Did it!

I sewed on the buttons and actually wore it to work.



It is comfortble but the sleeves are slightly long. Too much work to shorten, so I decided to live with it. I'm thinking about making another one in cream - still need something for St. Patick's Day.

(Glad I joined Weight Watchers - have a few months before the next sweater season to be a better model.)

Voodoo

A kind Ravelry member suggested I consult the Yarn Harlot's blog for a suggestion to camoflage my booboo. IT WORKED!

Phew! Now I won't have to keep my arm clasped to my body when I wear it.

Oh, NOOOOO!

I finished knitting the pieces for the Must Have and started sewing it together. The button band wasn't behaving so decided to try a stake out when I noticed this:



GROAN

I left it pinned down overnight and in seems to lie flat now. I considered frogging but that means trying to find my carefully hidden sewing and maybe redoing the button band with many potential problems. Sigh!

Then I realized it will be partially hidden under my arm and decided to live with it. I'm adopting the quilting attitude that mimics the supposed Amish choise to purposely include a mistake - that's the story I'm sticking with. When it eventually urks me too much, I'll odnate it and make myslef another one.

Must Have progress

I noticed something weird in the Irish Moss pattern as I was knitting the fronts. Checked each row and found a booboo. Lukily I only had to frog that section and it knitted back easily.

My needles have been chugging away. It's going easily as I finally learned how the various patterns flow. I finished the fronts late Friday - only 8 days since I started.

I'm still thinking about how the cables look at the front edges. I'm going to reserve judgement until the buttuon band is picked up.
I asked for suggestions on how to handle mirroring the cables on the sleeves on Ravelry, but no one responded yet. I'm trying not to get distracted so cast on the sleeves and started knitting. I did flipped Pattern B, but I'm not sure it's necessary.

Must Have Back

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Must Have Back,
originally uploaded by glassneedle.

I was almost done this morning, (needing to rest to wait for the meds to kick in has some advantages!) I rushed home from work to pick up my needles. Glad I waited - noticed the cables would end at an ackward place - added 2 more rows and bound off. Took off my suit jacket and compared sizes - looking good! So there is a good chance this might really fit!

2008 Sweater KAL

I am making the Must Have Cardigan for a sweater KAL on Ravelry. But as the Yarn Harlot mentioned it on her blog, the pattern was scarce - so I resorted to Ebay for a copy. Our first task in the KAL was to assemble all the supplies:

This isn't complete as I was still stair restricted, so I couldn't include my Space Board and steam generator.
This is proof that I actually followed directions and made a swatch:

I decided not to keep to the stated guage. The pattern didn't have a large enough size for this fluffy body and I wasn't in the mood to grade it. I did the math and it should fit. I'm prepared to make the decision to frog or gift if it doesn't.
The Yarn Harlot mentioned she mirrored the cables when she made it, but wasn't specific if she did all of them. It was hard to tell by her pictures and the pattern doesn't have a picture of the back so I had to knit a complete pattern to see what would bother me. I decided to only mirror the large diamonds. The other cables are small and far apart and I frankly wasn't in the mood to figure it out. I also didn't want to keep track of more patterns.
I didn't get as much knitting done this weekend as I hoped. Amy was here and I took her on a yarn crawl. It was very hard to control myself with all the luscious stuff I saw, but I took noted for once this sweater is done.
When I could knit, LeeLuu shared her expert advice.

My next goal is to finish the back and compare it to something that is comfortable.