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Jan Sweater

Jan Sweater

This week I thought I might try something new. Instead of showing the finished product, I would write each week on the progress of the project I’m working on.

I started on a new sweater (Jan Sweater) from the same Ravelry source. I got halfway up the pattern and had started decreasing the stitches for the armhole shaping when I noticed that the holes in the pattern were not lining up correctly.

Not to worry, I thought. I will just unravel a couple of lines and correct the mistake. Well…no. Not exactly. As I noticed when I tried o resume the pattern I had dropped a stitch and it was interfering with the pattern and there was no way for me to save it. So. I unraveled it all the way to the end of the rib stitches and began the pattern again.

For this new project I am using a pattern from Ravelry called Jan Sweater. and Tynn Merinoull yarn in a light pink

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1930’s style sweater

I just completed a sweater with a shell pattern that was originally from Woman’s Weekly May 1936. The pattern was re-written by Susan Crawford and Jane Waller in their book A Stitch in Time: Vintage Knitting Patterns 1930 – 1959 Volume 2. I used Cascade Yarns Heritage 75% Superwash Merino Wool/25% Nylon. Color No. 5705

It took me about a month and a half to make and I love the pattern,however, I did find that I made the pattern a bit to big for me and the the shoulders of the sweater ended up looking a bit off. I also didn’t make the jabot for the front of the sweater as I like the sweater without that detail in the front.

I am going to have to remake the sweater…but I might give it a bit of time before I unravel it all and start again.