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October 30, 2011 / KristenMakes

After the Chart. Hey there KAL-ers!  Thanks so much for the congratulations on my new job, you are so great!  And also a huge thanks for responding to the check-in, it is really good to know where everyone is.  I owe everyone a huge apology for dropping the ball in the Flickr group.  I just saw a few threads of questions that I hadn’t responded to.  I’ve had a bit of log-in difficulties with yahoo/flickr: I deleted my Yahoo account when it got hacked (I never used it anyway) and neglected to first direct my Flickr login to my Gmail account so now I can’t get in!  I’ve been dealing with the help centre but things are moving slowly.  So I ended up making a new account in the meantime, so you can see me on Flickr under username kristenorme.  Excuses aside, I should have been better about paying attention to your queries and discussions, but you guys are great it discussing and figuring things out when your Knitter/KALhoster is AWOL!  Anyway, I’m back on it in Flickr so feel free to continue posting you Questions there, or email me of course (email@example.com)!

OK, back to our Cadence.   So most of us have completed or almost completed the lace chart, and some have even continued beyond the chart to knitting even with the sleeve/body increase rounds!  I’m going to talk a little bit about how to do that if you haven’t started that task already, and then move on later in the post to separating the sleeves from the body (it’s not as scary as it sounds!).

Alright, now you already have the chart from the Lace post (if not, click the link to the lace post and find the Excel chart download link, called “chart_all sizes”).  Now after you have completed the LACE, when you have the Excel chart open to the tab that is your correct size, scroll right till you see this: Now how you can use this chart to your benefit is to tick off every round as you complete it (as I have done, above).  One the numbered rounds where there is no increase, Knit every stitch and tick off the number as you complete the round.  On rounds where there is a Body or Sleeve increase (consult the pattern or the Lace Post on how to do an increase round) follow accordingly, increasing as stated in either the sleeve or body.  This chart (derived from the pattern itself) tells you how to evenly space your increases according to your size.

Before moving on, though, here is a close-up of what my sleeve increases look like (I did the size S, in which there are no body increases): If you are having trouble reading where the increases are in that photograph, I’ve dissected it for you: Yes, I did forget an increase there!  Whoops!

Now a few of you have mentioned your increasing occurring at different times than the pattern suggests (you renegade pattern deviaters!).  That can be fine, I just recommend trying the jumper on as you go to ensure that it still fits.  You can do that by placing half the stitches onto a spare circular needle or waste yarn and pop it over your head (which really you should be doing anyway).

This is what mine looked like when I completed all my Sleeve and Body increases: You want to make sure that the sleeves fit comfortably with enough ease to move and that the armhole is low enough that the underarm will be comfortable for you.  Remember usually with jumpers you may wear one or two layers underneath, so ease and roominess are important.  If you do not think there is enough armhole depth, knit a few more rounds and try it on again until you are happy with it.  You can pinch the fabric together under your arms to simulate what it will feel like, but even then your fingers will be in the way, so it is just a guide.  Now, if you feel, when pinching, that the sleeves are too tight or the body is too tight you can knit a few more rounds and insert a few more increase rounds in there, but only if you need more armhole depth too.  If the armhole depth is fine, but the sleeves and body are too tight, you can fix that in the next step, when you are separating the body from the sleeves.  Once you are happy with the fit (or you plan to adjust the fit in the next step, note that the pattern also specifies how many more rounds to complete before separating the sleeves from the body so be sure to complete those rounds:

All Sizes:

When all increase rounds for both sleeves and body have been worked, there will be 186[214, 230, 254, 278, 302, 326] sts: 35[39, 43, 47, 51, 55, 61] sts for each sleeve, and 58[68, 72, 80, 88, 96, 102] sts each for front and back.

K 2[1, 0, 4, 0, 4, 1] rounds.

OK, so the next step is to separate the sleeves from the body.  We are going from having all our stitches on one needle to having our stitches separated into 3 sections: The pattern explains this step (please read the whole section before proceeding):

Divide Sleeves From Body:
Next Round: K to first marker, remove marker, place next 35[39, 43, 47, 51, 55, 61] sts (all sts to second marker) on stitch holder or waste yarn, leaving marker, in place; k all sts to third marker, remove marker, place last 35[39, 43, 47, 51, 55, 61] sts on stitch holder or waste yarn, leaving end-of-round marker in place; join to continue working in the round. 116[136, 144, 160, 176, 192, 204] sts.

I’ve shown this step in pictures for you: If you need to add more ease to the sleeves and body, it can be done in step 3:  before bringing the yarn across to the next body portion, remove the marker, use the yarn to Cast-On 1, 2 or 3 stitches (depending on how much ease you want to add, 1 st for a little, 3 for a lot), place the marker, Cast-On the same number of stitches (1, 2 or 3 – this is so that you have added an even amount of ease to both body portions), and continue on to knitting the next body portion.  Later on, when you are knitting the sleeves, you can Cast-on in the the same manner (or you can Pick up and Knit) the same number of stitches you added to the body so that you have added the same amount of ease to the sleeves as the body.  Keeping the amount of ease added to the body & sleeves the same ensures a nice even underarm.

Now the rest of the pattern should be a breeze compared to everything you’ve just done!  All that is left is knitting the body according to the pattern, and the sleeves.  You can attempt the next step alone of course, but the body and sleeves will be the subject of the next KAL post.  I have decided that for my Cadence, I hope to have enough yarn for a longer, tunic-y jumper so I will knit the sleeves first, so that all the yarn that is leftover can go to making to body as long as the yarn I have allows.  The pattern goes on to the body next, but it really does not matter which you do first.

Best of luck to you!  Let me know if you have any questions or problems, you guys are AMAZING for getting this far – huge pats on the back to you, and cake and tea for rewards!






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