Kate's new sweater

[davidlevine]

She just finished it day before yesterday and asked me to post this photo.

Comments

[billeyler.livejournal.com]

It's actually quite nice! Kudos to the Katemeister!

[deedop.livejournal.com]

That looks so comfy, and I love the sleeves!

[cynthia1960.livejournal.com]

Was this the sweater Kate was working on during Worldcon?

[anghara.livejournal.com]

Impressive...

[maryrobinette.livejournal.com]

Lovely!

[lggriffiths.livejournal.com]

Is that Henry VII from Alice Starmore's "Tudor Roses"?

[coffeeem.livejournal.com]

It's full of leafy knitted-lace goodness!

[scarlettina.livejournal.com]

Lovely!

[lisatheriveter.livejournal.com]

Oh, Kate! That is stunning! I love the sleeves too - so graceful and flattering.

[csinman.livejournal.com]

I always see her working on things, but I believe this is the first time I've seen a finished item. It's gorgeous!

[coreolis.livejournal.com]

Kudos, Kate! That is simply gorgeous!

Kate's New Sweater

[ladyjestocost.livejournal.com]

Is gorgeous.

[camillealexa.livejournal.com]

I *love* the sleeves.

[haddayr.livejournal.com]

Wow. This is AMAZING. The color, the weight, the obvious intricacies of the different patterns. I also love the color.

BRILLIANT.

[kateyule.livejournal.com]

Worldcon, and everywhere else I've been since early June.

[kateyule.livejournal.com]

No, the pattern is the Wakame Lace Tunic from Interweave Knits, summer issue.

construction

[kateyule.livejournal.com]

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.

[wild-patience.livejournal.com]

It's fabulous. I've decided I'm hopeless at knitting lace, so I'm jealous.