Mini sweater success!

I'm almost done with my Mini sweater, and since I have no idea how to post photos here, you can view them on my blog. Hope everyone has a great weekend!

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One more time...

Well, I;ve started again, broken hand and all. This time I am using NoroSilk Garden in a really springy interesting colorway.

This yarn is both a delight and an oddity to work with.

It is suck a mix of colors, textures, and thicknesses. But the outcome so far is beautiful. I am about 2 increases in.

We will see if the kitties leave this one alone...

Sweater Sack

I am nearly finished with my Mini Sweater, and there is something about it... I still have to work the garter edge on the sleeves, but it seems less fitted and more like a sack. I love the yarn (Lang Tosca), which striped very nicely.

Should I rip back a few rows or can I work this? The yarn is wool, so maybe when I block it the sizing will "shrink" a bit.

how I depoofed

To answer the question about how I depuffed the sleeves...I think I just skipped the increase row that says K3, M1...and then skipped the decreasing on the sleeves altogether. Hope it helps!

Here's my minisweater!

I made it a wrap-around sweater, sort of like the one that Glampyre posted on her blog recently.

My finished minisweater! I got the yarn on Monday and finished it last night (Sunday) and wove in the ends this morning. I love how fast it was (now just to see if it fits the recipient!) 

Here I am!

I really don't know how this is going to fit on me, it seems kind of tiny, but alot of people have said they knittied it too big. So I'm hoping I guess. When I CO I didn't even know where I was starting it. The top? The bottom? Where is everything!? But it seems to be coming togetehr nicely.


(ooo my pretty stitch markers)
Here are the m1 increases on the sleeve sections. I ended up with a little bit of an eyelet almost, but the puckering of the sleeves sort of covers it up well. I really dig the puckery sleeves... I hope its amaing when I'm done. I don't know what I'm going to use for the edging, I'm actually thinking about using orange. I have a ton of bright orange yarn. Dinosaury? Maybe... we'll see!

Oh man... I've got this going in some celery green stuff I got from my Grandmother. I think it's acrylic... but I think it also softens up a whole bunch after washing. It's the same stuff she used to make every afghan in my house and those are super nice.

Anyway!!

I'm not very far along... but here's a photo... how am I supposed to increase? I think I know how... so I'll try it... but someone help!

Thanks!

I finally have a picture of my sweater in progress:

I took this on the second day of working on the project, but I am actually almost done with it now... except that I ran into a problem & now I have a question for everyone who is making non-puffy sleeves.

How are you all doing it??

I just knit straight, but the bind-off edge is a tiny bit too snug, even though I bound off with bigger needles to try to make it loose. Then, I frogged the sleeve and worked a few increases at the seam edge, but this messed up the shape of the sleeve, so I frogged again. I was thinking of trying to knit the garter stitch band with size 10.5 needles to see if that would make it a little looser. I just need like another centimeter of space for my arms to be comfy. It is frustrating me.

I think part of the problem is that I knit the sweater with angora (it was my first time knitting with angora) and it doesn't have very much stretch. Anyhow, I would really appreciate any advice on how to make non-puffy sleeves for this sweater.

Thanks!

Progress on my minisweater. I'm using Licorice Cotton-Ease and making it for Hawaiilove from Craftster. You can't tell because the yarn is so black, but I'm on Row 25. I'm not making the sleeves puffy so I ignored the instructions from Row 17 and just increased as normal. Ok, now a question....when it gives the total rows in parenthesis before you separate the stitches...is that including the 8 garter stitch rows? I tried to count and do the math, but my brain just isn't working today! Thanks!

Got yarn!

About one month ago, I purchase four balls of this Lang Tosca, thinking that I would use it to make a vest.

The vest idea went by the wayside, and the yarn languished.
The guage is 12, rather than 13, but I think it will make a great Mini Sweater.

Planning on starting soon!

Hello everyone! Wow, some of you are really trucking along with the pattern. I have the yarn but haven't started yet. I ran into some problems with a sweater I'm making for my mother for mother's day. I can't stand it anymore though! I'm planning on casting on for the minisweater either today or tomorrow. Got to check my needle supply. I'm using Plymouth Encore in petal yellow. I think it's going to be very nice for spring.

Hello all,
I'm new to the Minisweater KAL... My name is Kate. I just started my sweater two days ago and I love this project so far. It knits up really fast. I am already to the part where you separate the sleeve stitches and start on the body. The only thing that I have had trouble with is the increases on this part. The pattern says to m1 on the purl side, but that was looking really funny on mine, so I decided to work the increases on the knit side. I knit 7 then m1 knit until 7 remain, m1 then knit the remaining stitches so there is a smooth line along the garter stitch band. Did anyone else have trouble with this part?
Anyhow, overall, I really like the sweater and I am already daydreaming about making it again. I love to see the different yarns that every one is using for their sweaters, too. I am making this one in grey angora that I got a thrift store. I think I might make another one with some scraps of two different colorways of Noro Silk Garden that I have. I think the pattern would lend itself to self-striping yarn.
Well, that's all for now. I will try to post a picture soon. Happy knitting!

Progress

I am up to row 14 on the Boobholder. It's not as complicated as I thought it was and it looks wonderful !!

Chunks of Yarn.

So, here's my "progress".

I got that far. Then decided that I was gonna run out of yarn (I'm using a leftover cone from my first ever sweater). So, I ripped it right out, and pondered for a while. Then pulled out some of Katia's "Mississippi", which I absolutely looove, and decided to use that for the arms.

Using a different yarn for the sleeves is only something I'd reccomend if you've got a good amount of separate balls of yarn (try 5). I just randomly wound up my own. Bad idea.
To help me cut down on current projects, I've got three shoeboxes. One per project at a time. Want to start something new? Bad luck, you'll have to motivate yourself and finish soemthing else first. It works.
But yeah. This is what my Boobholder Box looks like.

This is the stuff of nightmares. All my chunks of yarn (they used to kind of look a little like balls of yarn. Now they are just knots. Lots.) have just mashed together. It takes like, ten minutes to get one row done, if I'm lucky. :'(
Ah well. It's gonna look so cute though :D
Anyone else got some progress pictures happening yet?

Yummy Laces!

For the one that's on my needles now, I'm using Lorna's Laces: Fisherman, in the RIver colorway. It's very pretty, and handles well. I've already frogged this one once, after I had the sleeves done, since the sleeves were huge on me even after the decreases. So now I'm trying on the current one after every couple of rows, also i've made some modifications to the sleeves so they won't be so huge this time. This one will be my winter early spring one. I'm planning on also making one in cotton for those cool summer nights.

-Danielle

The MiniSweater/Boobholder Knit Along

Yay! Finally, tis here!
Alright, so, lets get started. This is a knit-a-long blog for those who are currently (or those who will be in the near future) knitting Stephanie Japel's Minisweater. It's a cute little pattern, and doesn't get boring, like some do :D
If you would like to join...Let me know and I'll see if I can figure out how to invite you to this blog. I'll be ok, I'll work it out :P
You can contact me at : noirlutin(AT)hotmail(DOT)com or my blog or just leave a comment here :)
So yeah, that's about it. We'll get a button happening soon, too. I've got to head out now, so I'll get around to that. Anyone want to donate one? Alll are welcome!