Good Knitting

It was lovely to have a normal weekend. Quiet and no heavy chores, just knitting and setting puzzles and reading, with cocoa and coffee and the occasional tea filling in the corners. 

I did move the marker on Friday evening and though it doesn't look like much knitting, 

it is.  It is starting to fee like a sweater instead of a yoke that I am just knitting around and around on. There are a good four inches at the underarm now and that is progress.  If I didn't have the marker though, I would hardly know it.  

I am pretty happy with it so far.  It is going to be such a fun sweater to wear. 

I am stealing myself about the grey Regal sweater that I am doing, the one with Mrs. Hunter's pattern on the yoke. One of the things that made me set it aside for a bit is that it is time to check the top and see how the raglan sleeves are doing.  

The last couple sweaters, raglan or not have been a bit too small at the upper arms. For this sweater, which I am calling Mrs. Hunter's Business, I was determined not to repeat the mistake.  I started the raglan with double the number of sleeve stitches as I used on the red Third Coast sweater.  Now I am worried about the sleeves getting too wide before I  have a comfortable underarm depth. I am going to put the garment on some waste yarn and do some serious measuring.  I am also going to see how it looks.  I know that the lace pattern is placed properly to do a panel of lace down the front after I switch to stockinette but I am not sure about the sleeves.  I hope to be able to do the same thing down to the cuff too.  If I laid out the lace badly, I am not sure what I want to do.  

If it would look wrong ie, if the lace is not centered decently at the top of the sleeve, the yarn might well be a candidate for a rip back to make that Staffin sweater that I want.  

I did do some serious thinking about Staffin.  I mean, it isn't like I don't have other yarn choices for it. I do.  Many, in fact.  I know if I have a good think about the yarns I have in my stash, the ones on Ravelry and the ones that never quite made it there, I have a lot of yarns in the right weight and quantity for a sweater, and  a few more choices for a vest.

I  love having a generous stash. Time to play in it again soon.