Considering that I finished up the body of this sweater on August 29, it sure has taken me a long time to knit two sleeves, but I finally finished the sweater this past Friday. This is my third Camp Loopy project, the 800 yard project. It took 872 yards. The yarn is Fiesta Yarns Boomerang, Caribbean colorway, 3 skeins (2.73 to be exact). The pattern is a top-down raglan from the Sweater Wizard software, although I modified the spacing of the increases for the neck and body, using the spacing from a bottom up raglan. I have experimented with bind offs on all of these sweaters. On this one I did regular bind offs on the neck and the sleeves, although I did go up a needle size for the bind off on the sleeves. For the bottom of the body I did a lace bind off because I wanted something stretchy. It is definitely stretchy. On this sweater and also on the Barcelona pullover I cast on 16 stitches under the arm instead of 14 to give a little more ease in the sleeves as well as the body. I also made the cuffs a little looser by only decreasing to 42 stitches rather than 39. I don't like tight cuffs. Now we just need some fall weather so I can wear my pullovers, it will be a nice change from turtlenecks.
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