Sitcom Chic

A free pattern from Bonne Marie Burns, available from Knitty. This is a great project that requires only a minimal of finishing. It's got great features like the eyelet band, raglan sleeves and a one button closure.

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Knitty Rowan ASC 10 balls 1 Norwegian clasp 5.0mm, 4.5mm, 3.75 mm 98 yards/50g Liberty Sale Dec 2003 Midnight second size/finished measurement 40 inches 14 May 2005 22 May 2005 None Me

The best thing about knitting is the ease to adapt patterns as required. Bonne Marie Burns's design is gorgeous, a real classic that I'm surely going to knit again. I did make a few changes so that it would fit me better. (That's not because I think that there's anythong wrong with the pattern.)
br> I used All Season's Cotton from Rowan instead of Lion Brand Cotton-ease. Nothing against Cotton-ease, it's not available in the UK and I had the ASC in stash. The meterage on Cotton-ease is more generous than the ASC. (209/100g vs 98/50g) Based on a simple yardage calculation, I would had needed 13 skeins of ASC. This is a rather conservative estimation, as I managed to eke a cardigan out of 10 balls with changes that used more yarn and wasting quite a bit by joining only at the edge of the garment. So if you're one of those stashers that stash by packs of 10, the is a great little sweater.

It's the first time that I worked anl adult garment on circs before and the weight of the garment did mess up my tension. I noticed a lot more rowing-out that usually get on this yarn, although with the dark colour, it's much less obvious.

Weaving in ends also took an amazing amount of time. Joining that garment at the armholes, added a lot of stress to the stitches at the joining point, which all needed to be reinforces to avoid gigantic holes. On the plus side, not a single knot in 10 skeins of yarn (now that's quality).



Project Notes

1. Increased the length and width of the sleeves. I added a total of 6 stitches for the sleeves. 4 stitches for the circumference and 2 stitches for selvage (since I was knitting flat and sewing afterwards). I cast on 42 stitches and increased 2 stitches every 6 rows until I had 74 stitches on the needles, then worked until the sleeves were 18 inches up to the armhole.





2. I was concerned about potential rolling in the front bands, so instead of 2 rows reverse stocking stitch, I did 3 rows garter and cast off knit-wise on 3.75mm needles. It's flat and I haven't even blocked it.





3. I wasn't too keen on crocheting a loop for the button closure, so got a nice little pewter clasp.





4. I also cast on 2 extra selvage stitches on the front, so that the ribbing was k1, *k1,p1* repeat *to *, k1. This was purely because my clasp is a little wider that the button that I would use so I needed a little more fabric to work with. This meant that I did one extra row of ribbing and started the fabric on the right side with a knit row. To deal with the last stitch when decreasing the stitches for the neckline, I had did a k3tog and sssk.





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