Vielä kerran / Once more

Vihriä projekti on viimeistelyä vaille valmis. Puuttuu enää pingotus, höyrytys, päättely ja napit. Niin ja tietysti muistiinpanojen tarkistus ennen kuin poistan kaikki merkkihakaneulat.

Yksi yksityiskohta pistää kuitenkin itsellä silmään. Sen voisi tehdä paremminkin. Ja neuleesta tuli niukahko… eli kokonaan uusi versio kokoa suurempana tulossa Pohjan Akasta:

My green project is almost ready. Only finishing left. And re-checking my notes before I remove my safety pin help markings.

There is one detail I’m not so happy with and it could be done neater. The cardigan is also quite tight… so I’m working on a whole new one in Knitlob’s Lairs’ Pohjan Akka, in one bigger size:

Semisolidi lanka sopii tähän pintaneuleeseen täydellisesti! / Semisolid yarn is just perfect for this structured surface!

Yksityiskohta johon en siis ole aivan tyytyväinen on ”sivusaumojen” ruudut:

The detail that I’m not so happy with, are the squares in the “side seams”:

Mun silmä kaipaa tuohon kummiskin sitä yhtä pystyraitaa. / My eye wants one more vertical stripe there.

Takakappaleen notkoselän muotoilut onnistuivat paljon paremmin:

The swayback shaping in the back worked out much better:

Uutta versiota tikutellessa saan samalla tarkistettua ohjeenraakileen;)

Taustalla siis tapahtuu koko ajan vaikka tänne asti ei kaikkea ehdi päivittämään.

And while I’m knitting a new version, I’ll be able to re-check the pattern that’s under construction ;)

WTF?! No eases?!

I don’t use “eases” in my patterns, since I think it’s unnecessary. It’s just like with retail clothes; I think it’s up to the customer to make the decision about how loose or fitted they want the garment to be. If size M is too loose and the customer wants it to be more “hugging”, they’ll choose smaller size, size S. And again if size M is too tight for their taste, they’ll go for one size bigger, size L. – Or this is how it should be! Never choose a garment by the number on the size tag! Do it by the fit! – This is why my patterns have only the chest circumference of the finished garment mentioned: so that he knitters have themselves the option to choose what kind of ease is for their own taste. And since my patterns aren’t necessary made for any particular yarn, the ease depends also a lot on what kind of yarn is used to the garment: cotton doesn’t usually stretch as much as wool for example.

Lets’ take for example my Elly cardigan. I’ve knitted two different sizes: one for myself and one for my mum. For myself I made it in size S, with finished chest circumference of 80 cm -> my real chest circumference is about 78 cm, so the cardigan isn’t that tight on me. Especially since I’ve knitted it in wool blend that is really stretchy: I can stretch the cardigan up to 100 cm round the chest! But that is already way too tight. For my taste, that is. My mums’cardigan I made in size XXL, with the finished chest circumference of 118 cm -> if I remember right, mums’ chest circumference was the same… or maybe 117 cm, but almost the same anyway and it still isn’t too tight because of the quite stretchy yarn in wool blend. If I had graded the pattern for one bigger size, it would have been way too loose on my mum since it was meant to be a fitted cardigan.

I personally don’t like patterns with all kinds of eases. I only need the finished measurements of the garment and can calculate for myself how much ease I need to have for it looking good on me. 

Akustiina

Akustiina on vartaloa myötäilevä perusneuletakki erittäin syvällä V-pääntiellä. Näyttävänä yksityiskohtana hahtuvaiset hapsut mohairista olkapäillä.

Raglantakki neulotaan ylhäältä alas yhtenä kappaleena, ilman saumoja. Ohjeesta löytyy muokkausvaihtoehtoja rinnanmuotoiluille sekä notkoselälle eli työtä voi matkan varrella sovitella ja muokata omalle vartalolle hyvin istuvaksi.

Koot S – M – L – XL – XXL, rinnan ympärys 80 – 88 – 99 – 106 – 118 cm – Lanka on fingering paksuista (wpi 16) ja neulotaan 2,5 ja 3 mm puikoilla. Hapsut hiuksenhienosta mohairista, ohjeessa mukana vaihtoehto myös harvemmalle hapsutukselle.

Akustiina is a fitted basic cardigan with a deep V-neckline and a dashing mohair fringe detail on the shoulders.

The raglan cardigan is knitted seamless, in one piece, top-down. Pattern includes options for chest, waist and swayback shaping’s, so you can try on the cardigan along the way and adjust it to fit your own body.

Sizes S – M – L – XL – XXL cm, finished chest measurements 80 – 88 – 99 – 106 – 118 cm – Knitted in fingering yarn (16 wpi) with 2,5 and 3 mm needles. The fringes are made with cobweb mohair and the pattern includes an alternative for a thinner fringing.