One thing about knitting is that it keeps you humble.\u00a0 I cast on the stitches and knit the first 5 rows and discovered that I should have used the smaller sized needles.\u00a0 So, I pulled it all off the needles and unraveled.\u00a0 By then it was after midnight last night.<\/p>\n
Today I finally found the size 5 needles right where they were supposed to be after searching there, missing them and searching the rest of the house. I find that if I can’t find something it will show up in plain sight once I give up after a couple of hours. Once again this held true.\u00a0 So, with needles in hand I cast on again and knit the first 5 rows.\u00a0 Then I had to change to the size 6 needles.\u00a0 This took a while because I wanted to move the size 6 to a new length cord and found that they wouldn’t go on that one but they did go back on the shorter cord no problem.\u00a0 I’m flexible.\u00a0 So, the shorter cord it was\u00a0 and the sweater still fit.<\/p>\n
The body of the sweater is knit all in one piece up to the armholes.\u00a0 So the first row is the set up row where you place the markers for the front edge, front panel, underarm panel, back, other underarm panel, front panel, and front edge.\u00a0 That part went really well.<\/p>\n
Next is the first pattern row.\u00a0 Front panel — no problem.\u00a0 Get to the back panel and I ended up knitting in and pulling it out four time.\u00a0 The problem was that somehow I forgot to check the chart for the size I was knitting and make sure I stayed within the right colors.\u00a0 Evidently, I have a very short attention span, can’t distinguish colors, and\/or can’t remember the size I’m knitting.\u00a0 Finally on try number 4 — I managed to get the right section of the chart done the correct number of time to fit the stitches available.\u00a0 Then I breezed through the other sections.<\/p>\n
Now that the first row of the charts are done it should be much easier to keep track as\u00a0 I can read the knitting to make sure I find the right place on the charts.\u00a0 Yeah, I know I’ve probably set myself up for a zap from the knitting hubris goddess but a girl’s gotta dream.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
One thing about knitting is that it keeps you humble.\u00a0 I cast on the stitches and knit the first 5 rows and discovered that I should have used the smaller sized needles.\u00a0 So, I pulled it all off the needles and unraveled.\u00a0 By then it was after midnight last night. Today I finally found the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knitting","category-sweaters"],"aioseo_notices":[],"yoast_head":"\n