Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Random Acts of Knitting Kindess


Everyone kept telling my how lucky I would be after the photo shoot for the book and then after all the LYS visits that the garments I knitted and that my dear talented friends knitted for me for the book, would be mind to wear and cherish. HA!

All the garments pictured in the book are in mediums and yikes, even some smalls. First, with the time deadlines that a book brings, it's so much faster to get things done when you do them up smaller. Second, most of the models who volunteered to for the photo shoot were smaller guys. And third, I don't think my sweet and generous friends who did some of the knitting would have offered to do it if everything had been sized for me, in an 48 wit extra extra long sleeves!

All that said, Barbara Fabian of Sit-N-Knit, did knit the 9 foot scarf in sock weight yarn in size 5 needles. Bless her for that.

So unless I lose 65 pounds and shrink from 6'4" to 5'9 nothing we knitted as samples is going into my wardrobe. Sigh. So I started up the henley in my size with Rowan Wool Cotton.

You'll remember from a pervious post that it was supposed to be for Mark, but he lost some weight recently and it was fitting me better. Great for me! Until I ran out of yarn rounding the final bend and beginning the second sleeve. I didn't think it was huge problem since the yarn is still in production. But the new skeins were a different dye lot and the color was way off. Then to my rescue, Pam (aka 2muchfun) on ravelry.com traded me the 2 skeins in her stash for 2 of the off color ones I recently bought. Hers were also a different dye lot but they were much closer to the original. Thanks Pam, you saved the sweater and inspired me. I'm going to start putting my stash up on ravelry.com and if anyone ever needs anything, give me a shout.


13 comments:

  1. That's part of the beauty of Ravelry, isn't it? Love that place ... Real community is Awesome. :D

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  2. It looks fabulous, Bruce. Congratulations on the book! I'm looking forward to seeing it!

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  3. Thanks again for the Book...I still can't decide what to start first!

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  4. Bruce, you look most fetching. I didn't think it was possible to have a handknitted sweater that made you look lean! :)

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  5. Aww, come on, just cause Scott Haney made you famous and you are just too busy with your impressive (yeah I got it!) book, dopesn't mean you may neglect us loyal followers of this blog!!! New pics and NEWS pul-leese!!!

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  7. Yes, there is some miscommunication in that pattern for the vest. The number of stitches are actually correct. On Page 36
    The location of the third chart is incorrect. It should appear just below the sentence on page 36 that begins with “Next Row (RS):...”, and just above the line that begins with “Work even until armhole...” If you move that sentence to the right place you'll see that you have more to do before you have your final stitch count. Hope this helps and if you ever find any other issues, don't hesitate to ask or to check for errata at...

    http://www.abramsbooks.com/stc_craft_errata_knits_men_want.html

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  8. Hi Bruce,
    I'm trying to make the "basic cardigan, zipper" for my husband, and have run into a place where there seems to be some missing info in the pattern. On both versions, in the right front, after the instructions on how to set up the panels, there is no indication of how long to knit the piece (common sense would tell us that it's the same as for the back) and also no indication of how much to decrease for the armhole. I don't want to make it the exact same as for the back, because front and back armscyes are often different...it picks up at "work even until armhole is 7", working armhole shaping as for back". So now I'm thinking that it's the same as the back, but the length info before the armhole is still missing. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Maybe I'm just confused!
    thanks,
    Joy

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  9. Joy, thanks for writing with your questions.

    Okay, on page 47 you set up your panels.
    on page 48 the pattern states..."work even until arm hole measures x(xxx)" working arm hole shaping as for back. that requires you to knit the same length on the front panels to the arm hole as you did for the back. so they match exactly. then you start the neck shaping when your arm hole gets to the required length asked for.

    hope that helped. and if you're still confused, the best thing to do is get hands on help. your local yarn store (or where ever you bought your yarn for this project) can probably give you 10 minutes of help free. and after that most stores offer private lessons in half hour increments.

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  10. Wow, so glad I found you here. I'm making the Raglan-Sleeved Henley, size 48, gauge 4. On page 58, at the top, it indicates I should have 108 stitches on the needle. Then, in "Shaping Neck," it says that I continue and CO 2 sts each neck edge 0 times, so I skipped that. Then CO 3 sts each neck edge 0 times, so I skipped that. Then it says to CO 8 sts each neck edge once. Total stitches should be 132. To me, it doesn't make sense. If I started with 108 stitches and CO 8 sts each neck edge once, I only get 124 stitches (108 plus 8 x 2 = 124). Am I interpreting something wrong? Thanks so much for helping straighten me out!!
    Susan

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  11. Dear Anonymous

    As you posted anonymously, I have no way of responding to your individual issue. Please let me know how to reach you so I can help you through your sweater math problems.

    Thanks!
    --bruce

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  12. Hi, Bruce. I am the anonymous blogger who asked for help with the Raglan-sleeved Henley. I figured out where my problem was myself, but now I'm stuck again!

    I am still on page 58, and have worked the "Begin Placket" section. In that section, the instructions call for ribbing on the first and last 8 stitches. However, it doesn't appear as if the ribbing continues when with the Buttonhole Row. is the ribbing supposed to continue for the rest of the Placket?

    Thanks for your help.
    Susan

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  13. Susan
    The entire placket is in rib.
    the placket is only 8 stitches wide - one side overlaps the other.
    Not sure how to help you from here.
    --bruce

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