Re: Imagi-knitting and need some advice
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Just "starting" to read your post ... got me down a rabbit hole of how MUCH I enjoy the Engineering Mindset of the Fair isle/Norgi/deepDive Thinking Knitters who FEARlessly plan and knit and re-do ... rinse, wash, repeat :-) THANKS! erica in sunny and peaceFULL jerome Arizona ... the only fighting in town is ALWAYS the humming birds - they are a scientifically predictable constant :-) cosmicCenter Sedona, to the East of me, is throat punching and setting their own hair on fire. My version of entitled is WAY different than your WRONG version of entitled ... and I can prove it!!! So There!!!?
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On Sun, May 10, 2020 at 7:17 AM Jaya Srikrishnan < ermabom@...> wrote: I¡¯ve been imagi-knitting (aka planning) my version of the Big Swan Bohus design. This has black and brown swan ¡®feathers¡¯ around the neck in a yoke and at the cuffs. The original design is a boat neck pullover. Boat necks look awful on me and I have a number of Bohus pullovers already (and some non-Bohus ones).
This is one of my favorite designs and I want to make a very classic cardigan that I can wear for years to come.
But I don¡¯t want the button band to interrupt the yoke design. Another Bohus knitter has done a version of the Large Lace Collar with a facing that she knit at the same time as the body.? I think I want to do the same BUT I also don¡¯t want ribbing at the bottom and neck. At first I thought I¡¯d do a hem but the thought of trying to knit buttonholes in both the hem and the facing and the front at the same time (top and bottom would have this problem with a mitred hem/facing) and trying to position it correctly is daunting.?
I then moved on to doing an icord hem and neckband (I love the effect of the black at the neck) and doing the folded facing with buttonholes in it. This will work if I start with a provisional CO and then do an icord BO where I BO the facing at the same time as the body at the neck and hem.
BUT, I suddenly had this brilliant idea. I got it from WeaveKnitWear from the top that I am using as a base for my hemp top. In that book, the author has you knit a strip with buttonholes all the way down (it is essentially a strip of buttonholes) which gets sewn on to the front and you use the closest hole to where you position the button. No planning of buttonholes! It also results in invisible buttons when the tunic is buttoned up because the band is sewn to the underside of the overlapping front.
I don¡¯t want to do that on my Bohus but what I thought was that I could put the buttonholes only on the facing so that the buttons are hidden. If I wear it unbuttoned, the buttons will show but if I button it up, they won¡¯t.
What do you think? I think this will work and will be less effort overall than a folded over hem at the neck and bottom. I tried to think of all different ways to do a hem where I wouldn¡¯t have the double bulk of the fold and the facing at the top and bottom and the only other choice is to fold over the facing and make the hem at the top and bottom start after the facing width is accounted for. Then the facing would fold over and be stitched down. And the hems would fold over and be sewn to the edge of the facing. But then I wouldn¡¯t have a fold at the facing and that would look different from the rest of the hem - right in the front where it is most visible.?
Thoughts and other ideas are welcome. I want to start swatching so am trying to get everything down that I need to swatch to do the planning right. --
Jaya
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erica