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Posted by on August 1, 2006, 2:12 pm
You are a way faster knitter than I am. Wow!!
I have not even thought about the sleeves yet. The last fisherman's
sweater that I knit had 3/4 length sleeves so I could handle trolling
weights under water without getting the cuffs wet. This gansey will be more
for mooching, so the sleeves need to be long enough to cover my wrists even
when I hold my arms straight up. I expect that earlier schoonermen and
dorymen might well have had such longer sleeves, so I am not too worried
about the authenticity.
I expect to reknit the cuffs as they wear.
Everything is being knit on (Extra Virgin) 2.3 mm (spring) steel DPN
supported in a knitting sheath producing 7.3 spi from 960 ypp, 5 ply yarn.
Smaller spring steel needles did not seem to produce a tighter fabric with
this yarn. I think a firmer (handspun) yarn would give a tighter fabric and
is the way to go. (I gotta lean to spin!)
The yarn is cream colored, but I will dye the whole thing navy-blue to
improve its ability to dry while being worn.
Aaron
> Say Aaron, are you planning a classic 7/8 sleeve length for your
> gansey? I got my first sleeve finished early, though I need to rip
> the cuff back to the "fast decreases" round and adjust up my stitch
> count just a bit for a good fit. I did make a 7/8 sleeve, so the
> (short) ribbing lands about 1" above my wristbone. As with the
> wearers of old I think this will be a good length, as during
> sweater-wearing weather I tend to push my sleeves up to about there
> anyhow to keep them out of harm's way.
>
> And as an extra little tidbid, it occured to me to report that I
> knitted the welt (Channel Island cast on followed by 1x1 standard
> ribbing) as well as the one cuff that I'm ripping tomorrow on my
> 12"x2mm "vintage" Phildar sticks. The rest of the sweater has been
> made on 2.5mm Addi circs.
>
> One cuff and one sleeve to go. It ought to be a sweater by this time
> next week!
>
> +++++++++++++
>
> Reply to the list as I do not publish an email address to USENET.
> This practice has cut my spam by more than 95%.
> Of course, I did have to abandon a perfectly good email account...
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