One Sleeve Down

[atherleisure]

I finished the trim on the first sleeve, which is really just the armscye, on the 1902 vest and started the second one.

On the tuxedo sweater, I got to the point of widening for the sleeves. I'm not a big fan of knitting sweaters in one piece, but that's how the patterns I was finding were so I guess it was a common way to do it during the early 1920's. I know I've seen a couple of sweaters that koshka_the_cat made that were the same way.

Comments

[mala_14]

It does look like a lot of 1920s sweaters are knit that way. I imagine it results in A Lot of stitches on the needles.

[koshka_the_cat]

A whooooole lot of stitches!

So many sweaters! It was common for quite a few years!

[atherleisure]

The fashions in the way things were knit is interesting. The 1908 sweater I knit was knit with the body in one piece back and then front but separate sleeves. By the early 1920's there are all these sweaters knit in one piece, again back to front, this time including the sleeves. Then in the early 1930's there are a bunch of sweaters knit in one piece, but this time in the round starting at the neck. By the 1940's they mostly seem to be knit in separate pieces for front, back, and sleeves.

I'm definitely fondest of the 1940's method, partly because I live in a hot place and partly because I like to be able to carry my knitting in my lunchbox. A whole sweater doesn't fit all that well in my lunchbox.

[atherleisure]

This one has 231 stitches on the needle. I was pleasantly surprised to find that they all fit on my 14" needles, even with a row counter on the end of one needle. It's fingering weight yarn knit at 5 st./in. so it squishes well.

[mala_14]

That is a pleasant surprise!