{"id":2297,"date":"2020-10-04T18:38:04","date_gmt":"2020-10-04T22:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/?p=2297"},"modified":"2020-11-21T18:44:38","modified_gmt":"2020-11-21T23:44:38","slug":"alpaca-fairisle-for-him-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/2020\/10\/04\/alpaca-fairisle-for-him-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Alpaca Fairisle for Him (2020)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Yarn<\/strong>:  Juniper Moon Farm Moonshine
Pattern<\/strong>: Invented by me, using some elements I admired from the Peace Sweater by Dale
Completed<\/strong>: October 4, 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I bought the yarn for this sweater in the Fall of 2018, and started playing with ideas almost immediately. Nonetheless, it wasn’t until two years later that I actually finished (and fixed and finished) the sweater!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I bought the yarn at Mother of Purl in Freeport, ME, when we were stopped there for a lunch break. So, I didn’t have a lot of time to consider the different colours or a specific plan. The downside is — there is very little value differentiation between the brown, green and blue. Only the silver stands out, at all. In the end, it’s not the end of the world — he prefers a “subtle” pattern, anyway \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My initial thoughts ran to doing small mitred squares in the different colours, but that proved too annoying to knit at scale. So, I turned to fairisle. I liked the look of the yoke of the Peace Sweater by Dale, but didn’t want to do exactly that. So, I borrowed the elements I liked (yoke, primarily), and mapped it onto a sweater plan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It turns out that the alpaca-mix yarn was not so fun to knit in two colours — perhaps because of the lack of “give” in the yarn? So, knitting it took a while, and it was left to languish for long stretches at a time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I finally finished it… It was instantly apparent that the neck opening was way too large. Not only would it have been too much exposure\/chilly, it was in danger of slipping off his shoulders. I know that feeling in a sweater, and I hate<\/em> it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That’s not the sort of thing you can go back and fix by ripping out — it was part of one of the first two pieces knit. I didn’t plan to disassemble the sweater, and rip and re-knit the front piece. Nor did I simply want to add rows to the collar — it would be too bulky in the back, and look silly. In the end, I did manage to sort it out by ripping the collar out, and knitting it again using short rows and tricks learned from turning a heel on socks. The front of the collar is much taller than the back, so it fits properly. And, you might not even notice it’s odd if I didn’t point out the whole story and include pictures of the original neckline \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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