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cimoreneSo I finished the purple hoodie! The toggles I ordered arrived. The hood was... not fixable, so I removed it to get enough yarn to sew on the toggles and make the toggle loops. There was enough then to have made bigger pockets, but I didn't have the heart for it. [Ed: so it's not really a hoodie. See also The Curséd Hoodie Sweater.]
The fit and the drape is still really nice, and the toggles seem to suit it. I hate sideways knitted-on ribbing so I finished the edges with applied i-cord, as usual. I only put ribbing at the top edge where the hood had been, to raise the edge of the neckline a bit in back. It's not really bad, but it feels like it would go around the whole front opening edge in one piece ideally for a deep-V cardigan like this... not enough to make me want to undo all the i-cord and do that, though. Ideally, maybe, if you were INTENDING to make it like this without the hood, the whole front cable should be knitted on after and should go around the neck opening too, along with a centimeter or two of vertical slip-stitch ribbing perhaps on the outside edge of it which would then be folded in and sewn to make a more stable button band. I guess it's not outside the realm of possibility that I'll come back to it and do that. Also really I probably shouldn't have put those top two toggles on.
Wax finished the blue sweater that originally was an accidental croptop as well as another aran cable sweater from Finnish Kainuun harmas, but I haven't gotten pictures of the blue one yet.
The fit and the drape is still really nice, and the toggles seem to suit it. I hate sideways knitted-on ribbing so I finished the edges with applied i-cord, as usual. I only put ribbing at the top edge where the hood had been, to raise the edge of the neckline a bit in back. It's not really bad, but it feels like it would go around the whole front opening edge in one piece ideally for a deep-V cardigan like this... not enough to make me want to undo all the i-cord and do that, though. Ideally, maybe, if you were INTENDING to make it like this without the hood, the whole front cable should be knitted on after and should go around the neck opening too, along with a centimeter or two of vertical slip-stitch ribbing perhaps on the outside edge of it which would then be folded in and sewn to make a more stable button band. I guess it's not outside the realm of possibility that I'll come back to it and do that. Also really I probably shouldn't have put those top two toggles on.
Wax finished the blue sweater that originally was an accidental croptop as well as another aran cable sweater from Finnish Kainuun harmas, but I haven't gotten pictures of the blue one yet.
