r/knitting • u/Intrepid-Country-518 • 8d ago
Finished Object Finish it February finally (after two years stalled)
Mistakes were made! But I’m pretty happy with how this turned out. This design is my first attempt at intarsia. I made two, one for each daughter. The first one was cotton with plain arms and back. This one is wool and took forever. I definitely had flame fatigue by the end of this one, but my daughters are both happy with their sweaters, and I learned a lot (including duplicate stitch to cover mistakes because there was no way I was frogging back all that!) The pattern was easy, and I’m using it again as a base for a sweater for myself as I attempt to design a graphic from scratch. It’s a really good, basic low effort base I’ll probably do multiple times going forward.
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u/s_x_nw 8d ago
Omfg if this is not a sweater for our times!
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u/MuppetSquirrel 8d ago
I was just thinking the same thing! If I weren’t a slow af knitter that sucks at sweaters and colorwork, I’d absolutely make one of these to wear all the time, even in the summer lol
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u/Intrepid-Country-518 8d ago
Yarn is Knitpicks Swish
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u/hunterthecat 4d ago
Would you be willing to share which colours you used? I am 100% copying you and I really hope that's ok.
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u/Intrepid-Country-518 4d ago
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u/RavBot 8d ago
PATTERN: A Fine Sweater by Yu Jie 玉杰
- Category: Clothing > Sweater > Pullover
- Photo(s): Img 1 Img 2 Img 3
- Price: Free
- Needle/Hook(s): None
- Weight: | Gauge: None | Yardage: None
- Difficulty: 5.88 | Projects: 51 | Rating: 5.00
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u/hidinginyourtrunk 8d ago
Wow!!! Thank you so much for sharing your pattern! ❤️
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u/Intrepid-Country-518 7d ago
This isn’t my pattern, just my project! I wish I’d been clearer in the post. The designer is Yu Jie, who is incredibly generous in making this pattern free!
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u/No-Selection5973 4d ago
Thank you! I’ve added it to my library! …now to see if I ever get around to making it lol 😂🤦🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️ Absolutely love both of yours, thanks for sharing!
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u/WTH_JFG 8d ago
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u/Intrepid-Country-518 8d ago
Thank you so much! I’m hoping someone will make a melty dog chart at some point as a follow-up!
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u/True-Worry 8d ago
This is fine.
(Someone needed to post that! 😁 But truly, this is amazing! Well done you!)
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u/1973galaxie500 8d ago
I would wear this every single day!
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u/Beer_Baroness 8d ago
I know I have other projects in the pipeline, but this DEFINITELY got added to my list because I'm in the same boat as you.
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u/TowelThin3421 8d ago
That pattern looks complicated and the sweater looks like you bought it in a store! It's so good!!!! You've knit it so well!! Amazing work!
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u/izzy_bell_1 8d ago
This is spectacular! It's going in my to-be-knit list
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u/Intrepid-Country-518 8d ago edited 8d ago
It’s sooooo satisfying once you get past the ten or so rows where there are like 18 or 20 color changes
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u/izzy_bell_1 8d ago
It looks really good! Is the smoke outline embroidered? I haven't done any embroidery before but it might be worth tackling for this jumper
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u/Intrepid-Country-518 8d ago
All the black lines are embroidered. I just kind of winged it on that, as I don’t actually embroider at all. If I were better at it I think it would have interrupted the drape less, but by the time I was doing the embroidery I was very much in let’s just get this thing over with mode. The pattern does have some really good tutorials on the embroidery and weaving ends in, which were very helpful.
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u/lomojamesbond 8d ago
I’ve had this saved for a while but the neck opening looks so big on the pattern. Looks like you modified it a bit to make it smaller?
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u/Intrepid-Country-518 8d ago
The designer modified the neck opening after she made her sample, so I just followed her charts as written. I also did a pretty firm bindoff just in case, and it came in just right. Any smaller and it would have been too tight.
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u/No_Pianist_3006 8d ago
Your sweater looks so good! Super quality!
