Mosaic sweater finished! Just in time for the cold

I apologize for the quality of my selfies. For some reason I can get the remote control via my phone working. so I used the old fashioned function of using the timer. Didn’t work out too well.

The stealing went well. I admit here, that I like cardigans but I hate the button band. I didn’t line up the patterns all that well when I sewed on the buttons. Luckily, I will mostly wear this open.

Even if I don’t, most people won’t see the problem. Only me.

Looking at the back, I realize that I probably should have simply made this a pullover. But I was ambitious and really wanted to steak.

Ok, just for comparison, I took off the timer, and shot this picture, look how great the sweater looks with the correct photography.

I do like how well the bands match across the knitting. Thank you Ann Budd! The Top down sweater workbook really works. I have since bought her book for sweaters in general. I know, for years I let others design for me. I’m not saying I’ll never buy another pattern. But these formulas work. I bought too much yarn, so now I’m making a hat and maybe a scarf.

Lets go back and see the stealing process. I ended up doing the single crochet method. Since this is knit topdown, I crocheted from the top down as well, so the stitches are lying in the correct direction.

Now the fun! cutting the stitches. Using a small sharp pair of scissors and carefully cutting one stitch at a time.

Its’ open, now it’s a cardigan!

This is the part I hate, the button band. first of all I’m at the end, my attention is lagging. Second, I should be counting and making sure I have the same number of stitches on both bands, I didn’t do that. So there are gaps and inaccuracies.

The end result of the stealing is lovely, after I got the band on, I whip stitched the crochet edge down, all the raw stitches are hidden. Since this is a ‘grippy’ wool, they will sort of felt together and there is no way they will unravel. Also, how interesting is the back of the knitting is. Btw, steaking on mosaic knitting is not recommended. I have two rows that function as one, but when I cut the steaks I had to treat each row individually, so sort of too much fabric.