{"id":155,"date":"2009-12-28T11:17:49","date_gmt":"2009-12-28T11:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/?p=155"},"modified":"2015-08-08T11:19:04","modified_gmt":"2015-08-08T11:19:04","slug":"triplel-tweed-sweater-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/2009\/12\/28\/triplel-tweed-sweater-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"TripleL Tweed Sweater (2009)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"Triple<\/a><\/span><\/td>\nPattern:<\/span>\u00a0 My own creation!\u00a0 See notes, below.<\/span><\/span>
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\nYarn:<\/span>\u00a0 Rowan Cocoon<\/span>, (approx 1,500m all told)
\nMethod:\u00a0<\/span> Hybrid machine & hand knitting
\nCompleted:<\/span>\u00a0 December 28 2009.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

This sweater was designed and knit in components.\u00a0 I machine knit the main parts of back, front & sleeves (see pic below) on my SK890 chunky machine (with ribber).\u00a0 I assembled the pieces, and then hand knit the yoke up to the neck, raglan style. \u00a0 The yoke is Barbara Walker’s\u00a0 Triple L Tweed stitch, which, apart from being a nice way to mix the related colours, also gives the fabric some sturdiness over the shoulders.\u00a0 I figured the raglan shaping could get ugly as different bits of the tweed patterning ran into each other (and I could not figure out how to work the raglan decreases into the patterning, seamlessly), so I ran 4 separate bobbins of main colour to do the raglan stitches.\u00a0 I assume they will get tidier when they are washed\/settle in.<\/p>\n

I will say I was a bit disappointed in the yarn — it seems unable to support its own weight so the whole sweater is stretching as it’s worn.\u00a0 I did miscalculate the length of the main body part (because I forgot to subtract for the ribbing), but beyond that, it’s trending towards longer (and narrower) than anticipated in my test swatching.\u00a0 The yarn is the same composition (80% merino, 20% mohair) as Green Mountain Spinnery’s Mountain Mohair.<\/span>\u00a0 While this is softer feeling than the Mountain Mohair<\/span>, I’d use the latter over this for future projects, because it knows how to hold its own.<\/p>\n

Final dimensions:\u00a0 Shoulder top to hem:\u00a0 31″ (was about 28″ when knitting finished, but the whole sweater is stretching); Under sleeve seam, underarm to bottom of cuff:\u00a0 20″; Width at chest:\u00a0 23 1\/2″ (47″ around).<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
\"back<\/a><\/span><\/td>\nBack yoke — note the separately-coloured raglan shaping stitches<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"whole<\/a><\/span>\"yoke<\/a>\"bottom<\/a><\/td>\nLaid out flat — whole sweater, yoke detail (and neckline shaping), and bottom cuff.You can barely see the distinction between brown and wine — poor colour value choices on my part<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"neck<\/a><\/span>\"cuff<\/a><\/span><\/td>\nDetail of the shoulder\/sleeve cap and neckline; detail of the cuff — you can see the brown\/wine distinction slightly better<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"blocking<\/a><\/td>\nI knit the back, front and sleeves from the bottom (ribbed cuff) up to the yoke, on my SK890 knitting machine with ribber.\u00a0 I knit them off onto waste yarn, blocked them, and picked up the stitches for the yoke.\u00a0 I wound up seaming the body & sleeves, because it was too awkward to have so many pieces flying around while working on the yoke.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Pattern:\u00a0 My own creation!\u00a0 See notes, below. Yarn:\u00a0 Rowan Cocoon, (approx 1,500m all told) Method:\u00a0 Hybrid machine & hand knitting Completed:\u00a0 December 28 2009. This sweater was designed and knit in components.\u00a0 I machine knit the main parts of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-knitting","category-machine-knitting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/TripleL-WholeOutside-thmb.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7fEfz-2v","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158,"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions\/158"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}