{"id":39,"date":"2006-12-23T17:36:43","date_gmt":"2006-12-23T21:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/?p=39"},"modified":"2016-10-14T12:23:45","modified_gmt":"2016-10-14T16:23:45","slug":"sweet-sweater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/sweet-sweater\/","title":{"rendered":"sweet sweater"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the Fall 2006\u00a0issue of Crochet me<\/a>, there was a crochet-along\u00a0to make\u00a0a Sweet sweater. I really wanted to participate, but I had to finish my afghan first, and then I needed to give my wrist a break from crochet for a while, so I\u00a0bought some yarn\u00a0but didn’t get started. Now the official Sweet crochet-along is finished, but that’s okay…<\/p>\n

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I had bought 4 balls of Lion Brand Homespun in Regency\u00a0because I wanted something bulky enough to crochet up quickly and keep me warm, but I can’t tolerate wool against my skin, so\u00a0I needed a soft acrylic\u00a0yarn. I knew I wanted to adapt the pattern to be long-sleeved, but still reasonably fitted. I used a size J hook and half double crochet stitch.<\/p>\n

First attempt: I noted the comments from others who completed the CAL and found the neck opening to be too small, so I started off with a 7″ measurement at the back of the neck.\u00a0I had crocheted down from the shoulders to the bust and completed one and a half sleeves before I noticed that the width of the body was several sizes too large for me. I decided to write it off as a “practice” and start again (reusing the yarn from the first one as I needed it).<\/p>\n

Second attempt: I used a 5″ neck measurement and\u00a0a deeper V in the front, and it worked out much better. When I got to\u00a0the bust, it was still a bit big, even\u00a0after some decreases at\u00a0each side, so\u00a0I switched to an I hook down to the waist, and then back to a J again. I edged the neckline, cuffs and bottom edge with my new favourite edging, reverse single crochet. The finished sweater used exactly three balls of Homespun.<\/p>\n

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I would definitely make\u00a0another one of these at some point, with some variations in yarn and stitch. The top-down construction is very clever as you can try it for fit at any point and adjust it as you go. I can’t believe I’ve crocheted a wearable article of clothing! It’s really warm and cosy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the Fall 2006\u00a0issue of Crochet me, there was a crochet-along\u00a0to make\u00a0a Sweet sweater. I really wanted to participate, but I had to finish my afghan first, and then I needed to give my wrist a break from crochet for a while, so I\u00a0bought some yarn\u00a0but didn’t get started. Now the official Sweet crochet-along is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crochet"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}