Today I have started on my first sweater. It's going to be a seamless Icelandic yoke style done in blue and green heathered Lopi yarn. I am going to use the Zimmerman Percentage System to get the sizing right and pretty much make it up as I go for the color patterning. The nice thing about Lopi yarn is that the knitting goes quickly, since the yarn is so bulky! I pretty much have the ribbing for the body done already.
UPDATE: I now have the body over halfway done.
UPDATE 2: I'm now working on the sleeves, using the same 2-on-2-circs technique that I've been using for socks. I'm past the forearm shaping and into the straight stretch up to the underarms.
3 comments:
Good for you!!! That sweater will be warm and stylish. I have a thick sweater that I knit, which goes with me to every music festival. I made it just for that purpose, as it gets cold in the woods after dark, and I'm a wimpy citygrrl.
Last year when it was 36F degrees in the tent (3rd week of Sept), I slept in that sweater (2 strands of Brown Sheep Lamb's Pride worsted held together at 2.85st/in). Was mighty glad I'd taken the effort to make it!!! Brrrr.
Jon, I'm not up on the percentage system. I'm taking it that it's bottom up raglan?
karen, dave's e-mail friend in TX
Hi Karen,
It is bottom up, but not raglan. It's a Icelandic/Norwegian-style yoked sweater with colorwork around the chest area.
The Zimmerman Percentage System is a way to design your own sweater in any style, any size. Basically, you measure your chest/bust, add your desired amount of ease, multiply by gauge and there's your number of stitches to cast on. Everything else (neck opening, armhole depth, etc) is a percentage of this number. The details can be found in "Knitting Without Tears" as referenced in an earlier post.
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