Therefore I'm not taking another picture of the Syncronicity Sleeve. Plus the batteries on the digicam need recharging anyhow. So I'll tell you that I'm knitting this yarn in my own made-up intarsia design; I'm pretty much making it up as I go, so it will look silly but hopefully there's enough color and it's gorgeous enough yarn to be a nice sweater. As far as how many stitches there are, overall, I'm using the pattern Bolan from Jaeger Book 28, which is a simple set-in sleeve sweater with a minor amount of shoulder and back neck shaping. My yarn is not exactly the right gauge but I'm just making the biggest size and hoping for the best. What does that spell? D.I.S.A.S.T.E.R., most likely, but we'll see. The sleeve is pretty, at any rate, and the silk-merino wool is a joy to knit up.
I showed off the back of the Blue Cable-y Goodness today to its intended recipient. We did that "hold it up to the body" thing and at least the back looks like a perfect fit. Hopefully the sweater will continue to fit properly once the other pieces become knitted up, too. I just need to free one of my #6 needles from the horrid tubular bind-off chaos that is PPD so that I can cast on the next piece of the Cables. I have to find a good link to someone who did the pretty Audrey increases so that I can figure out how to do the cable increases on my sleeves for this sweater.
I also started planning out the sweater I am going to make for my Dad out of the black and red German yarn. I'm thinking about doing a cable up each of the sleeves, and one up the front, too, and then when I get to the top of the sleeve, casting off all the stitches except for the cable stitches (and like 3 or so on either side) and having the cable go all the way up to the neck. I don't know what this is called when it's on the shoulder; any clues? And any opinions whether this is a good idea for a sweater for a man? I also need votes on whether I should do a solo cable floating in a sea of reverse stockinette or if I should do a stockinette body, K1b, p2 or 3, a cable, p2 or 3, k1b, then stockinette the rest of the way over. Tomorrow, once I've charged the batteries of the digicam, I'll snap front and back of my swatch so you can see. But vote anyhow. Now!
Posted by Jon at June 25, 2004 04:35 AMI think that's a saddle shoulder (whether or not it's a cable extending from the sleeve -- a strip going from the sleeve to the collar is the saddle). Try looking that up, anyway. If it *is* a saddle shoulder, that's certainly a not-uncommon feature of a man's sweater -- at least two of the sweaters I've made for my husband had that kind of shoulder.
I wouldn't do the body entirely in reverse stockinette, partly because that's an awful lot of purling and partly because I prefer the look of stocking stitch; I'd put a few purl stitches on either side of the cable and leave it at that. But that's just my opinion -- I'm sure either way it'll be great...
Posted by: Aven at June 25, 2004 11:00 AMThat's definitely a saddle shoulder, and it's a very good thing. Looks best on men with very square shoulders.
It's a blast to knit too, I've always left the shoulder stitches for the front and back "live", then you knit across your saddle and knit the last saddle stitch with a stitch from the shoulder, etc.
No seams.