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!
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!
posted by Kate at 5:34 AM
6 Comments:
Well, I don't have an answer for you as I haven't started yet, but I just had to say the angora is gorgeous!!!!
no advice from this side, either, because i'm sticking to the puffery, but that angora is lovely. it will look so pretty finished!
OMG, what is that increase method you're using?! A yarnover? It's so pretty!
I think some people have omitted one row of the sleeve increases...but I'd have to double check. Check out the link for the Craftster thread, as almost everyone de-puffed.
For my sleeves, where it says to k3 m1, k3 m1 to end; row 17, I did k6 m1, k6 m1 to end. I did that both times it tells you to do that row, I ended up with hardly any poofyness, and it still hung well. Then later when you're working the sleeves themselves, do k6 k2tog, k6 k2tog. I hope that's what you were looking for.
Wagh! That's so cool! The angora just looks lovely, and the yo's are so suitable to the daintyness of it all! Good job!
Hey, thanks for your help, everyone! I think I am figuring it out now. I am almost done & I will post the finished picture soon.
(cirilia: for the increases, I just knit to one stitch before the marker, did a yarn-over, knit one, slipped the marker, knit one, then did another yarnover.)
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