It’s the moment we’ve all been waiting for! It’s time to cast on our Delancey Cardigans and get this show on the road!
Last week you gauged, and from there you have decided which size to knit, whether that is Alexis’s new plus sized pattern or the original, and you have decided if you are going to follow her notes for shortening Delancey. So with all of these things considered, you are going to knit this sweater with the most educated guesses you can to get a sweater you love.
Laura's Delancey Swatch
So it’s time! Grab your main color and let’s do this.
This Week’s Delancey Cardigan Goal: Work your Delancey pattern through row 54.
Casting on 5 sts to start a sweater is pretty unusual, but we are starting this sweater by knitting to triangles that will become the bottom sides of the sweater. It’s fun and keeps you on your toes!
Melissa's Swatch Options
I hate paying attention to row count as much as the next knitter, but it is a vital part of knitting Delancey. Pull out a notebook or stick a sticky note to your pattern and keep track by hash-marks, or by writing out each row, making a note by each row number where you have to stripe or change something. Notes while working this pattern are really helpful!
Especially with your striping. Following the pattern as written, you are starting your striping on row 30, which is not noted in the pattern but as a note at the beginning before the instructions start, and striping is resumed every 24 rows. If you are working the shortened version, like I am, striping starts on row 20, and is resumed every 18 rows. And you are on your own with working in your striping! So keep good count of your rows.
Jamie with some Gauge Math!
And a little hot tip: SSK decreases are always hard for me, so I just K2tog through the back loops. It ends up looking the same and for whatever reason takes less hand eye coordination.
Once both side triangles are worked, they are joined together and all your sweater sts are worked back and forth. You’ll get a few rows past your joined side panels this week.
So cast on and start working the bottom of this cardigan! Email me pics or share them on the forum. This is going to be FUN!
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Have fun ladies!
can’t wait to see how they all turn out!
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Comment by Cindy — February 6, 2012 @ 10:55 am
Just an FYI if you do swap out SSK and K2tog TBL, if you look closely the knit stitch on top of the decrease is twisted. This starts to become rather noticeable if you have multiple in a line. Just thought I’d let you know!
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Comment by Amanda U — February 6, 2012 @ 1:28 pm
Thanks so much for the heads up, Amanda! I’ll for sure take a look at that.
Comment by Allyson — February 6, 2012 @ 1:30 pm
So, we’re working toward joining the two triangles? Because that’s not row 54 on all the sizes, and I don’t have the regular sized pattern, only the +size. Can you tell us where in the pattern that is? Thanks!
Comment by Jillian — February 8, 2012 @ 3:58 pm
On the original pattern row 54 is a couple rows past when you join the triangles, or 1 row. The triangles are between 37-53 rows, then you join them.
I guess I should have thought that the triangles would be larger on the plus sized pattern! I’m so sorry I didn’t think of that.
So for this week finish both triangles and join them with one row. That will get you farther than the knitters working on the original pattern this week, but make next week a little easier!
So sorry again for the confusion, and hopefully this sets you on the right track.
Comment by Allyson — February 8, 2012 @ 4:17 pm