Aran Baby Sweater
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Februar 7, 2006: Here's the aran sweater for my cousin's baby Liam. It is a saddle shoulder sweater I designed myself with a cable running from the neck down the sleeve. I ran into trouble size-wise and it is much bigger than I anticipated, but I figure it's better too big than too small! |
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| Yarn: Lion Brand Cotton Ease in "ice blue", which, I am so sorry to say, has been discontinued.
Needles: Size 7 circulars (I used size 24" for the body and 16" when I divide the front and back sections at the underarm), size 7 dpn for the sleeves, size 6 circulars for the neck. Sweater size: 26" around the chest. Gauge: 4.5 stitches = 1" over seed stitch, 5.7 stitches = 1" over cable pattern (don't as me why they're so different, I don't know!) |
 The start of the body in the round. |
 I then divided front and back at the underarm. |
| BE VERY CAREFUL WHEN CALCULATING YOUR GAUGE! Since the gauge over the cable pattern and seed stitch are different, you need to measure each area seperately when knitting this sweater. MAKE A TEST SWATCH!!! Do not skimp out on this step and start the sweater straight away. You will be so sorry you didn't make a swatch. Trust me. Seriously. I speak from experience. It's not very funny. |
 Stitches for neck front are on holder, right side is knit up to shoulder. |
 Front and back shoulder stitches before knitting the saddle. |
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 Right side saddle done and part of sleeve. |
 My clever decrease of p1, sl next st knitwise wyib, k2tog, psso, p. |
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 Left side saddle which is not attached to the back. |
 Collar stitches knit on one size smaller needles. |
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 Back of sweater. |
 Buttons sewn to placket and a crocheted edge with buttonholes on the saddle side. |
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