I have finished Justin's top-down raglan cardigan, complete with basketball buttons. This is the last of my Knit Picks Swish Superwash in the Red Pepper colorway. They discontinued this color and fortunately, I had just enough to complete Justin's sweater. I made a size 8 for him, instead of a size 6, as I had originally planned. I thought with knitting it in the round that I would have a tighter gauge and it would turn out smaller, and it did. My gauge was 5 sts to the inch on my size 8 Denise needles instead of around 4.5 sts to the inch that I got on Joshua's sweater that I knitted back and forth. I look forward to returning to Lawrence's Aguona laptop bag tonight and feel better now that I have some more steeking experience under my belt.
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February 17, 2009
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Excellent! Your nephews are lucky guys.
Posted by: textillian | February 17, 2009 at 09:26 PM
i'm glad that sweater worked out as planned! your steeks look great!
Posted by: opal | February 18, 2009 at 03:07 PM
Cute sweater. Your nephew will love it!!
Posted by: Cheryl | February 20, 2009 at 01:39 PM
The sweater looks great. I love top down knitting but have yet to try steeking. I am now knitting a top down raglan cardi for my mum & designing it as I go.
Posted by: Ann | February 21, 2009 at 10:31 PM
Justin loves the sweater, he won't take it off.
Posted by: carolyn | February 24, 2009 at 08:28 AM