Odd-ball Sweater

What do you mean by frogging it?

Mary

I've made that sweater (a pullover) a couple of times. First time, thin mohair yarn on great big needles; worked out great. I wear the sweater all the time (in the winter). Second time, short sleeves, cotton sport weight on medium (6-8--I don't remember) needles, didn't work out so well: the dolman flaps in the armpits were way to batwing-y; I had to frog it and make the whole thing smaller. In retrospect, I could have made it smaller still. I'll try to get a picture up, because it is really more of the oddball persuasion than the mohair one

It means to undo all your hard work, as in rip-it, rip-it, the sound a frog makes :-)

Frogging is a term I learned here: means ripping (rip-it, rip-it) out your work to fix something (as opposed to whatever you call it when you run a ladder down 10 or eleven rows to fix one stitch and then put it back together with a crochet hook).

Anyway, there's now a picture of the oddball sweater in the third row on my kintting page:

Oh, thanks! I do a lot of that.

Spouse tried his second (randomed cabled) fluffy sweater on last night, I didn't use a pattern and was prepared to take it out but he's happy so it stays as it is. It's OK actualy, the sleeves are a bit baggy but he likes that.

Mary in Leeds, Yorkshire

You mention the eyelash yarn, I think that must be the funky shiny non-stretchy yarns available now. I bought some very cheaply when we were in Wales, at a Pound Shop, and made a hat, I love it!

Mary

I had no idea there was a pattern for the ODD Ball sweater , many of my knitted and crocheted sweaters were /are made with odd balls of left overs. The anount and variety of the threads becomes the source for the `pattern`. One of the `patterns that i made YEARS ago ,, Is making as swatch of the mosy common thickness threads . than calculate how much you have to cast on for your Neck [if you want it with front opening , calculate same amount + 8 st. =4 on each side for buttons etc.... cast on neck stiches [ in Neki etc you cast on all if you wish a V those have to be cast on gradually] than put marker and knit down Increasing in Middle of Sleeves , middle back and Middle front , each increse is of 2 stitches both side of markers , if front is open increse 1 each before the edge stitches... [ it looks a bit like a Poncho ] Change thread each round or row, or knit till end of thread or cuth them into same length thread , or gradual lengthes ,,,, By doing the increases at the points i wrote your sweater will get Diagonal lines , when you want to finnish you will have to knit side rectangulars to fill and straigten the end , in one of mine i left the back and front Longer [triangular ] without filling the gap ,,, mirjam

They're very similar. The eyelash yarn I used is an "add-in" rather than something you could knit with alone, and dates from the 1980s. The one ball I had was enough for the stripe in that sweater and 3 inches of a hat!

Georgia

Well it works.

I ued to use odd balls and smaller lengths to knit 'playing out' jumpers for the children in stripes, zig-zags, anything. They preferred them to the smart ones ...

Mary

Me too! Will you be able to show us this sweater? Random cables sound interesting, and I'm curious, did you just cross stitches when you felt like it?

It was a first experiment, another time I'll do it differently. The background is K4 P3 for four rows (reversed if on two needles, I used circular) with two P rows to follow. I continued the odd K4 with no break, moving them around as necessary. Sometimes I cables all four stiches at once on every alternate row, sometimes less frequently. When one column met another I crossed them, mostly in one go. Once I had three meeting and I interwove them.

It looks odd but he likes it and that's all that matters :-)

He's just gone shopping, I'm supposed to be in the bath, I'll take a picture when I get home but it might not be put up today, we're preparing to go on a falconry weekend in the Highlands.

Mary

Thanks much Richard; Aud sent it to me as well. Much appreciated. Merri