Treysta Sweater
May 15, 2025
Project recap
- Ravelry project page
- Time spent: 48 hours
- Yarn:
- MC Copper: MacAusland’s Woollen Mills 2-ply (Fawn)
- CC1 Black: Ístex Léttlopi (Black Heather)
- CC2 White: Briggs & Little Tuffy (Ecru)
- CC3 Yellow, Yarn held double:
- Loops & Threads Impeccable (Sunny day)
- CaMaRose Lamauld (Karrygul)
- Needle: US 7/4.5mm, US 4/3.5mm
- Duration: -
- Pattern: Treysta
- Designer: Jennifer Steingass
Who knits wool sweaters in the off-season? Well, me!
This is a stash project. The wool is from PEI — a rustic type, not as soft as merino but perfect for a Fair Isle sweater.
Colourwork planning
I have plenty of copper yarn from MacAusland’s Woollen Mills, so that’ll be the main colour for my Treysta sweater. The original pattern uses a colour combination of copper/black/white/grey, but I’m replacing the grey with yellow to bump up the contrast and make it feel a bit more playful.
The problem was that the yellow wool yarn I had on hand wasn’t bright enough. I tried a few colour combination swatches to find the best match as below.
Figure 1: Combo 1 (yarn held double): Rauma Alpakka Lin (Yellow) + CaMaRose Lamauld (Karrygul) /n Combo 2 (single strand): CaMaRose Lamauld (Karrygul) /n Combo 3 (single strand): Rauma Alpakka Lin (Yellow) /n Combo 4 (double strand): CaMaRose Lamauld (Karrygul) /n Combo 5 (yarn held double): CaMaRose Lamauld (Karrygul) + L&T Impeccable (Sunny day)
I wanted the brightest one to be the CC colour, and combo 5 turned out to be the winner, in which I joining another strand from the Sunny Day colourway, a bright yellow, from Loops & Threads Impeccable line. It’s acrylic, which isn’t ideal, but colour-wise it matches perfectly.
Project timeline
- – Cast on. Trying different ways of Italian/tubular cast-on
- - Starting the yoke.
- - On hold. I run out of black yarn!
- - Refill yarn.
- - Bind off.
- - Block and done.
Knitlog
After testing at least eight variations of Italian/tubular cast-on from books and YouTube, I finally got a collar I’m happy with! Turns out the most complicated version on YouTube gives the best result: ITALIAN TUBULAR CAST ON for rib 2x2 — NEW completely JOGLESS joining in the round.
I started the colourwork too. Adding it instantly made the knitting more interesting!
This is going fast! One hiccup though: I was planning to finish the colourwork yoke today, but the black yarn ran out. For some reason, the pattern’s yardage estimate isn’t accurate.
Too lazy to make a special trip to the LYS, so I’ll set this aside for now and check out other projects in my queue.
Finally restocked my black yarn on LYS Day — waited more than a month, but the discount was worth it! I kept myself busy with other projects in the meantime.
It’s a bit too warm for wool sweaters now, so I’m hoping the building management switches on the air conditioning soon.
Finished the colourwork yoke and reached the point of separating body and sleeves. I did a quick calculation of the remaining MC yarn and it should be more than enough.
Planning to knit both sleeves together, but using two small circular needles instead of the usual TAAT method.
Progress has been fast. The sweater is basically done — just finishing the bind-off right now. Once that’s done, I’ll block and dry it tonight.
Done!
After blocking, it looks completely different: wrinkles flattened, the fabric smoothed out. The fit is great, though the back turned out a bit wide. I should have done the waist shaping earlier, but it’s too late when I realized my row gauge was too loose…
Figure 2: My cat always enjoy the blocking sweater as their temporary bed :P
Retrospective
The blocking really did the magic to this sweater. The stitches look more even and relaxed.
The fit is great but not perfect: the bust could be slightly smaller, and I should have started waist shaping earlier.
