Knitting: Tiger Sweater

[badly_knitted]

I was browsing through the photos I've uploaded to dreamwidth to see which cross stitch pieces I've posted to my journals and which I haven't yet, and came across a photo of my favourite sweater, so I thought I'd share it here. I've made this design 5 times over the years, twice for my sister with a sage green background, and three times for myself, this one, a lighter blue, and a rust colour.

The design isn't actually knitted in, because I'm not good at that, it's stitched on afterwards using the Swiss darning technique, which follows the knitting stitches so it just LOOKS knitted. I've made quite a few picture sweaters using this technique. I like the extra thickness it gives on the front.

 

Comments

[yourlibrarian]

Wow that is so striking! The stitching seems invisible from the picture. I'll bet the recipients really enjoyed the sweaters.

[badly_knitted]

Thank you!

My sister's was the first one I made, and when the cuffs started going, I redid them AND made her a new sweater, identical to the old one.

The other three I kept for myself, I love the design so much. It came out of an old Women's magazine, forever ago. I had to copy the chart to graph paper because the original was rather flimsy.

[yourlibrarian]

Looks like the extra effort was worth it 🙂

[badly_knitted]

It's certainly made following the chart easier. I coloured it in so I could see which colours went where.

[uncaged_butterflies]

Holy heck that looks so cool! Such a powerful technique to master! =O

[badly_knitted]

Thank you! And it's actually a really simple technique, but it makes for a great effect.

[adafrog]

:)

[badly_knitted]

Thank you!

[readera]

Wow that's so impressive and it looks so nice!

[badly_knitted]

Thank you! It isn't difficult to do, just a bit time consuming, and best stitched before the sweater is assembled.