As promised here is a picture of the newly completed Beach Hat! The brim is very floppy, but the pattern has worked out well and the linen yarn is fantastic. Now, I just need another beach holiday to wear it!
In between my next projects, I’ve also decided to lengthen the blue cable jumper. Because the cables pull the ribs in, the jumper comes up shorter than the yellow version with the plain ribs. As most of my trousers finish fairly low on my hips this does leave a bit of a gap. The tricky bit is going to be matching in the cable!
As you can see from the cable chart below, the pattern begins with two plain rows, with row 2 a repeat of row 10, this be the row that is grafted so I need to end my extension at row nine and then count back.
I’ll also need to unpick the current row 1 so that the pattern isn’t elongated. This means that the back extension piece will need to be 1 row shorter than the front so that the two are same total length when grafted.
So the plan is as follows:
Back: knit 16 rows of 112 stitches decreasing 2 stitches at either end on row 16. The extra two stitches won’t alter the shape too much, but will hopefully add a little extra width so the jumper isn’t stretching too much over my hips (causing it to ride up).
Front: Knit 17 rows of 113 in patt, decreasing 2 stitches at either end on row 16. The front has an extra stitch in order to centralise the cable pattern.
To graft back: Unpick the cast on row securing row 1 stitches on spare yarn. Using a tapestry needle use an invisible graft to join the two pieces.
To graft front: Unpick the cast on row and row 1 securing row 2 stitches on spare yarn This will cancel out the extra plain row at the start of the cable pattern. Using tapestry needle use an invisible graft to join the two pieces.
Use mattress stitch to join the side seams.
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