I finished the sleeves on my Airy Wrap this morning and am putting off redoing the back right now. I need to rip it back and eliminate a lot of the length before I do the fronts.
Now obviously when I pick up for the fronts, I'll be picking up less stitches than the pattern indicates b/c it'll be shorter than the length indicated, but I am also kind of questioning the 45" length for the fronts before the eyelet pattern, although that's more about wrapping the sweater around than length, per se. Any thoughts, from those of you who've finished this one?
No help on the pick up stitches, but it looks beautiful!
Posted by: Bobbi | April 15, 2007 at 01:00 PM
Hmm.. I haven't knit this yet myself, but I think the general rule is to pick up 2 stitches for every 3 rows when you are working with something at a bulkier gauge like this. I guess you'd just have to experiment and see how it looks.
Posted by: Chandra | April 15, 2007 at 01:25 PM
This picture really showed off the color a lot better. It looks very pretty.
About the picking up stitches - I have done that (I could not resist my very nice yarn) I am making one for my 4 year old daughter and off course had to do some addjustments. I am knitting on 5 mm needles and get a different gauge that fits her size. But I did try it on during the process and ended up shortening the back, too. When picking up for the front I did not get as many stitches as in the pattern. That gave me a problem with the pattern (k2tog, YO). So insted of 4 repeats I have 3, because I don't think it will look good having a YO at the very beginning and end of the front-wrap. I will try to post a picture of it later!
Posted by: Knittacia | April 16, 2007 at 03:14 AM
Sorry I can't give you any advice Robin. But I just wanted to tell you that those colors are *gorgeous*!! It will look great on you when you finish. Good luck!!
Posted by: Maryanne | April 16, 2007 at 11:39 AM