CROCHET / Cardigan 1

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CARDIGAN Projekt No. 1 / #Houndstoothpattern / learn how to crochet #Freestyle / Blog. No. 1/K

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Please read all (#) generalconsiderations *, especially regarding cast-on chain and ways to work the first row (#) crochetchainworkins * and the edges; and about working with different yarns if you use your stash (and especially if you use ereditated yarn whose peculiarities you do not know); and Blogs 1/A to 1/J.

*Sometimes, referring to a hashtag, I put a space between the # and the word, in order not to have this article appear if you search for the hashtag in my themes

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I frequently use British spelling, because that’s how I had learned it at school - but most technical terms are american, especially single crochet / double crochet …. or my own, but then I give an explanation every time I use them.

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Diary, last days before finishing the Cardigan

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Thursday

Sewing in the sleeves - as it is Kimono style, with all the parts being square, it should be an easy task, so let’s see.

Trying to do it with invisible stitches, hoping to be able to make it double face.

In Kimono Style the sleeves are both the same, so don't have to care for right or left.

Steps:

1)- Sew together some centimetres of one sleeve, from the two upper edges down, leaving the rest open for easier handling

2)- Place the exact point of the joint of the edges of the sleeve under exactly where the divide for the sleeve slot of the whole body is. The right (outer) side of the sleeve fabric comes to be against the left (inner) side of the whole body fabric - tucked inside for the height of the last row of the sleeve. Fix with stickpin, then sew together temporarily for some cm to the left and right. Picture 4)

3)- Fold the sleeve in half lengthwise, edge on edge; fold the whole body exactly where the divide for the sleeves begins, lengthwise

4)- slide the rest of the sleeve inside the slot, for the depth of the last row - both parts have the right side outside

5)- start fixing them together provisionally, with yarn of another colour (so you can find it and pull it out easily once it is sewn definitively), going up for half of the sleeve front and back.

Now you can see clearly if both parts fit together perfectly, or if you need to do some crimpling on the sleeve.

It is always better that the sleeve is a little bit bigger, rather than the slot for it on the body!! Consider this when deciding for the width of the sleeve!

6)- Now go on fixing it provisionally, try on the cardigan to see if it’s ok, make eventual correction

7)- Same process for the other sleeve, 1) to 6)

8)- Proceed fixing them permanently, with small back stitches, placed exactly on the edge of the fabric, under the fringes. Trying to do mine with as much as possible invisible stitches, that just go inside the fabric of the sleeve, but not through to its other side - if I manage, the cardigan can be used on both sides. The fringes are a small problem, they always come in the way of my needle. Fortunately, they are not very dense by now, just the left over tail ends. As much as I would have liked to add all of them immediately (as it’s easier into a loose edge than into a sewn on one) - I knew that it was wiser not do do it from experience with other garments before.

9)- pull out the provisional threads

10)- Sew on the overlapping fabric on the inside, again taking great care not to stitch completely through the bottom fabric, but only into some threads of it. Picture 3)

11)- sew together the edges of the sleeves, placing it flat (you can insert a book as a base to work on) and using small sling stitches - the kind of fabric is ideal for invisible ones. I did it on outside and then again inside, taking on only threads very near to the outer edges.

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If you want to sew it together overlapping, you have to consider this BEFORE sewing it on to the body. In this case, you have to sew it on on the inside, too.

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If you don’t want to make the cardigan double face, you can sew it together the usual way, on the left side, right side of the fabric on right side. This, too, has to be considered BEFORE sewing them to the body.

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Now, of course, if you are neither interested in having fringes, nor in a double face garment, you can weave the tails in on the left side, and then sew in the whole sleeve the usual way, right side of the fabric on right side, sewing done on the left side.

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Being a straight line sleeve and a straight line sleeve slot, the only problem that can present itself is one piece being bigger than the other. As mentioned above, it really should be the sleeve - to fix this, when sewing the upper part, stretch the fabric of the body on the edges of the slot as much as needed. If it’s just a little bit, do it as much as possible on top of the shoulder, gradually going down. Never do it on the lower part.

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For me, it’s: first sleeve fixed provisionally but successfully, without alterations!!! 👍🏽👻👻

The other one, for tomorrow…….

Oh how I would like to add some fringes, but nope, don’t let myself do it.

Can decide for their length, though. Want them as long as possible, but obviously it’s determined by the shortest present ones. Will integrate them with lots in the lighter yarn, of which I still have a good amount. Hopefully, at a later time, with some of the dark green Mohair as well - but there’s very few of it left, and I still need some for Cardigan2

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to be continued