![]() ![]() Please measure yourself before casting on to estimate which size will fit you best. Therefore, the sizes XS (S) M (L) XL correspond to a bust measurement of approx. This intended positive ease is built into the pattern. The Scotty Sweater is meant to be worn with a positive ease of approx. Knit a swatch to find the needle size that gives you the correct gauge. The decorative lines for the characteristic pattern on the Scotty Sweater are embroidered at the end using duplicate stitches. The Scotty Sweater requires almost no finishing, except for sewing down the folded neckband and the cuffs at the sleeves. The neckband is knit in rib from picked-up stitches along the neckline and is folded over for a double collar. Next, you will pick up stitches along the armholes for working the set-in sleeves using short rows. You will begin by knitting the top back, then the shoulders, the front, and then the body of the sweater. You can substitute for another yarn or yarn combination that gives the same gauge, but keep in mind that the fabric characteristics may vary. This is a further gamble, because stranded colorwork (as Naomi told me on Twitter) tends to have square stitches, and intarsia has rectangular ones.The Scotty Sweater is knit from the top down in stockinette stitch holding one strand of Spinni and two strands of Silk Mohair together. My plan is to further simplify the intarsia chart down to a stranded colorwork chart. ![]() ![]() I’d enjoy it if you sent me a photo though, so I can cheer you on. If you want to use this chart on your knitting, or the twist stitch one, be my guest. It will join other swatches in a bag until there are enough to piece into a blanket. If you don’t count the 3 times I picked out the embroidery, this owl has the honor of being knit once from the first chart. My husband and sons are always telling me to use more color in my knitting, so this swatch had a happy reception. The embroidery took longer than the knitting did, because I cannot count! I actually had to pick out my embroidery 3 times. I love it when the computer does fiddly things for me. Then the program re-colors the sections for you. a question box will jump up asking which color you wish to replace it with. One feature of Stitchmastery that makes simplifying colorwork charts easier is that if you are, say turning all of your midtone brown into pale brown, you can highlight the midtone brown in the key, and delete it. The more references for embroidery the less I get lost. I was happy with how it turned out, so I’m not going to re-do it, but if I were, I’d knit in the white patches in the tail, body and edges of the face. Once I had knit the intarsia base, I duplicate stitched the details on it.Īctually the first chart I’d made had the details, and I simplified it to the intarsia chart above. I was gambling that the proportions would work from twist stitch to intarsia, since twist stitches pull in, and intarsia does not. One had an owl sitting in a pine tree, which was great because the green yarn that I had went with the brown yarn better than the blue yarn that I had. I did monkey with the colors a bit, it turns out there are color variations in Northern Saw Whets, so I looked at reference photos on Google Images until I found a pretty one with colors like yarns I had in leftovers or stash. I decided to do the intarsia owl next because I found a chart on my hard drive all ready to go, based on the twist stitch owl. All these interviews have made me ready to make the next owl.
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