Finished Object: 1930s Sweater Sheer Lace Blouse or Top

1930s Sweater Sheer Lace Blouse or Top

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We would like to thank Kate for sending in pics of her finished sweater. She knit the Sheer Lace Blouse and it looks great. I can’t believe how nice her knitting is, especially with such fine yarn. Kate used a vintage crochet cotton. And is a really fast knitter. I wish I was that fast.

 

 

From Kate: 

"I thought you might be interested to see the jumper I made from the lovely pattern I bought from you in August. I love it so much I am making another one straight away :)"

"I like to knit old patterns using old yarns, and I don't worry too much if the yarn I want to use is not the same ply or weight as the pattern was written for."

“This is a really great, easy to follow pattern that was fun to knit. I used 3.25mm needles for the basque and 4.5mm for the torso and sleeves. The only variation I made to the pattern was that for the sleeve top decreases, I only made one decrease per row, where the pattern calls for two per row.”

 

 

You can find the pattern here.  

Our thanks again to Kate. She made a lovely sweater. I'm a little jealous of her knitting skills. 

Don't forget to check out the Vintage Yarn Wikia page for questions regarding vintage yarn weights.

Happy knitting!

Ladies Three-Quarter Sleeve Cardigan - The Beginning

The yarn has been calling to me for a year and a half. I finally had to start the project.

I inherited a stash of almost vintage yarn from a friend of my mom’s. There are plenty of yarns in the stash that were really nice and colors and weights that I want to make things (sweaters, hats, vests) with. There were a couple of yarns in the stash that I didn’t particularly like, but for some reason couldn’t get rid of them. Something about them made me want to hang on to them and use them together in a project. It’s the weirdest thing. 

I don’t really like the color of one of the yarns in this new project, but I liked it with the second color of yarn. I’m not sure they even go well when put together. But there you go, I couldn’t get rid of the yarn, so I had to come up with something that would use both yarns in a single project. 

Bernat Berella & Unger Utopia yarns.

I was clicking through our patterns one morning and came across this pattern, the 1950s Three Quarter Sleeve Cardigan Sweater - Knit pattern. The pattern called for mohair yarn, but I don’t enjoy working with mohair yarn…it’s almost impossible to rip out stitches when I mess up stitches.

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I started with a swatch to test the pattern. I hadn’t done a slip stitch pattern before and I couldn’t figure out how the stitches were going to work together to create the design. It turns out the pattern rows are easily memorized and even easier to knit.

Test swatch, using scrap yarn.

The yarns were perfect for the jacket. It’s pretty neat looking in-person. Using the darker yarn as the secondary color means that the color pops look more like shadows - they are subtle.

I have 4 skeins of the lighter/main color and 3 skeins of the darker/contrast color. I searched online and could not find any yardage information for the Bear Brand Curlicue or the Fleisher’s Curlette yarns. That isn’t too surprising. Back in the olden days, yardage wasn’t generally included on the label. The original yarns were worsted weight. Here's a link to theVintage Yarn Wikia page for info on yarn information we've run across over the years.

The pattern calls for 11 ounces of the main color and 6 ounces of the contrast color.  I have 14.10 ounces of the light and 10.5ounces of the dark yarns.  Here’s hoping I have enough to make the sweater.

Slip stitch pattern.

The project details:

• Yarn 1: Unger Utopia, Color: 171, 100% Courtelle Acrylic, 240 yards/skein.
• Yarn 2: Color: Bernat Berella, Color: 8815/Antq Rose, 100% Acrylic, 200+ yards/skein.
• Needles: 8 US. Chaiogoo Stainless Steel.
• Gauge: 5 sts = 1 inch (per the pattern).

I should have pics of the started project shortly. Fall baseball has started and we have some Saturday games where I will have to be knitting to calm my nerves.

Happy Knitting!