Only a bit

I joined at the underarm and knit a few rounds.  All is ready for a try on.

And now I am going to rip back.

It's just three rows so not a biggie.  The arms openings are not quite right and I would rather they be right.  

So, back to the drawing board, but only a bit.

So many choices. So much fun.

My knitter errant ways continued.  The upper back is compete and front 1 is at the base of the collar.

Front 2 is picked up and needs to be knit and joined to make the complete front.  There are a couple inches of working across the full front but it wont take long.  The shaping is leaning to the general shaping of a Lipstick sweater.  It's a good thing too considering how far into it I am.  

I have had company the last couple days.  My brother stopped by.  It is always great to visit but I need to be more responsible about feeding people and tidying up when company is here.  The world can fall around me if I am knitting on my own.  I am not quite as far as I hoped and yet I am pretty pleased with my progress.  The gauge of the sweater is 4 stitches per inch and it is working up nice and fast.

Because I am working with a limited yarn color issue particularly for this light grey, I am going to knit the sleeves as soon as the upper body is complete.  Not quite sure yet how they will look.  I prefer all grey but because of the yarn issue, there might be a switch to the bleached white with the colourwork zigzag from Cait and the darkest grey lice like the bottom section of the Cait.   Or perhaps they will be only white with the lice.

So many choices.  So much fun.

How did that happen?

With five other active sweater knits, all of which I am eager to finish and wear, I have no business starting anything else.  And yet here I am.  And to think, I was concerned about becoming a monogamous project knitter.

I am knitting the Briggs and Little Regal that I said I had a plan for.  I do have a general plan, but in some ways, my needles seem to be leading me to an entirely new place. 

I saw Ann Budd's Cait sweater when the pattern was published.  I love the clean fit of it.  I love the simplicity of the colouwork.  You don't need tons of colourwork for a big impact. And I felt pretty sure that the fit of the sweater would be great considering my constant referrals and use of her books, A Knitter's Handy Book of Sweater Patterns, A Knitter's Handy Book of Patterns and The Knitter's Handy Book of Top Down Sweater Patterns.  I use these books all the time.  

The problem is that I don't want to knit such a lightweight sweater as Cait at the moment.  I want this simple design idea in my Regal yarn. So I pulled out The Knitter's Handy Book of Sweater Patterns and I am using the design dimensions from the modified drop shoulder sweater.  Or rather, that is where I started.  

All of a sudden the shoulder shaping from my Hacho yarn project popped into my head and my needles sort of wandered that way, only I had a full back width cast on.  Joji starts Lipstick, the pattern I am knitting with my Hacho, with the shoulders on a provisional cast on,  joined at the neckline after some shaping is begun.  I goofed around and that is when it hit me.  

What I was doing was the general back shaping from Ysolda Teague's Anyday Sweatshirt  . It is a bit hard to see it here but it is.  Interesting.  I am going to keep going here and see what I get..

I have no idea what this thing is going to turn out to be, but so far it is an intriguing journey.