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1 | Pinteresting Sweater Recipe Calculator | To use this, download and it and enter your calculations. Let me know if you have any questions | Last update: 6/24 | Made notes about the front side angle and wrap text to make easier to read | ||||||||
2 | Enter your values here in all blue boxes. Mine are pre-populated. In pattern, all green rows are calculated. | |||||||||||
3 | No guarantees this is perfect so use it as your own risk but ask me I'd be glad to help if I can | |||||||||||
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5 | Gauge | 4 | stitches per inch | |||||||||
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7 | 6 | rows per inch | ||||||||||
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9 | Diagram 6 | |||||||||||
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11 | Values for Diagram | 33 | A | Bust measurement. Measure your bust under your underarm | ||||||||
12 | in inches | 30 | B | Waist measurement. Measure your waist. To get natural waist bend to the right, you can see your breakpoint | ||||||||
13 | 40 | C | Hip/booty. This is a long sweater that cover the widest point of your butt so measure aound that | |||||||||
14 | 15 | D | Across back. Measure shoulder to shoulder where your sleeves will start. Easy to do on a sweater | |||||||||
15 | 7 | E | Underarm to elbow | |||||||||
16 | 10 | F | Elbow to Cuff | |||||||||
17 | 7.5 | G | Waist to booty | |||||||||
18 | 7.5 | H | Underarm/bust to waist | |||||||||
19 | 4 | I | Front shoulder. Where your sleeve connects to base of your neck | |||||||||
20 | 53 | J | Cable band length. Measure from waist, diagonal to booty line, around the back and then up to the front middle again | |||||||||
21 | 10 | K | Elbow circumference | |||||||||
22 | 6 | L | Wrist circumference | |||||||||
23 | 14 | M | Arm circumference at underarm | |||||||||
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25 | Cable Band | |||||||||||
26 | The cable band is a nice small, easy project so start in on a spare needle if you have one so you can carry it around and work on it as time permits throughout the project especially when your sweater gets too bulky to be a travel project. A large part of my cable was done riding the NYC subway. | |||||||||||
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28 | Cast on 35 stitches | |||||||||||
29 | Rows 1, 3, 5, 7: K6, P3, K3, P3, K4, P3, K4, P3, K3, P3 | |||||||||||
30 | Rows 2, 4, 6, 8, 10: K3, P3, K3, P4, K3, P4, K3, P3, K3, P6 | |||||||||||
31 | Row 9: K6, P3, K3, P3, Put 2 stiches on holder in front, Knit 2, Knit 2 from needle, P3, Knit 2, Knit 2 from needle, P3, K3, P3 | |||||||||||
32 | If you prefer a chart of this see Diagram 3 Cable Chart | |||||||||||
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34 | Knit for | 53 | inches | |||||||||
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36 | Don't cast off but put on waste yarn so you can wrap it around you as part of the finishing to ensure it's long enough and add more rows if needed. . | |||||||||||
37 | I also realized when I tried it on vs. what I had measured, I seemed to have “grown” and needed to lay off the ice cream for a bit. | |||||||||||
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39 | The cable band when blocked will be about 7" wide. | |||||||||||
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42 | Back | |||||||||||
43 | I did this top down | |||||||||||
44 | Provisional Cast on | 60 | stitches | |||||||||
45 | St stitch. Work even for 6 1/2 inches, ending on a WS row | I did not size this differently but if you want to adjust knit until you are about 1.5 inches from your underarm before shaping armholes | ||||||||||
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47 | Shape armholes: | |||||||||||
48 | On that final WS row at end, CO 2 stitches | (using backward cast on) | ||||||||||
49 | Knit 1 row, at end CO 2 stitches | (using backward cast on) | ||||||||||
50 | Purl 1 row, at end CO 2 stitches | (using backward cast on) | ||||||||||
51 | Knit 1 row, at end CO 2 stitches | (using backward cast on) | ||||||||||
52 | Purl 1 row | Total 68 stitches | ||||||||||
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56 | Waist Shaping: | |||||||||||
57 | You are now shaping from your underarm to your waist. I needed to reduce 3 inches overall (front and back) to get to my waist size. | |||||||||||
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59 | On the seam edges | |||||||||||
60 | Decrease 1 stich on both sides every | 15 | rows | 3 | times | |||||||
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62 | Hip/Booty Shaping: | |||||||||||
63 | Increase 1 stich on both sides | 4.5 | rows | 10 | times | |||||||
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65 | Work even until work measures | 23 | inches | |||||||||
66 | Cast off | |||||||||||
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68 | (The back will be a total of 30 inches. It is the back + the 7 inches of cable band) | |||||||||||
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70 | Front | |||||||||||
71 | Carefully unravel provisional cast on edge for back | |||||||||||
72 | Put | 16 | stitches from each side on needles | |||||||||
73 | Leave middle | 28 | stitches on waste yarn | |||||||||
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75 | St. stitch. Work even for 6 1/2 inches, ending on a WS row | |||||||||||
76 | When you reach this point, you will be shaping the armholes and the neck at the same time | |||||||||||
77 | Shape armholes: | |||||||||||
78 | On each arm edge, on the final WS row, CO 2 stitches. | |||||||||||
79 | Next row, at end CO 2 stitches | |||||||||||
80 | Next row, at end CO 2 stitches | |||||||||||
81 | Next row, at end CO 2 stitches | |||||||||||
82 | Next row, Purl 1 row | |||||||||||
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84 | Neck shaping: | |||||||||||
85 | Increase 1 stitch at neck edge every row for 14 rows. | |||||||||||
86 | After these are done you can now join the 2 front pieces and work together | |||||||||||
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88 | St until work measure | 15.5 | inches | |||||||||
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90 | Waist Shaping: | |||||||||||
91 | You are now shaping from your underarm to your waist. I needed to reduce 3 inches overall (front and back) to get to my waist size. | |||||||||||
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93 | On the seam edges | |||||||||||
94 | Decrease 1 stich on both sides every | 15 | rows | 3 | times | |||||||
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96 | Hip/Booty Shaping: | |||||||||||
97 | Increase 1 stich on both sides | 4.5 | rows | 10 | times | |||||||
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100 | At this point your front left side is as long as it will be. You will now be creating the diagonal |