Seven months in the making: FO #4 = sweater #1

[flexagon]

Hmm. I feel like I have something nice going on in my life besides trying to remember the Bellman-Ford algorithm for my three-hour final exam tomorrow.

But what is it? What could it be?



Ohhhhh, I remember. It's that I'm done knitting my sweater! Right! Hey, everyone, check out my sweater.



Ooh, hot stuff. Hot, I say.



The extra motif on the sleeves is a pattern mod, probably the best one I made:



And now for an action shot. One, two, three, HANG OUT WITH KITTIES!



More details will appear on my knitting blog later. Thanks to heisenbug for being my photographer. :)

Comments

[figmint.livejournal.com]

I Can. Not. Believe that you made that with your own hands. Holy cow! That is just toooooo gorgeous!

Can you say more about the "math" part of it? Like, geometry math, getting things to line up and all?

I just started crocheting because my left hand is apparently too uncoordinated to knit, sigh. I hope I can not get frustrated with it and actually make things.

[flexagon]

Can you say more about the "math" part of it?

Sure thing... yeah, it's mostly the most basic of basic geometry. A little multiplying, a little addition.

In general, a knit stitch has a height and a width. While you're getting ready to start a sweater (or anything else where size matters), you make a little square to make sure your stitch height and width match what the designer expected you to have. But... if they don't, you can often just scale the design to fit YOUR stitch size. Heh heh.

Less ambitiously you might go "oh, this sweater is great, but it's cut straight, and I'd really like it to nip in by 6 inches at the waist. So, I'm getting five stitches to the inch, I guess that means I'll want to decrease 30 stitches over some number of rows as I work up toward the waist, and then increase again."

[figmint.livejournal.com]

Wow, that sounds quite complicated. And yet, very satisfying!

[flexagon]

P.S. are you on Ravelry yet? Go to www.ravelry.com and get on the waiting list... it's worth it!

[figmint.livejournal.com]

Cool! Just signed up for it!