I've restyled my blog a little, not completely there yet but for the moment it's working. In my absence I've been sewing and knitting and will try to catch up a little. Quite a bit of what I did in sewing was basics like t-shirts, summer trousers etc. I'll skip those and in the upcoming posts I'll highlight a few more interesting garments.
This post is about a sweater (jumper in UK English) I knitted. Like the sweater I showed last year it's knitted with the ziggurat technique, developed by Asa Tricosa.
I simply love this way of knitting a sweater. It gives good opportunity to fit while knitting but most important: look at the way the armholes/sleeves are done. The definition of a seamline, but they are knitted (top down) at the same time as the front and back of the sweater.
I incorporated the pattern Piper by Carol Sunday in a ziggurat (with a few minor adaptions). I loved combining this. Doing that is certainly keeping your mind of other worries!
Hello, nice to see you again. :-)
ReplyDeleteIt's nice to be back :)
DeleteEcht prachtig breiwerk zeg. En leuk om je weer terug te zien. Ik lees de blogs in mijn reader van Wordpress dus ik zie normaal gesproken je lay-out niet, maar ik zal eens kijken
ReplyDeleteOok niet erg als je de lay-out niet ziet, je ziet blijkbaar mijn berichten/foto's. Dank voor je compliment.
DeleteLove your jumper! The cable design is so interesting. Lovely to see you blogging again as I have missed you.
ReplyDeleteThank you, I loved the pattern.
DeleteHello! Nice to see you in my inbox again Sigrid. I absolutely love this sweater! I recently bought Asa's book, but I have not had the time to start a sweater based on this technique. I would love to hear about your process for incorporating this technique into a pattern, when and if you are inclined to do so. Look forward to seeing new posts.
ReplyDeleteThank you. I would recommend knitting one of the designs without incorporating too much details, just a center front/back detail for example as in my first try. That's not too difficult as it's easy to calculate the center of the stitches and work a not too wide pattern from there.
DeleteRight now I'm trying to incorporate a complex cable off center, into the shoulder and that's not easy. Hope to get there but I'm not the one to instruct probably.
Its great to see you back :) You are so clever with that jumper (we call them that here in Australia too). It must have taken a lot of patience.
ReplyDeleteThank you, it's so nice to be back and see familiar names in the comments :)
DeleteI really enjoy reading your blog, Sigrid. It is a gorgeous sweater that you have made. I am still working on learning better knitting skills and you are such an inspiration with your sewing and knitting for yourself.
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