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I'm a bit of a science nerd, and I've recently been attracted to microscopic images. This sweater was inspired by images of xylem, which are part of vascular plants' circulatory systems (see below).
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Xylem is knit top-down. After casting on, you first knit back and forth, increasing for the sleeves and the v-neck, and then join and continue in the round. While I've used a garter stitch pattern on the yoke and body, you could also choose to save the garter ridge pattern for the bust area if you'd rather emphasize that.
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I chose to finish the sweater with garter stitch rows around the sleeves, hem, and neckline.
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This sweater takes 5 skeins of Noro Kureyon (or 550 yards) on size 7 needles.
2 comments:
Did you find it funny that you designed a xylem sweater to be knit top-down? :)
Beautiful, by the way!
Thanks! Haha... maybe I should have called it Phloem!
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