The yarn is 66% Cashmere 34% cotton, 2 x 2/27 which is the equivalent of 675m per 100g (a 2ply yarn in machine knit terms would be 800m/100g).
I used the Silver Reed SK 830 fine gauge machine, using all 250 needles. The gauge is 40s/60.5r and I knitted at tension 5.
The sweater, when completed, including mattress stitching, was machine washed on the hand wash cycle twice and then tumble dried twice. It was then rinsed and tumble dried again. It will shrink no further so can always be tumble dried.
The sweater weighed 490 grams off the machine and 466 when completed. Thus the oil used to protect the yarn and for ease of machine knitting weighed about 24gms.
13 comments:
John is a lucky guy!
Colin, this is gorgeous! That is certainly yarn worth knitting up. Thanks for the treatment information, as well. Kisses to you!
Absolutely beautiful...you do incredible work!
Wow, amazing sweater, Colin! And colour is beautiful. John is one lucky guy. You are an amazing knitter! I haven't knit a whole sweater in many, many years. I have made some for my little grandsons but can't really count them as they are so small and quick to do.
It's a real "WOW." Beautiful!
Lucky John. What a nice color -- but, it's not BLUE or BROWN or GRAY.
Wonderful... congratulation Colin, your work is absolutely beautiful, all is perfect.
Colin, this is so beautiful! I hope John loves it.
Please post puppy pics more often. I check your blog every day, hoping for more puppy pics, LOL, silly me. My cat would be very upset if I got a puppy, so I just look at them for now.
I hope you are both well and warm.
Dan and I spent the day in the hospital yesterday as they thought he was having a heart attack. Turn out he was not, just a reaction to blood pressure drugs. Changed his meds and all is well today! Yahoo!
Julie in San Diego
That's beautiful work, Colin, and the color will look so good on John! Your photos are fantastic. Anyone who says machine knitting (and stitching up) is not art hasn't looked at your work!
You are such an excellent knitter. Love the color too.
The finishing is absolutely exquisite!
this is stunning; I'm very impressed. John is stupendously lucky! He should buy lottery tickets in this sweater...!
You do beautiful work. This is just another example of that. I would love an SK-830!!
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