That’s beautiful
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Collar picked up and bound off.
Now on to the first sleeve. I didn’t seam up the excess length and even after 3 rows that appears to be the right approach.
grump - I want a 16" hiyahiya interchangable cord and my LYS is doing their closing business sale and doesn’t have any left.
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bind off tinked and redone to be tighter on the back, which I had made too loose.
sleeve 1 complete. Not that you can see because I have the camera in the wrong hand, but it does give a good view of the corrected neckband.
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It’s suuuuch a cute sweater.
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So much fancier than anything I’ve attempted. And what you have knit seems to actually fit, which is more than I can usually say.
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Yeah, this is a continual work in progress for me.
UNRELATED but I will be on Discord vidchat at 5pm Pacific/8pm Eastern/8am Perth time. Come hang out. I need someone to amuse me through my endless purling.
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I should be there. Almost on the last row on this baby blanket. I realized awhile ago that my ‘row’ is 12’ long…
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faints
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I should actually be able to make this one! Now to find my shawl…
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I strongly recommend tank tops as early things to fit, because they are very forgiving in terms of ease, and you don’t need to deal with sleeves, which are annoying.
Ends woven in and everything.
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So pretty!!!
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Ok, decided to soak my swatch for the next tank top, and while it is drying picked up the brown sock again and I was still not feeling it, so I ripped back to the toe again and I will try stripes with this skein of Queensland Collection 'Perth ’ in the Great Sandy colourway. This brown has been very obstinate.
Eta Tried first with the red yarn being the knit-purl row, but decided to rip that back and try with the brown being knit-purl which I think is better. Is this good enough or should I just put it away until I find a cream I like…
ETA 2 - again, remember that I bought this yarn specifically in March to be less precious and unable to make decisions because I might waste good materials.
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Hmm. I don’t think it pops, so if you want it to pop, then I would not go for that match. But if you want it to be more subtle, then I think it works well.
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I don’t need it to pop, I have other socks using the broken seed stitch that look basically like one colourway. But yeah, it’s better, but I still don’t actually like it.
So I’ll frog and see if anything else is speaking to me.
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ok, gauge for this top is 22 stitches over 4 inches, and I’m at 23, not sure if I could get that extra stitch with a more aggressive blocking, but I’m also using the numbers that should give me 12" ease and the pattern calls for 4-7".
I wrote a whole paragraph about the body not fitting if it is too long, and then I actually checked row gauge, which I don’t usually bother to do. I’m at 46 rows over 4". The target is 34.
So I could rip back, go up a needle size and actually start with the ribbing like they recommend with a wool blend, or try to adjust the math and hope I have enough yarn.
I think today is a day of ripping back. 25% off on gauge seems too much to fudge with math when I’m this tight on the yardage.
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I thought I didn’t have enough orange to make a pair of socks without contrast heels and toes. Obviously I was wrong, but I still like the stripes. I could do the contrast heel on the other, but then I wouldn’t have matched leftovers. Decisions for later.
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Sleeves are attached!
I’m struggling with knitting across where the sleeves are because there are more stitches on the needle than on the sleeves, so the sleeve stitches pull in. I try to squeeze the stitches close together. Any other tips?
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I will be in the video chat on discord at 5pm MST, 8pm EDT(?).
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I’ll be on at 5pm PDT!