{"id":20055,"date":"2025-01-20T23:17:38","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T22:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=20055"},"modified":"2025-01-21T23:44:02","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T22:44:02","slug":"daily_3611_-_orange_sweater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2025\/01\/20\/daily_3611_-_orange_sweater\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 3611 &#8211; orange sweater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3611_sweater_1.jpg\" class=\"x45y6\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>The orange sweater is done.<\/p>\n<p>Like almost all the sweaters I&#8217;ve made, there are things I like about it and things I don&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>I like the fit and the construction of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/patterns\/library\/sweatrrr\">Sweatrrr<\/a> pattern, which is why I&#8217;m using it for the third time. It fits me perfectly around the neck and shoulders.<\/p>\n<p>Just like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2024\/01\/07\/daily_3249_-_green_sweater_finished\/\">last time<\/a> I only used the basic construction and skipped the design elements. I used a simple 1&#215;1 ribbing for the hem and cuffs and neckline this time. These came out really nice and tidy and look great.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3611_sweater_3.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The yarn is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apmezga.lt\/produkto-kategorija\/rankomis-dazyti-siulai-lt-en\/merino-wool-100-nsw\/\"\">Monoceros by Apmezga<\/a>, 100% hand-dyed merino. The overall colour is lovely, and the yarn feels very soft. It&#8217;s going to feel very comfortable to wear.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got mixed feelings about the yarn in the context of this sweater, though. The variegated colour worked out so-so. It led to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2024\/08\/15\/daily_3455_-_sweater_stripes\/\">ugly striping<\/a> at first, and I did end up ripping back the body all the way to the start of the waist shaping and re-knitting without shaping. It fit better than I had expected; it drapes well enough that the boxier fit looks good on me. <\/p>\n<p>The narrower, more even stripes on the re-knitted body aren&#8217;t bad. But because they&#8217;re not in sync with the width of the body, the stripes &#8220;travel&#8221;, so they end up looking slightly slanted. When I look at the sweater straight on, it looks like I&#8217;m not wearing it straight. I&#8217;m not sure what I think of that. And I&#8217;m not very fond of the abrupt transition from wide colour blotches on the shoulders to the super narrow striping on the sleeves.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3611_sweater_2.jpg\" class=\"x45y6\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Even though all four hanks of yarn were from the same dye lot, one was slightly different. It&#8217;s missing the smallest, darkest specks of brown. I didn&#8217;t see it before using the yarn &#8211; only when I switched from one hank to the next near the bottom of the sweater. Alternating two hanks didn&#8217;t help because it was not the abrupt transition that was problematic, but the fact that the skeins just didn&#8217;t match. I ripped that back and used the deviant hank for the sleeves, and now I can barely see the difference even when I&#8217;m looking for it.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3611_sweater_4.jpg\" class=\"x6y4\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The orange sweater is done. Like almost all the sweaters I&#8217;ve made, there are things I like about it and things I don&#8217;t. I like the fit and the construction of the Sweatrrr pattern, which is why I&#8217;m using it for the third time. It fits me perfectly around the neck and shoulders. Just like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[767,18,784,4,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crafts-2","category-dailies","category-knitting","category-observing_the_self","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20055","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=20055"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20066,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20055\/revisions\/20066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}