![\"Box](\"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/KnitBot-Yarn-Gallery\/2014-BoxSweet\/IMG_5012-small.jpg\")
<\/a><\/td>\nShelridge Farm Soft Touch UltraMethod:\u00a0<\/span> Hand knit I bought this as a kit at Maryland Sheep & Wool 2012.\u00a0 Then, at MDS&W 2013, I bought some alternative colours for a couple of the ones that came in the kit.\u00a0 A fun knit!\u00a0 It’s modular — starting with the mitred squares and working the rest around it.\u00a0 I made the medium size, though the small might have been fine (the yarn relaxed in soaking).\u00a0 The sleeves got longer after soaking (which was good) but the sweater did not get longer.\u00a0 I would have liked another couple of inches in the body.\u00a0 I’d definitely knit this again, sometime.\u00a0 It would be fun to do it as a more serious study in value gradation.<\/p>\n Pattern:\u00a0 Box Sweet, by Candace Eisner Strick and Ann FeitelsonYarns: Shelridge Farm Soft Touch UltraMethod:\u00a0 Hand knit Completed:\u00a0 October 8, 2014. I bought this as a kit at Maryland Sheep & Wool 2012.\u00a0 Then, at MDS&W 2013, I bought<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":323,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-knitting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_5012-thumb.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7fEfz-5b","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321","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=321"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324,"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions\/324"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nCompleted:<\/span>\u00a0 October 8, 2014.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n
\n \u00a0\u00a0 ![\"back](\"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/KnitBot-Yarn-Gallery\/2014-BoxSweet\/IMG_4896-small.jpg\")
<\/a>![\"back](\"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/KnitBot-Yarn-Gallery\/2014-BoxSweet\/IMG_5010-small.jpg\")
<\/a><\/td>\nBack of the sweater<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n ![\"sleeve](\"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/KnitBot-Yarn-Gallery\/2014-BoxSweet\/IMG_5009-small.jpg\")
<\/a>![\"short-rowed](\"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/KnitBot-Yarn-Gallery\/2014-BoxSweet\/IMG_5011-small.jpg\")
<\/a><\/td>\nDetail of the sleeve with the mitred squares.
\nNote the inset stripes between front and back, and the matching short-rowed sections on the sleeve in the second picture — that’s how Medium is done.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n ![\"comparing](\"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/KnitBot-Yarn-Gallery\/2014-BoxSweet\/IMG_4838-small.jpg\")
<\/a>![\"small,](\"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/KnitBot-Yarn-Gallery\/2014-BoxSweet\/IMG_4839-small.jpg\")
<\/a>![\"inspection!\"](\"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/KnitBot-Yarn-Gallery\/2014-BoxSweet\/IMG_4897-small.jpg\")
<\/span><\/a><\/td>\nTesting the Small against a personal sweater muslin (white) — quite a difference.\u00a0 So, I made Medium.\u00a0 Of course, the sweater needed Inspection.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n ![\"before](\"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/KnitBot-Yarn-Gallery\/2014-BoxSweet\/IMG_4831-small.jpg\")
<\/a><\/td>\nLaid out flat, before knitting side additions\/sleeve short-rows and assembling.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n ![\"figuring](\"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/KnitBot-Yarn-Gallery\/2014-BoxSweet\/IMG_2126-small.jpg\")
<\/a>![\"first](\"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/KnitBot-Yarn-Gallery\/2014-BoxSweet\/IMG_2149-small.jpg\")
<\/a><\/td>\nFirst step — figuring out the chromatic progression of my main and contrasting colours\u00a0 (7 and 5 of each, respectively).<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"