Tag: OAL2015
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A Modified Stretchy Bind-Off
Although the ribbing on Vianne is super stretchy, it’s easy to find yourself with a waist that’s too tight if you use the wrong bind-off method. On the original sample, I tried the basic chain bind-off, and it was a really bad choice. It looked nice but was nowhere close to as stretchy as I…
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Casting On Vianne’s Underarms
My camera is currently out of commission, so this blog post is a bit later than planned and illustrated! Before you cast on the underarm stitches, your cardigan doesn’t look a whole lot like a cardigan if you lay it out flat, but that’s going to change here. You’re going to knit across the left…
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Picking Up Stitches for Vianne’s Fronts
When you pick up and knit the stitches for Vianne’s fronts, you want to pick up one stitch per stitch along the cast-on edge. This allows the lace panels on the front to line up as close as possible with the lace panels back. Here’s where you should be picking up stitches and the direction…
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Vianne Resources
I’ve written a lot of post on knitting sweaters over the years, and many of them could be helpful if you’d like to modify your Vianne or if you get stuck at any point. Here they are in one handy place! What size sweater should I knit? How to modify a cropped sweater to be…
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Casting On Vianne
Let’s do this! Since the shoulder gives a lot of structure to the sweater, I’d recommend using a sturdier cast-on method like the cabled cast-on or long tail cast-on. I chose the cabled cast-on method for my sweater. If you’re not confident about being able to read your knitting or you’re newer to working with…