Today in sweater-knitting news
Jul. 6th, 2025 06:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I am knitting the simplest possible* bottom-up sweater, and today I reached two simultaneous milestones:
1. I finished the main torso of the sweater to the point where I divide for the armholes.
2. I finished exactly one third of my total yarn.
Is that an appropriate amount of yarn to have used to this point? Will there be enough to knit the entire sweater? I HAVE NO IDEA!! One of my reasons for knitting a simple sweater is to give myself an idea of a yarn baseline. I want to find out what is the least amount of yarn I can use and make a sweater.
*Simplest possible for me, and yes, I am aware of the irony there. But it's stockinette, in the round, I'm really very close to the stitch and row gauge called for in the pattern, and I'm only making really very very few modifications as I go. (Just the ribbing depth and the body shaping and the total length and the sleeve-cap type and probably the sleeve shaping as well.) Practically no modifications at all!
I'm very happy with it so far, and am looking forward to seeing what happens with the rest of it. :D
1. I finished the main torso of the sweater to the point where I divide for the armholes.
2. I finished exactly one third of my total yarn.
Is that an appropriate amount of yarn to have used to this point? Will there be enough to knit the entire sweater? I HAVE NO IDEA!! One of my reasons for knitting a simple sweater is to give myself an idea of a yarn baseline. I want to find out what is the least amount of yarn I can use and make a sweater.
*Simplest possible for me, and yes, I am aware of the irony there. But it's stockinette, in the round, I'm really very close to the stitch and row gauge called for in the pattern, and I'm only making really very very few modifications as I go. (Just the ribbing depth and the body shaping and the total length and the sleeve-cap type and probably the sleeve shaping as well.) Practically no modifications at all!
I'm very happy with it so far, and am looking forward to seeing what happens with the rest of it. :D