Month: August 2024

Good Ol’ Sleeves

I know I’ll be really glad I have long sleeves on this sweater. I know that, but … sleeves, OMG, do they have to take soooo long?

About 4 years ago I started this: Two Sleeves on 2 circs. It’s the same as working socks two at a time. If you’ve done that, this might be for you.

No second sleeve syndrome for me.

So here I am with the purple sleeves of my 6×6 Cardigan. I knit one inch of knitting on each sleeve separately. Then I slipped the stitches of the sleeves onto two circular needles with the underarm sections facing each other. (You might be able to see that one circular has a blue cord and the other has a red cord.) I put a big pin in the fabric at the underarms of the sleeves to hold them in position on the two circular needles. I’m only about 2″ in so far, with many hours ahead of me.

You know that I really, really, want to cast on something new right now. I’m resisting so far. I can do this, I can, I can?!

Cheers, Deb

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Home again, home again, jiggety, jig

Hi. How was your summer? I took some time off at my northern ontario cabin. Read lots of books, swam a little bit, kayaked and generally took it easy. I hope your summer has been good too.

I did do some knitting.

My 6×6 Cardigan is finished. OK, you might notice it’s not quite finished. I need to sew on the buttons and sew in the ends. Argh, my least favourite part of the whole enterprise. But today I bought buttons so that’s progress. And I went to a knit night and spent my time sewing in the ends. Look at me, being a knitting Adult!

I have made progress on my purple lacey version too. Since this is a bigger size I decided to try something different to extend the raglan lines after the divide row. I’m calling this “fading the raglan lines”.

I think this is going to work. I also have incorporated extra decreases down the sides to take away the extra bust increases I had added earlier. You can also see that I worked some increases for hip shaping too.

I’m so excited to be so close to the bottom of the body. Yay. Next the sleeves. That will involve several evening of tv watching. Moving along. Fall and sweater season is near.

Cheers, Deb

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