Cutting Words

4 years after measuring and starting a sweater for him, and John’s body has changed. He moved some of his waist into his chest– looks great, except now the sweater which I just finished, is tight across the chest.

The pattern is Andy, from Knitty. As you can see in the pattern, the body is knit in one piece.

John found this tutorial on Techknitting, which suggests making underarm gussets to accommodate a larger chest. I’m 90% convinced that this will work, except….

The sides don’t have seams. I’ll have to cut my knitting. Worse, I’ll have to cut vertically, which means I can’t just snip and unweave stitches (like I did for my recent afterthought sleeves)– I’ll need some steek magic in here.

This realization yesterday required a glass of wine. I may be able to start tackling it this week. The temps yesterday were in the 80’s, so I’m not too worried about him needing this sweater just yet. Soon, though. Winter is, after all, coming.