Seams
To answer a couple of questions about the cashmere sweater…
Q. Why spend months knitting a plain gray sweater that you could have bought at a store?
A. Because I couldn't have bought it at a store exactly the way I wanted it: tight fit, extra long sleeves, rolled edges, the exact shade of gray…
And beside all that, because I enjoyed knitting it, at least for 80% of the time. :)
Q. Can you show pictures of the seams?
A. Not the best pictures, but here they are.
Q. Any seaming tips?
A. Ha! Seaming tips from the queen of seam procrastination?
I don't know if this will be any help, but I knit the sides of the sweater with a selvedge, just a single purl stitch at the end of each stockinette row. When Ivar sewed the pieces together he inserted the needle into the first stitch *after* the selvedge stitch. I think there is a name for this technique, but I don't know it.
Maybe someone else can fill in the blanks?
Comments
Looks great on you :)
Posted by: May | October 25, 2008 2:39 PM
Wow! What a beautiful sweater, and it looks so professional, too. Nice seaming; I get too impatient to get results like that. Years ago when I first learned to knit, I wondered why anyone would spend so much time knitting such a fine-gauged sweater that they could just buy, but in recent years I've come to appreciate why. Love the fit and sleeve length.
Posted by: Lydia | October 25, 2008 2:41 PM
Beautiful seams! It looks fabulous on you!
Posted by: Lorette | October 25, 2008 2:45 PM
Gorgeous!!! 3 strands of cobweb on zero's! Wow! It would take me 2 years to knit that! It is perfect!
Posted by: Liz419 | October 25, 2008 3:12 PM
So. Gorgeous. The model, the sweater, the yarn. Wow. I will have to track back and see what your gauge / pattern was as I have a laceweight sweater in my dreams now.
Posted by: Lisa | October 25, 2008 5:39 PM
All good reasons to make your own sweater. It looks great on you and that is worth every stitch.
Posted by: Angelika | October 25, 2008 7:09 PM
Beautiful job - and that sweater looks so lovely on you. Nice job, and it shows the importance of finishing things RIGHT for a sweater that is most flattering and attractive.
Posted by: Chelle | October 25, 2008 7:45 PM
Perfection! You are as beautiful as your gray cats!
Posted by: Sylvia | October 25, 2008 9:08 PM
Beautiful Francesca, beautiful! The fit is great, the colour suits you, and the knitting is so even and nice. Bonus: good looking seams.
I'm afraid the ribby cardi I'm knitting will take about as long to be finished as your cashmere, I'm totally unable to find knitting time rigt now. But everything is fine, it's just the time monter that decided my knitting time has to be consumed by other things.
Posted by: Maud | October 25, 2008 9:40 PM
Yay, it's done! And it looks fabulous! (Three strands of yarn on size 0s???)
So are you going to try a top-down seamless for your next sweater? ;-)
Posted by: MJ | October 26, 2008 12:10 AM
Beautiful seams! Perhaps you could call it the Ivar technique?
Posted by: fleegle | October 26, 2008 4:16 AM
I'm just de-lurking to tell you that you have created a great sweater!
Posted by: Andree | October 26, 2008 9:14 PM
It's beautiful!
Posted by: soknitpicky | October 27, 2008 7:30 AM
Beautiful sweater!
Posted by: Rachel | October 27, 2008 11:13 AM
Beautiful! Perfect basic piece that will dress up, dress down and fits you like a dream. You look lovely in it.
Posted by: Claudine | October 27, 2008 11:39 AM
Stunning, and a perfect fit!
By the way, I think you're right...I did read about washing the Colourmart cashmere on your blog. :-)
Posted by: Joanne | October 27, 2008 12:19 PM
it looks SO great on you, and I bet it is REALLY soft!! Wow.
Posted by: MaryjoO | October 29, 2008 4:00 PM