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I wish more of my friends would have baby girls. There’s a rash of boys right now and my stash is full of “girl” colours. Sigh. And even my pattern stash has many more girl patterns than boy ones.
In case anyone was wondering (why would they?), this is how far I've come with my pink sweater (watermelon, actually):
Can't give you inches or centimetres. But it is now heavy enough to tire my fingers. That's one of the disadvantages of knitting something in one piece, I suppose. Wouldn't it be nice to have circulars to take the weight off?
Also, having to work the front and the back with two different strands, and having only one skein, I decided to burn the candle at both ends and use both the inner end and the outer end. This is fine, except as the skein got used up, it is now collapsing on itself and creating a mess. Besides which, it won't be enough to finish this thing, anyway.
The end product will also be good for some weirdly proportioned child, I think. The charts I find online are not very helpful.
End of lame excuse list.
Originally uploaded by MrsFife.
I really like how the Caron Simply Soft Brites is actually soft. I suppose all acrylics are not made equal. Using size 4.5 mm straight needles. The designer prefers to design patterns with minimum sewing. Just the kind I like. When this is done, the sweater will only need to be seamed up the sides and the underarms. From Margaret Hubert.
What have we here? An FO!!
The Short rows baby jacket that I read wrong and made a right royal mess of is finally done. It ain’t pretty and won’t stand up to close scrutiny, but done it is. Here are the gory details:
Yarn: Froya Narvik 100% wool, 3 50gm balls, 131 yds each (120m).
Hook: Pony 3.75 mm straights (the label calls for 4mm)
Pattern: Garter stitch short rows
Time: Over a week (come on, you don’t really expect me to give you exact times, now, do you?)
Size: 21″ around, 10.5″ from neck edge to bottom edge, 10″ sleeve, 4″ cuff.
Extra: #1 Learning short rows
#2 I read the pattern wrong, else the shaping goes from one front panel to sleeve to back to sleeve and second front panel.
#3 The pattern doesn’t give measurements of the finished product in inches, only says ‘3-6’ month baby. Could somebody please tell me what size baby this might fit? Please!
#4 The binding off had to be done imaginatively because I ran out of yarn and I invented a technique of binding off which involved picking up loops and slipping over themselves and a spot of black magic…
#5 I also joined the fronts together at the top because of the same issue of yarn shortage. More abracadabra there.
#6 Skipped the 3-4 rows of ribbing at the neck edge. See #4 and #5 above for reason.
Desiknitter wanted the link to the pattern for the short rows jacket. So here it is, in plain unvarnished html: http://www.knitting-and.com/knitting/patterns/baby/shortrows.htm
Dark mysterious things are being done to the jacket as the yarn has run out and I wouldn't get more. Pictures when I'm ready to share.
Meanwhile, I leave you with a picture of one of my recent purchases:
That, me sweeties, is a Tunisian/Afghan hook, all of 2 mm gauge wide.
Come on Elizabeth-Jane, pick yourself up off that floor. You can continue to use your giant normal-sized hook to make king-sized afghans.
This is what you'd call a narrow squeak:
Notice how close I've come to the end of the yarn on this front panel. Luckily, I have this in store:
that my SP sent me. Yay!
We are now on sleeve #2. Heee.
Most of my projects are determined by the amount of yarn I have rather than anything else.
This is what happens when you don’t read a pattern fully before plunging in. Darn.
I’ve just gone through the Short rows jacket pattern again and realised what I thought was the back is actually one front panel. Daaaaaaaaaaarn. And dang.
So, am I frogging? Nope.
This little baby will just have to be inventively worked. Darn. It will entail picking up stitches on the other side. It just shows you that a more experienced (or attentive) knitter would have known how such patterns work and would have cast on for the front anyway.
If only the pattern had said “Cast on 60 sts for the front right (or left) panel.”
Anyhow, since my yarn is a thicker gauge than the one in the pattern, the 30 ridges called for in the pattern would be too broad a front panel and I’d have to modify the pattern in any case. So I do it now. Darn.
Young lady, let that be a lesson to you!
See, on the right of the picture, you see a sleeve! Yippee.
Working the short rows on both the cuff end and the neck end, it is just a wee bit confusing, but I will persist. I've made a bit more progress on the sleeve since the picture was taken.
Is it just me or does anyone else think the sleeve seems too short? Ah well, I can always pass them off as 3/4 length ones or something.
Here are my adventures in wrapping rows for short row shaping. It's not pretty, so if you're at all squeamish, please turn away now!
The first two pictures show the piece (it's the back of the jacket) from two different angles, and so far, it's ok. If you squint, you can even see the shaping.
Now the thing approaches (this photo shows the true colour of the Froya Narvik, by the way) and you begin to shudder:
Yikes! See what I mean?
And this:
Now off you go and look at some pretty knitting instead! And no, I am not going to frog this. No.
Still on knitting. I'm trying out the short row technique on this pattern: Short rows baby jacket
It doesn't look too bad…Using the grey Froya Narvik 100% wool (no indications of any allergic reaction, thank you) with 3.75mm needles. The lightbulb hasn't yet gone off in my head for this technique, though it seems logical enough. 3 ways to wrap, only tried one yet.
Here is how it looks so far:
I think I'm confusing myself because I'm trying to work simultaneously from the pattern as well as tutorials for the technique from the original site, from knitty.com and so on, plus there's some wrapping instruction in the pattern as well. Too many teachers.
The shaping is happening, but I don't think it would stand up to closer scrutiny.
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