The sleeves were fairly easily come by. You start the piece with a strip a few inches wide and five feet long. Sew the ends together; that's the bottom. Now pick up a couple hundred sts around the top of the mesh and work upward from there, in the round.
When you get to the armpits it stops being in the round. From there up, the front and back are separate. For each of them, you cast on a bunch of sts on either side of the existing ones, and knit the same bloody lace pattern over a wider swath. Those wider bits are the sleeves.
At the end, you need to sew together the top edges of each sleeve and the bottom ditto. I found that grafting the tops (Kitchener st) as tho it were all straight stockinette worked just fine. The concave crease visible in the photo was accidentally introduced in the blocking.
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Date: 2008-08-31 08:24 pm (UTC)When you get to the armpits it stops being in the round. From there up, the front and back are separate. For each of them, you cast on a bunch of sts on either side of the existing ones, and knit the same bloody lace pattern over a wider swath. Those wider bits are the sleeves.
At the end, you need to sew together the top edges of each sleeve and the bottom ditto. I found that grafting the tops (Kitchener st) as tho it were all straight stockinette worked just fine. The concave crease visible in the photo was accidentally introduced in the blocking.