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What would life even be if I didn’t have a knitting project underway?<\/p>\n
This is the third basic sweater I’m doing from the same pattern, Sweatrrr<\/a> by \u00c5sa S\u00f6derman. I don’t agree with all the details (and indeed the first one is getting less use than it could because I dislike the hem and cuffs and neckline) but the fit and shaping around the shoulder and neck area is so perfect that I keep coming back to it.<\/p>\n The first one<\/a> was in a grayish speckled yarn from MadelineTosh, and the second one<\/a> a speckled greenish yarn from Apmezga. This latest one also looked mostly speckled at first but turned out to be more variegated than that, and now the sweater is coming out striped. The subtle, thin stripes towards the top were nice, but then as I started decreasing for the waist, the colours pooled more and more and I was getting strong tiger stripes instead. Not the look I was going for! I introduced a second ball of yarn and alternated between the two balls on every row, which mixed up the stripes, but also didn’t look anything like the top section. And then the first ball ran out, and the second ball on its own gave thick stripes again, but by that time I was doing hip increases and the stripes evened out after a while.<\/p>\n It all looks like a haphazard patchwork of different kinds of stripes and I am really not satisfied with it. The only way around it is to rip it up and reknit it without the waist shaping. Do I want a straight, boxy sweater? Preferably not… but I guess it might be better than this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What would life even be if I didn’t have a knitting project underway? This is the third basic sweater I’m doing from the same pattern, Sweatrrr by \u00c5sa S\u00f6derman. I don’t agree with all the details (and indeed the first one is getting less use than it could because I dislike the hem and cuffs […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[767,18,784,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crafts-2","category-dailies","category-knitting","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19385"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19386,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19385\/revisions\/19386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}