stitches, and then knit flat the garter stitch cuffs individually. Consequently, the rate of color change more closely resembles that of the body.  There was just more seaming involved.

Again, thanks to all of you for your ideas and free exchange of design elements.  Let's do something again!

 

So Close

Tonight I sewed in my sleeves and tacked down most of the steek edges.  My problem is . . . the Kauni is too small.  I made the medium, thinking that 44 inches would be plenty of ease, but no such luck.  I will be able to fit into this, and it hangs nicely if I don't try to close the front, but now I'm stuck.  I'm afraid that if I use buttons, I'll get gaps between the buttons which is always unsightly.  I can't knit four inches of button bands, as much as I'd like to.  I'm considering using a zipper instead of buttons, but that seems wrong.  Any suggestions?  I had a button band, but I ripped it out because it was pulling the fabric too tightly.