A toddler sweater I made!

[u/nk033]

I machine knit the body and sleeves, assembled and hand knit the yoke, and grafted on a machine knit collar. I have a punch card machine, so I had to hand select the needles for the flowers that don't repeat, which was a real pain (I made only a few mistakes, which I was able to fix by duplicate stitch). This is adapted from the Supercute hand knitting pattern.

[u/Ethreael]

So cute!

[u/iolitess]

This is indeed super cute!

Did you have to do a bunch of adjustment to get the motifs into a 24 stitch repeat for the punchcards?

(It seems like it’s pretty common width to see even for hand knitting… or maybe there are a lot of 4,6,8,and 12 stitch repeats!)

[u/nk033 → u/iolitess]

I actually didn't have to do adjustments for the pattern as the leaf, flower and bird motifs conveniently had 12 stitch repeats. That's how I could get two different leaf motifs per row. The only complication was at the seam where you get 3/4 on one side and 1/4 on the other side, and there wasn't a way to match them using the punchcard (at least in the size I was making). I was able to match the flowers at the seams, though, since they were hand-selected.

I noted the same, that 12 and 24 sts repeats are common in hand-knitting patterns too. Sometimes I think designers use punchcard machines for prototyping, or maybe it's the other way around - the 24 sts punchcard repeat was chosen because it's common (and has many factors).

[u/Ninten64]

I love the leaf motifs carrying over a few of the color bands.

[u/susiroo]

Kudos on having the hand knit yoke look like a seamless extension of the machined body - a very busy pattern is helpful!