TTS Elfe
Finished
January 18, 2013
May 9, 2013

TTS Elfe

Project info
The Tailored Sweater Method by Tuulia Salmela
Knitting
SweaterPullover
Needles & yarn
US 4 - 3.5 mm
1,575 yards = 2.74 skeins
Rohrspatz & Wollmeise Pure 100% Merino Superwash
0 yards in stash
1.55 skeins = 891.3 yards (815.0 meters), 232 grams
Gray
Rohrspatz & Wollmeise GmbH in Pfaffenhofen an der Ilm, Bayern
September 21, 2012
Rohrspatz & Wollmeise Pure 100% Merino Superwash
213 yards in stash
1.19 skeins = 684.3 yards (625.7 meters), 178 grams
Gray
Rohrspatz & Wollmeise GmbH in Pfaffenhofen an der Ilm, Bayern
September 7, 2012
Notes

This is a combination of Elfe and The Tailored Sweater -method by Tuulia Salmela. For the record - I have puchased both patterns for this.

25 sts, 38 rows / 4 mm needles

Back to 3,5 mm needles, the 4 mm was too loose.

28,5 sts / 41 rows on the 3,5 mm
Gauge after washing:
29,5 sts / 44 rows

9.3.2013 body finished.

23g Mäuseschwänzchen
39 g Heavy Metal left

Second skeins: 157g Mouse; 159g HM

9.5.2013
Oh boy, that was a learning experience… As my biggest problem with cardigans, even though I love them, is the gaping / stretching at the button band, this time I sewed in crossgrain ribbon to the buttonbands. Only thing though, should’ve bought the ribbon beforehand, and not AFTER finishing my buttonbands, as I couldn’t find fitting width. It is now somewhat too narrow, but it works.

Also, the buttonholes were absolute pain, as I worked them in the knitting, and not with a sewing machine, as I have doubts of my sewing machine clearing both knitted fabric and the ribbon. After 2 weeks of tearing my hair out and trying to get it work, I finally ended up making overly long buttonholes to the ribbon with my sewing machine, and then stitching this to match the knitted buttonholes by hand.

Leftover yarn:
137g Mäuseschwänzchen
85 g Heavy Metal

Gauge after washing:
29,5 sts / 44 rows

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  • Project created: January 18, 2013
  • Finished: May 9, 2013
  • Updated: April 24, 2015
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