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I'm embarrassed to admit it, but after... 12? 14? years of knitting, I was recently finally ready to make an adult-sized sweater. Picked out a simple design by Regina Moesmer (sp?), and after reading through the pattern, decided I wanted a folded, double layer collar instead of the simple ribbed collar in the pattern. I've done that on hats, how hard could it be? Couldn't find the instructions for how I've done it in the past, so found new instructions and got to work. Seemed to go well, reduced to the number of stitches I needed to start the main body of the sweater. Tried to get it over my head, and it had all of the stretch of a 2 inch steel cable. Frogged and tried again. Same thing. Frogged and tried with bigger needles. Same thing. Frogged and tried with somewhat different instructions. Same thing.
Wtf is happening? I have hats that use the same technique, that will stretch to over twice their original circumference! What am I doing differently to make this fail so badly? The sweater has been in time out for months now, while I resign myself to doing the original k1p1 collar. ๐ก
What cast on are you using?
Edit: I think it might be the specific circumference. Because there's not enough give on the cast-on edge, having a wider circumference is going to be key perhaps. ?
For anyone wondering what we're talking about:
Creating a Folded Neckband https://youtu.be/RYyvunQzRNg
I used the one where you do a provisional cast on (I used crochet, I think... need to keep better notes apparently) with 2x the number of stitches you want to end up with, knit the first row, slipping every second stitch, then purling the next row, slipping the already knit stitches. When it's the right length, remove the provisional cast on and k2tog all around. I could've sworn that's how I did my hats. Do you have any idea of where that would go wrong?
Forgot to mention that you have my sympathy for that brioche shawl, lol. Is it one of the two colour ones? I tried that, just in a swatch, and gave up in disgust about 6 rows in. Fiddly lace is no problem, but apparently brioche and simple collars are too much, haha.
Haha, I forgot to respond about the shawl. It's a three color shawl with different two-color brioche areas. It's this one: Bixbite Shawl which appears two-color but it's three-color.
It's a stunning shawl and I haven't given up completely yet. Learning the brioche is hard for me for some reason. I can't even guess why it's such a block, not that I think it's easy or anything. But I feel like I'm learning knitting all over again instead of just a few new stitches. It's bizarre.
I saw the shawl on Fraoc Knits vlog and fell in love. I had one skein already and bought more yarn that I don't want to use for anything else. We'll see how thing pans out.
It really is a beautiful pattern! Hope the next round goes more smoothly for you, it's weird how sometimes our brains just say "nope" to a new technique.