Day 12, The #CowParade Project
As I worked deeper into the yoke towards where I would need to separate out the sleeves, I began to get a little nervous about my calculations.
I wondered if I’d made an error in measuring the cow and was still struggling to conceptualize how the armholes needed to be.
I did find a website that talked about how the Scottish knitter made Shetland sweaters for Shetland ponies a bunch of years ago, but it wasn’t detailed enough to be helpful.
I kept searching. I figured a dog was more alike in shape to a cow than a person was and found this amazing website where an incredible knitter adjusted a human round yoked sweater for her dogs!
This was the ticket! I re-measured AGAIN and did a bit more math to settle on this:
As you can see, the openings for the sleeves are much closer to the front of the body than in making a person shaped sweater.
Here we are: 12 days in and almost at sleeve separation. I threaded a long line of waste yarn through the live stitches so I could do another fitting.
It’s starting to look like a sweater!