I am through the first set of the broken rib and I love it. I am doing 12 rows stripes for a very specific reason. I did debate about it as I was knitting. Do I want a single wide band of the pattern or stripes? Do I want pattern bands set off by narrow bands of green? What do I want? It would probably be a good idea to have these things decided before you start to knit. However, this blog is home to wild flight of fancy and indecision. No point in changing now. I landed on the twelve row stripes because of another project I am working on.
That project is what occupied me completely on the weekend.
This is my Lusk Tee. Or sweater. You get both plus a DK version and a fingering version with this Rebecca Clow design. Twelve is one of the numbers she recommends for the pattern if you are striping. It has to do with the shoulder construction and making the stripe easily match at the underarm. And you know what? It is going to work! Even with my slight variation in row gauge, it works. Yes, you could fudge it but it is so amazing when I didn't have to.
I was so happy that I stayed working on Lusk for the entire weekend. I think it is going to be saved for weekend work. Doing that really upped my mojo to finish the Mrs. Hunter's pattern sweater, so I am going to put it into practice again to make some mileage on some of the other longstanding WIP bin projects.
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