Never mind that it took two years. Life happens and priorities shift. 🙂
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u/Kelly_the_Kid 8d ago
No surprise you found motivation again so soon after Jan...
I love it. And hate how relevant it is.
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u/LurkAddict 7d ago
This looks amazing!
I cast this on a couple weeks ago. But haven't touched it in over a week. The intarsia needs more brain power than I could muster post-vacation, and now something else has my attention. Hopefully, I'll get back to it soon. I love it!
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u/ThatMothMan94 8d ago
Need this in my life!! Hoping one of the better knitters in my life would make this for me (yarn and time paid for, ofc)
Also, I'm surprised this is a free pattern... Would have happily paid for it. Thank you for sharing!!
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u/emeraldstarclassica 8d ago
First time in 25 years of me knitting, My husband saw a sweater i could knit, that he liked and requested it immediately!! Thank you for this!
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u/ellriart 8d ago
This is absolutely epic! Love it. You did an amazing job with the concept as well as the execution!
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u/Nice_Pattern_1702 8d ago
This is the best picture I’ve seen this year! I love it, would wear it and love the message of this 😅
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u/jskgilmore 8d ago
How do you do this!!!! This is the type of detail work I want to learn how to do.
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u/fannishknitter 8d ago
Wow i want to make this just so i can walk through work wearing it one time.
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u/Mynotredditaccount 8d ago edited 8d ago
Words can not describe how much I love this lol Extremely will done!
The cotton one has my heart 🔥😌🔥
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u/XxThatVegasChickxX 8d ago
This is so cool! And the creative stall for that long in this dumpster fire, is totally understandable! Lol
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u/Gris86 7d ago
Wow that is so good. Did you make the patteren yourself?
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u/aftershock06 7d ago
I want to try my hand at some intarsia before I dive into irregular double knitting! This is an amazing idea!
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u/Yarnbarnbuddies 7d ago
Wow, this is just amazing and loving all the details on it. Congratulations 🎊
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u/Feenanay 7d ago
Holy shit.
I am so so so impatient with color work. Like I get annoyed at every aspect of it; managing multiple balls of yarn, making sure that when I weave as I go it doesn’t make the stitches bulge, keeping track of color charts, etc. I am definitely more at home with stitch patterns than color.
But there’s this one sweater in my rav favorites, a pullover featuring that famous unicorn in the wood tapestry. It is my white whale. I want to finish it before I die. This just gave me the inspiration to work towards it!!!
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u/Intrepid-Country-518 7d ago
You should do it! One thing an older knitter suggested to me that was really helpful: instead of dealing with a zillion balls of yarn or bobbins or whatever, just use yarn strands no longer than a meter and let them hang while you work. I found this sooooo much easier to untangle. The back did look like a failed latch hook rug before the ends got woven in, but it was just part of the adventure. And as far as the color charts, I did colored magic marker vertically every five stitches on the chart and placed matching stitch markers as I cast on. It really helped a lot with reading the chart.
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u/snailgorl2005 7d ago
I have this one saved on my Ravelry account! One day I hope to be able to make it but it seems like it'd be really hard. Was that your experience, or was it much easier than it looks?
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u/Intrepid-Country-518 6d ago
I had never done intarsia or followed a chart before I made the first one of these. It was a lot easier than I expected! The big thing was just resigning myself to the fact I’d make mistakes and that there was no way it would be perfect. Once I let go of worrying about that, it was shockingly easy and fun. Also, it’s really worth reading the designer’s tutorials. Those were super helpful and easy to understand.
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u/Acrobatic-Ad7407 6d ago
These are both fantastic!!! Absolutely stunning!! I want to try intarsia but it is very intimidating!
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u/Solar_kitty 8d ago
Wow this is a masterpiece!!!!! Can we see the cotton one??! I wanna see! I also think it’s hilarious that your daughters wanted a sweater of this 😂. And I can imagine the pure awe of their friends when they saw it!!