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November 28, 2005
Tale of Two Arans
A quick refresher on what the lady's aran looks like. The sleeve cuff had a rip on CO edge and a smaller tear 4 rows into ribbing. I've already deleted the tons of pictures I took while I was unpicking the rows but here is the finished cuff:
The yarn doesn't exactly match as could be expected when color matching a garment purchased overseas in '91. The owners have had the garment dry cleaned which made the fibers brittle. I kept getting 6-8" long lengths of yarn as I undid the cuff portion so I turned to the stasherooni. The closest match? Wendy aka Poppleton guernsey yarn. This sweater was knit using a sport weightish yarn making all my aran weight yarns too heavy. OK onto the gentleman's sweater:
This sweater had a hole in one of the cables near collar *and* the V was too deap. The original plan was to undo the upper body seams and rip an inch from fronts and back then reseam and adjust button band length to fit. The button band is done in twisted rib that runs parallel to the sweater. Alas the ripping yarn from lady's sweater had me too fearful of such a job. Plus the buttonbands are knit in one piece and doubled. Again I used gansey yarn and its a much closer match to this sweater. Here is a close up of the back which had me initially thinking I could easily take the sweater apart and redo:
The saddles wrap around the back of neck and are seamed in the center but the buttonband itself.... No such luck. Plus whoever knit these sweaters did one smack dandy finishing job. Ignore the yarn popping out~ his was less well put together than hers and I haven't snipped yet. It took an hour for me to find the cuff ends. The hole was right where the upper right hand part of cuff hits. Well in the middle of that cable. I am more pleased with how this turned out than with the cuff repair.
OK Toodles~ yarny days and knitterly eveings y'alls
Posted by Elka at November 28, 2005 12:54 PM