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Japan Sleeves - completed and project notes

This jumper felt like it took forever, but actually only took two weeks. Time seems to be standing still right now.

It was largely an enjoyable knit, although I had some drama and made a couple of changes.

 The first change was I decided to cast on for the extra small and then change the numbers up, so that the arms are shorter, but the body has the numbers for the medium.

 I also decided to cast on fewer stitches for the neck, so it isn't as wide as the pattern. I didn't do maths and work out how that would impact on my overall stitch count.

 Once I finished the sleeves and yoke (which are knit all in one) I seamed the sleeves. Joji suggests doing this at the end, but I wanted to try it on, which turned out to be a very good thing, since the sleeves were skin tights. I ripped out the "bottom sleeve shaping" and added quite a lot to the width of the sleeves.

 I then ran out of contrast colour. You can see the bottom two stripes are in a plain grey that I had the dyer - Melbourne City Dyeworks dye up for me. Then I was scared it would be too short, and that more of the plain grey stripes would look weird, so I put a really chunky ribbing on the bottom.

 Despite my fears, the sizing ended up just about right, with nice long sleeves, although I would have made the jumper just a bit longer if I could have. 

 It's a bright, casual, cheerful jumper, perfect for this cold, grey time we are having right now. Cosy jumpers are definitly the way to go, and I have a couple more in my queue.
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  1. Sonia08 April, 2020

    Your grellow Japan Sleeves looks so great, I'm looking forward to finishing mine!

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