I am working out an idea for a sweater in my mind. It’s going to be a cardigan, a zippered one I am pretty sure. It’ll be a little bit fitted and it MIGHT even have bust darts (that is a very tentative might). So, I’m looking for advice.
I am going to use yarn from Three Irish Girls, Elenya Alpaca to be exact, which is a light worsted-ish yarn. I’m almost certain I’ll use Fitzgerald, with a coordinating solid in the Spruce color. I still *might* use Carrick, with an undetermined coordinating solid.
Here are my ideas (please note that the yarn will not be exactly this splotchy, but the spraypaint tool was the easiest way to approximate variegated yarn with Paint):
1) Variegated body with contrast color at the neckline and zipper bands, and corrugated ribbing with the contrast color and variegated color at the waist and wrists.
2) Wide Stripes of variegated and contrast color, with contrast solid zipper bands.
3) Thin stripes of the contrast solid and thicker stripes of the variegated, with contrast solid button bands, and possibly corrugated ribbing at the waist and wrists.
So – what do you prefer, and why?
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8 November 2007 at 10:49 pm
Shiori
When you were describing the sweater at Stitchers, I was thinking that stripes was not a great idea. However, after looking at your drawings, my choice is #3. #2 just doesn’t do it for me. #1 is nice but a bit boring. #3 has nice levels of variation and the stripes should prevent the variegated yarn from pooling.
All that being said, I am wondering if you should make something more akin to a Fair Isle. Small solid colored motifs would look nice against the variegated background or vice versa.
9 November 2007 at 8:52 am
Abigail
Thanks for the input, Shiori! I had been thinking #2 for stripes but my little diagram just looks awful, so I tried it with thin stripes of color and like it. I agree that I think #1 would be boring.
I’ve thought about a fair isle type pattern, but I am not that confident in my stranding. It would be a good way to get better at it, that’s for sure. But, it would also take a lot more yarn and it’s going to be expensive enough as it is :-/
Hmm…
9 November 2007 at 12:58 pm
nancy
I think #2 would look good but you need to have thicker solid stripes than variegated. The stripe sizes are too close together to make me like it much. #3 would be fun although I still think it can pool slightly wierdly with thicker stripes like that.
I still vote for fair isle. Start with a hat! :)
9 November 2007 at 1:06 pm
Jessica
I like number 1.