One sleeve at a time

If some knitting can be done in pairs, I usually do so. I always knit socks in pairs, and I almost always do the same for sleeves. This time I changed my mind. The sleeves are simple enough and could be done two at a time, but I have several projects going where I’m pulling from both ends of a wound ball and I get tired of untwisting it, so I decided to just do these one at a time and avoid that on this project. Much of the raglan/yoke shaping is tracked row by row in the pattern, so it will be easy to keep things identical.

This sweater is making me long for colder weather.

18 Comments

PamelaR on August 20, 2014 at 7:21 pm

Thank you for showing the back. I was wondering how the cables and the rest of the top went together. I’m a very new knitter so maybe this is why I couldn’t see what was going on. How hard is it to make sleeves longer. Being over 65, I like to cover up my …ahem… flabby upper arms. Is it a big deal on most tops?

Cassy on August 21, 2014 at 4:09 pm

Making sleeves longer is an easy alteration on this pattern. After you start the sleeve you can just keep going as long as you like. I will probably add an inch or so.

clemensnp on August 21, 2014 at 3:56 am

Gorgeous! And makes me want to knit again after a summer of sewing. What is this pattern? Catherine x

Cassy on August 21, 2014 at 4:11 pm

The pattern is called Coda. You can find it on Ravelry.
- clemensnp on September 11, 2014 at 12:24 pm
  
  Thanks, I’ll look it up!

Creatively Motivated on August 21, 2014 at 5:58 am

Beautiful work. I may have missed this in a previous yarn post, but what kind of yarn and colourway are you using?

-Nizzy

Cassy on August 21, 2014 at 4:10 pm

It’s Cascade 220 in Summer Sky

Angela Hickman on August 21, 2014 at 8:37 am

I love this sweater so much. I can’t wait to see it finished! For the first time ever, I knit my sleeves two-at-a-time for my sskal project. It felt like a slog at the time, but I am so pleased to have them both finished and perfectly matched.