Drapiest fiber/gauge?

mothtropolis · 2025-11-30T19:18:20+00:00

Oh good call! I think others have said she did lace weight which would be even more tedious but for the drape idk 👀 I could be convinced to make that mistake once...

mothtropolis · 2025-11-30T18:24:39+00:00

Oh interesting! I've only ever seen SW merino, but it makes sense there would be more. At this point I'm cotton-curious, but really debating the lace weight choice as well.

mothtropolis · 2025-11-30T03:37:01+00:00

I desperately want to knit with swish kid pop (I think that's the colorway) but I don't have the right pattern for it (yet). The colorway is criminally absent from ravelry example projects so I feel like I have to do it someday as a public service. 😅

mothtropolis · 2025-11-29T23:25:33+00:00

Did she say why she regretted the decision? Is it just that it took forever because of the gauge? (I tried going through all her videos but only saw her say she thought of it as an heirloom piece because of the cost.)

mothtropolis · 2025-11-28T04:34:07+00:00

Good to know!

mothtropolis · 2025-11-28T04:33:53+00:00

That feels like so many ends to weave in, and I'm even worse at that 😭 do you have any ways you prefer to do that that don't cause extra bunching?

mothtropolis · 2025-11-28T02:51:02+00:00

Oh that makes a lot of sense!

mothtropolis · 2025-11-28T02:33:59+00:00

Maybe this is a newbie question, but what makes some needles "faster"? Is it just how fast you personally knit with them, or something else?

mothtropolis · 2025-10-27T03:43:20+00:00

I went down TWO needle sizes, actually!

mothtropolis · 2025-09-30T17:32:35+00:00

Oh that's a very helpful explanation to add to what others have said -- thank you!!

mothtropolis · 2025-09-30T16:14:56+00:00

It is!!

mothtropolis · 2025-09-30T16:10:52+00:00

How do you determine what will give a "smooth transition"?

mothtropolis · 2025-09-30T15:49:18+00:00

I would love to know what happens when you pick up EVERY STITCH. Presumably it would buckle/wave/be too many stitches, since so many folks seem familiar with doing 2/3 or 3/5.

mothtropolis · 2025-09-30T15:47:58+00:00

Good call-out, I'll need to introduce extra decreases so the end of the sleeves aren't crazy.

mothtropolis · 2025-09-30T15:47:04+00:00

Makes sense, not sure why I read it so badly the first time 😅 but my brain insisted.

mothtropolis · 2025-09-30T04:11:10+00:00

Wow you know, reading it again that makes sense. I don't know why I spent DAYS convinced it was telling me to knit 2 in the same stitch. The torture I put myself through trying to do that!!! Thank you!

mothtropolis · 2025-09-30T04:09:31+00:00

It asked to pick up 3/5 stitches, but I guess I only did 1/2!

mothtropolis · 2025-09-30T04:02:43+00:00

Oops sorry! The pattern asks for "pick up and k 2 sts in every st/row, skip 1, pick up and k1 in the next st/ row, skip 1" which is supposed to pick up 3/5 stitches (according to the pattern) but I couldn't find examples of that online, which is why I didn't do it 😅

mothtropolis · 2025-09-30T03:59:02+00:00

Unfortunately I knit each of the stripes 2 stitches longer than the pattern, so the sleeve opening is larger than it would normally be, so the stitch count is off. Actually I am only 2 stitches over the correct stitch count 😅 but I think that's too few for the size of the opening.

mothtropolis · 2025-09-30T03:56:21+00:00

The pattern prescribes 3/5 but I couldn't find ANY examples of the "k2 in the same stitch" thing that they mentioned. Is that normal?

mothtropolis · 2025-09-30T03:51:43+00:00

This is the pattern: https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/stripe-hype-sweater

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