{"id":1341,"date":"2007-09-21T19:01:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-21T23:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=1341"},"modified":"2007-09-21T19:01:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-21T23:01:00","slug":"fo-flower-sweater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=1341","title":{"rendered":"FO: Flower sweater"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nEmily’s flower sweater
\nPattern:<\/b> Modified Drop Shoulder from Ann Budd’s Knitter’s Handy Book of Sweater Patterns<\/a>
\nYarn:<\/b> Encore worsted – 2 sk (plus about ten extra yards) blue, 1 sk green. Odds and ends of pinks and purples for flowers
\nNeedles:<\/b> Size 7. Size 6 for neck and waist ribbing.
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\nNotes:<\/b> I misunderstood how the sleeves were going to attach. This is my fault; I just didn’t study the photographs as well as I should have. I thought they were going to attach at the bound-off edge to the bound-off edges of the body inset as well as the side seams. They did not. I therefore had about ten more stitches on the sleeves than I needed. The sleeves were wide even without that, so that didn’t help.
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\nI clearly need to work on my seaming. I can do side seam to side seam with no problem, but end to end or end to side isn’t so hot. I’ve heard that the Knitter’s Companion is a good resource for this, but I’d love to hear other suggestions.
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\nThis is the first time I’ve done daisy stitch embroidery. The flowers are deliberately cartoonish and uneven. Honest, it’s on purpose. They don’t extend around the back. I thought they’d wear away and snag with the friction of her sitting against things.<\/p>\n

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\nI had thought before attaching the sleeves that they were going to be too long, but they turned out just right. The sleeves are puffy because of the extra I mentioned above, but aside from that, this turned out well. It was practice for an adult-sized sweater, so on that basis, it’s a success. My daughter also really likes it, so that’s another mark in the success column.<\/p>\n

I’d use this pattern again, but make a few modifications, like the sleeves, and lengthening the body even more than I did. This kid grows fast!<\/p>\n

(crossposted to my own journal and )<\/i>
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Emily’s flower sweater Pattern: Modified Drop Shoulder from Ann Budd’s Knitter’s Handy Book of Sweater Patterns Yarn: Encore worsted – 2 sk (plus about ten extra yards) blue, 1 sk green. Odds and ends of pinks and purples for flowers Needles: Size 7. Size 6 for neck and waist ribbing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[87,49],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}