My knits seem to be progressing faster than I can blog about them. Not a bad place to be, really...
Here's half of a sleeve and the body almost up to the armholes of my current sweater. I say almost to the armholes because after I put sweater on waste yarn I decided I want another inch. I'll knit those rows up once the sleeves are done, before I put everything on the needles together.
I decided to go with the graduated stripes. It's a really simple pattern: each stripe is one row wider than the stripe before.
When I started, I had in mind Elizabeth Zimmerman's seamless sweater with inset sleeves. I'm also now considering the Hybrid. I don't really have to decide until both sleeves are done!
Even though the sweater body is knit bottom up, I cast on with waste yarn and I'm knitting the sleeves top down. I wanted the stripes to line up correctly when everything is joined, and it's difficult to tell which direction stockinette is facing anyway. It also has the added advantage of every stripe knitting up a little faster than the previous one!
ohhh yumm! I must say I love the graduated stripes now that I see it done up. Its going to be a lovely sweater!
Posted by: Kelly | August 21, 2007 at 05:57 PM
Are you carrying the yarn up the side?
Posted by: Lisa | August 21, 2007 at 07:34 PM
Yes, that was pretty darn fast. :) Looks really cute so far; I love tweedy stuff.
Posted by: Sacha | August 21, 2007 at 07:47 PM
Looks great! The tweedy colors are fantastic together.
Posted by: Brenda | August 21, 2007 at 08:11 PM
nice progress!
Posted by: jody | August 21, 2007 at 08:13 PM
You really do amaze me. I might come up with an idea but it seems that I very rarely, if ever, carry it through. Wow!
Posted by: Tanya | August 21, 2007 at 08:22 PM
Wow, that was fast! I love your color choice on this, just great!
Posted by: Carol | August 21, 2007 at 08:28 PM
Knitting faster than you can blog about it? That's a great problem to have!
I love those colors together...further proof of my "tweed can do no wrong" theory.
Posted by: Ariel | August 21, 2007 at 08:31 PM
Wow, you're speedy! Looks good!
Posted by: Clumsy Knitter | August 21, 2007 at 08:39 PM
Nice striping! Yes, progressing faster than you can blog is definitely a very good thing!
Posted by: Oiyi | August 21, 2007 at 09:53 PM
Looking good. The tweedy stripes are great.
Posted by: Christy / Not Hip | August 21, 2007 at 10:54 PM
I LOVE this. I love the colors and I love how you are being so precise with the matching of stripes. But here is the money question, are your jogs jogless? And my intention is not to sound dirty or provocative at all...seriously.
Posted by: nova | August 22, 2007 at 12:34 AM
Knit! Knit! Knit! It's looking great!
Posted by: tiennie | August 22, 2007 at 01:04 AM
This is coming along great! I love purple and green - so I love the sweater already! It's nice when we feel our knits are moving along quickly because sometimes it can feel like watching paint dry to do a lot of stockinette - this will be a beautiful fall sweater!
Posted by: Stacey | August 22, 2007 at 09:15 AM
that is coming along fast!!! love the stripes - that is a great idea to do them graduated!
Posted by: stacey | August 22, 2007 at 09:48 AM
i love that sweater! if you write up a pattern and need a test knitter, count me in ;-)
Posted by: Sara | August 22, 2007 at 09:52 AM
It's coming along so well! The colors really do look great together. Good thinking on doing the sleeves top down.
Posted by: Jean | August 22, 2007 at 06:25 PM
So pretty with all that tweedy action! I'm looking forward to seeing how your crazy stripes turn out.
Posted by: kelp! | August 23, 2007 at 12:53 AM
Like everyone else, I love the colors, the stripes, the tweediness -- this is going to be a super cute, totally wearable sweater!
Posted by: pamela wynne | August 23, 2007 at 11:04 AM
Very clever plan! :-) And I'm glad you went with the graduated stripes. They are TOO cool. :-)
Posted by: Beth S. | August 23, 2007 at 12:20 PM