Sunday 21 July 2013

"Alba" sleeves

"Alba" shoulder join by Asplund
"Alba" cardigan: shoulder join, a photo by Asplund on Flickr.
Here is the shoulder join: it is identical to the one I made for the sweater I finished some time ago. The sleeve is different, though, as there is no sleeve cap shaped with short rows.

Ann asked how I made those: starting with seven stitches in the middle I knitted back and forth adding three stitches each row until I had knitted all the stitches picked up around the armhole and could start knitting in the round. I was happy with how it turned out, but didn't feel like knitting lots of purl rows with two strands this time.

Alba sweater: sleeve cap


Instead I concentrated on figuring out where to start in the pattern. My aim was to make sleeve match the body, so I knew exactly where in the pattern I wanted the sleeve to end - but I also wanted to start where it would look good (I don't like it when patterns look amputated, and these repeats consist of 40 rows) and get the length right, of course.

Alba cardigan: body and sleeve


Jules asked about the Donegal border, whether it was my own or a new version by Alice Starmore. It is Starmore's, the one that you get with the kit. I modified it slightly, though: instead of casting on with the light colour I chose the darker one and added a couple of purl rows to make the edge curl inwards. There are photos of the original design here.

4 comments:

Ann said...

Thank you for the description.

and:
"...added a couple of purl rows to make the edge curl inwards"
I just luuuve your eye for elegant finishing detailes.

Marias garnhändelser said...

Så fint, så fint:-)
men undrar var du fått LILA ifrån :-D

Anonymous said...

Very beautiful. There is a particular beauty in all these finer technical points, as well as the overall beauty of the jumper.

I must come back to this adding purl rows idea, next time I'm doing a similar ribbing...

Anonymous said...

p.s. Thanks for your comment - I've replied on my blog.