Just finished assembling my first machine knit sweaters. The purple one was knitted on my standard gauge machine in a slip stitch pattern. The green one was manually patterned on my Bond.
I found this sweater and its finished measurement schematic as a hand knitting pattern, so I copied out a full sized version and then drew it half scale for my knit contour. Having neglected to make a ribbing swatch before starting out, the ribbing came out way too tall. It was intended to be 6". The whole sweater is generally out of proportion. It doesn't show up on this dummy, which is made for average sized people. I'll have to make some adjustments to the pattern before trying again. The purple part is 2/9 80% wool/20%nylon. The band is 2 strands of lace weight 100% merino in light gray.
This one, I found on the Bond website, but there were only HAND KNITTING instructions! I had to make some calculations and hope that it came out somewhat close to the right size. I ripped apart 3 backs before I was satisfied. It is 100% acrylic.
Update: SIMPLY SOFT YARN SUCKS. It gets hairy after the first washing and goes downhill from there. The sweater never looked this good again. Like they say, if you're going to put this much work into something, don't use a yarn that won't hold up.
