{"id":21434,"date":"2025-11-12T22:55:47","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T21:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=21434"},"modified":"2025-11-17T23:12:34","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T22:12:34","slug":"daily_3906_-_multi-colour_sweater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2025\/11\/12\/daily_3906_-_multi-colour_sweater\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 3906 – multi-colour sweater"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’m making a sweater out of (five of the) six recycled yarns<\/a>. A ribbed raglan sweater in crazy stripes.<\/p>\n

This is not the kind of thing I normally wear. There is nothing in my wardrobe even remotely like it. I have been doubting my design decisions about this thing all the way. Then again, I had strong doubts about the last crazy sweater<\/a> I made, and it still ended up among my favourites.<\/p>\n

Even if it does end up not worn much, it’s been a useful learning experience. I’m experimenting with different rates of raglan decreases for the shoulder section, which I haven’t done before. You can do all the calculating and measuring you want, but the only way to really see if the numbers work out, is to knit the thing.<\/p>\n

It’s also been surprisingly fun to knit. For the stripes, I bought a commercial pattern (Free Spirit<\/a>) to follow, because fiddling around with those did not sound like an enjoyable task. This pattern does a good job of mixing up the colours in clever ways, much better than any attempt of mine would have been. It doesn’t try to keep all five going all the time – it focuses on, say, three of them for about eight or ten rows, then swaps in one of the others, etc. It’s still an awful lot of colour changes, and the inside is a mess of yarn ends and needle ends, but there won’t be an end to weave in for every single row.<\/p>\n

The 3×1 ribbing is a constant mental challenge. I am so used to 2×2 ribbing for sock legs that I revert to that as soon as I lose focus. I can watch or listen to something while knitting this, but it’s far from mindless knitting.<\/p>\n

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