KauniKAL

The wrong size

It's been wonderful seeing everyone's sweaters grow and to share this experience with you all.  Everyone's put in so much work, even if some are the wrong size in the end, they all look amazing!

Mine is one of the sweaters that turned out too big in the end.  It's not the sweater's fault.  In the few months it took to knit this sweater, I went from a size 14 to a size 6 (through no fault or intention of my own), so when I put the sweater on, after what seemed a long, long time of knitting it, it just sort of hung there in an "I'm way too big for you" kind of way.  It was especially gaping at the neck and around the shoulders. 

So I took it to my spinning group for advice (and to show it off, after all, it is an amazing design).  They suggested that I do this simple kind of sewing stitch to help take up the slack around the neck and maybe even sew in a bit of bias tape to make the shoulders sag a little bit less.  Both good ideas, only I don't know how to sew.  I managed to re-block the sweater into a more appropriate shape and size (thank goodness for blocking, it's surprisingly useful), but I think I will have to learn how to do their recommendations.  I'm also tempted to felt/full the upper part of the sweater to make it a little bit smaller.

Any thoughts?

Trampled by Geese

Almost ready for the neckline!

Hi Everyone,

It's been really quiet in here, guess everyone must be finished with their sweaters!  If there's anyone else out there working on theirs please let me know as I am about to be at the point of working on the neckline.  Scary!    Maybe it is my inexperience with knitting sweaters but the original directions seem to be hard for me to understand.  If anyone has a good "layman's instructions" I would greatly appreciate it.

So exciting though to see the sweater grow, I like the color changes I have and am about to start my second balls of yarn (from the Kauni prewound balls).  I had to wind off a little bit in order to start at the same color point but can add this back on the tail end so to speak.   Here's a picture of my sweater last Friday, I added a few more blocks of squares over the weekend: