As I worked the first sleeve, increasing slowly, I realised that all was not well. The stitch pattern covered 24 rows, but seemed to jump after the first half. Although the knitting looked pretty good, I couldn't get the flow - and had no idea how to bring those new side stitches into the pattern.
I measured the progress I had so far, and realised that if I followed the increase instructions, the finished sleeve would measure 24" from cuff to armhole - even my arms aren't that long!
The pattern gauge was given in stocking stitch, and I had matched it exactly, but the lace cable pattern for the actual design was turning out to be a different beast.
Things had to change. I frogged the 3" of sleeve I had worked, and decided to create my own pattern.
I thought about what I liked from this design, browsed through my stitch dictionaries for a while, and ended up with this:
I'm doing basically the same shape garment, but with a flowing cable design - twisted 2-stitch cables rotating anti-clockwise for the cuffs and collar, leading into wider 6-stitch cables turning clockwise in alternate columns as they climb the garment.
It flows - and I like it.
1 comment:
Impressive to come up with your own design - good luck with it!
Anita
PS. I think we live in the same part of the world - I noticed the word 'Cornwall' popped up in a recent post of yours...
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