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April 20, 2006

Designing a Sweater (or a Dozen)

One of my classmates was wearing a neat sweater the other day that got me thinking about possibly knitting a sweater, which either means dealing with a pattern or designing one myself.

My experience with patterns so far suggests that I am better off just designing the pattern myself because I'd have to modify any published one so much that it would not save me any time or effort. I don't tend to knit a lot of sweaters, mainly because I don't tend to wear a lot of sweaters, mainly because I live in a temperate climate where it rarely gets really cold. And I have a few really nice sweaters already, some knitted by my mother, some knitted by me, and some purchased, so there's not much call for additional sweaters in my life.

The sweaters I have knit are my own designs, and I like them well enough, though I can't wear them any more because they are wool. So I thought I might make a sweater along the lines of what my classmate was wearing, a monochrome scoop neck with ribbing that came up the body to an empire waist and stockinette above, and ribbing up the sleeves to the same line.

Well, I hate scoop necks, but maybe a square neck? I doodled some designs in my sketchbook, but none of them seems quite right. I present them here for your amusement.

I think this version would look better actually knit, when the ribbing would not be as contrasty.

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I tried redrawing without the lines for ribbing, and came up with this variation, with a colour stripe that goes from arm to arm across the body.

Maybe make the stripe ribbing?

How about just a subtle row of garter or something, to make the empire waist but not be so bold. Also, another type of neckline.

A little too princessy.

Star Trek. Actually, this would make a nice sweater in a good yarn. Sometimes a simple pattern is best.

Back to an earlier design and change the neckline to a boatneck. A bit 1983 for me.

I tried experimenting with drawing cables on there, and got a bit carried away. In general I like simple cable patterns.

This could be good with a better neck/cuff than just ribbing.

Like the original sweater, only with a turtleneck. Promising.

An easy way to get washboard abs. Heh.

Anyway, I'm still playing around with it. My next major step is to get some yarn and knit swatches to try some of these ideas out. But I can't knit right now, because my hand is recovering from a minor RSI issue. So for now it's just little drawings.

Posted by ayse on 04/20/06 at 12:56 AM