Back to knitting.
I spent most of the day on Cassie's sweater. I am now at 13 inches from the underarm. No split. It felt wrong the more I thought about it. But I love how it is looking.
I have 4 more inches to go before I cast off for her optimal length. My original plan was to do the exact finishing that the Cloud sweater has...BUT this acrylic and nylon yarn is going to be so soft when it is washed that I am concerned that the Cloud finishing technique is going to look a bit odd.
I still want to finish off with a rolled hem. That is a detail Cas really likes. I might make it with my occasionally used trick of knitting a couple rows of reverse stockinette, then a couple rows of stockinette, repeated till it does not roll and finishing off with 6 or more rounds of stockinette that should roll. I also might just let it roll naturally and see what happens over time. I am sure the yarn will drape and relax but the question is will it relax too much?
I also have questions about the sweater swatch cowl.
I knit 5 ridges of garter stitch and 10 rows stockinette. In the 3.5 mm needle, the gauge is fine, but when I go up to 4 mm tips, it's a bit too wide looking. The sweaters I saw knit in this basic pattern were knit with 6 ridges and 6 rows or other combinations where the numbers of ridges matched the number of rows. It means that the ridges part of the knitting makes slightly wider sections than the colourful stockinette portions. Interesting. This is exactly why I needed to knit something more than my usual swatches to play around with this. I need to see it in action and try various things before I knit the sweater.
Time to get moving with knitting and with the usual household chores. Time for that special second cup of coffee or maybe even a cup of English breakfast tea. Time to finish reading Michael Palin's Erebus, a rousing adventure tale of the history of that particular ship. Time to make. Time to do. This is a pretty darn good life.
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