Sweater from Sandnes Garn

This sweater pattern is from Sandnes Garn,

found in one of their discontinued catalogs.

As far as I know

it is only written in Norwegian,

but I might be wrong.

The catalog can be found on their web-page.

Look for it a bit down

in the middle of the page.

Name of catalog: Til Fjells #0411

Pattern number 23

I struggled just a little bit

with the sleeve stitch amount.

The pattern suggested a huge increase

following the ribbing.

I assume that since the pattern is dated,

wider sleeves was the style back then.

 I increased 14 more stitches instead of 32.

Running out of yarn

My second issue was

- running out of the main dark grey color.

Body was done,

and only one sleeve was done.

Several cm left on the second sleeve...

No skeins left in the LYS,

and I was heading out of the country 

the next day.

One of two options,

give up or be creative!

I unraveled down 

past the stranded pattern on top,

devided the last yards of grey 

between the 2 sleeves,

and added some pattern rows

to the top of the sleeves.

It worked for me....

Attaching the sleeves

Sleeves was attached

with invisible horizontal seam,

from the right side.

Following the instructions on this

you-tube video from Knit Purl Hunter,

might be helpful.

On the sleeve side of the seam,

- stitch as on the video above,

and on the sweater side of the seam,

(in a straight vertical line)

grab the bar between the stitches.

Neck shaping

 Many patterns suggest working

back and forth a given numbers of rows,

as you approch the very top

of the sweater, to form either

a front or a neck shape.

  

In this case the sweater was worked

straight to the top,

no neck bind-off or decreases.

The neck shape was formed

using contrast color yarn and 

a tapetsry needle.

Then steeked and cut as for 

the front closure and sleeve openings.

The increase method

 at the front part of the collar

was also changed.

 The pattern suggested a 1 stitch increase

on each side every 2 cm.

As the color is worked back and forth

in k2, p2, these increase stitches

were to be worked 

in a continuation of the k2, p2,

ribbing pattern.

It would in my mind be very visible 

right at the front of the sweater,

So I decided to increase

in the purl stitch columns

closest to each side of the collar,

 from 2 to 3 purl stitches for the first increase.

Next increase was done the same way,

but in the next purl stitch column

in from each side.

Third increase in the third column,

and so on.

Last little detail,

was hiding the steek stitches.

Some patterns include how to

work a knit lining of the raw, cut edges.

This pattern did not.

Since low on extra yarn was an issue,

I basically handstitched

a strip of fabric for protection,

and visibility of, the other wise,

quite ugly edges.

Hope this was helpful...

Have a nice day!