Eek a Steek!
August 1st, 2004 at 2:45 pm (hardangervidda)
Step 1 of Hardangervidda’s body is complete. I stayed up late last night to finish the last 4 rows and put all the shoulder stitches on separate holders.
Front neck before steeking:
Front neck after:
I did steek the back neck, but it was only four rows, and no pattern (although one color change) so I should have just gone back and forth there. Owell. I ended up doing the tiniest steek here.
Back before steeking:
Back after steeking:
And here is the body, actually looking somewhat like a sweater:
Ain’t it gorgeous? I still have the 3 stitch wide steek to sew & cut for the zipper. I’m going to wait until I read through directions for that section before cutting. I wish I had made that one 5 stitches wide like I did the neck part. Owell - hopefully the sweater will survive my audacity to think I could handle a 3 stitch wide steek!
You might also have noticed that I left the back neck stitches on a holder - that should save time when it comes to picking up stitches along the back. I didn’t do that for the front because I knew I’d be cutting there again and wasn’t quite sure how the finishing would go.
