Persistent Knitter

I finished the back of The Nanny Sweater last weekend if you can believe it.

The colors really aren’t very true, but it was as good as I could get it with such little time.
25" tall, and just the right width (have no idea what that is right now, and it will block slightly wider)

Calculations Ahoy

After finishing the back, I spent the next evening’s knitting time with paper and pen and calculating what to do for the two fronts.  You’d think I could just blindly follow the pattern, but since I’m making a size smaller than any that are in the pattern itself, we have to do a little math.

It’s easy for the back - you just cast on 2 less repeats and there ya go.  The shoulder shaping stumped me until I realized what the shaping was for. It’s basically to let the sweater hang down a little bit where the drop sleeves are.  Based on the new sizing, I now know how many stitches are going to be considered shoulder stitches.

So how about the two fronts of the cardigan? I have figured out how many stitches to cast on, and will have to do a bit more thinking about the neck line decreases when I get there. I need to make sure I end up with the same number of shoulder stitches as the back.  An hour or so with pen and paper should hopefully eliminate any ripping time.

Next on the Agenda

I’ve also finished the pocket linings. No pictures yet, sorry.  Have started both fronts.  My friend Dianne suggested I knit both fronts at the same time so that they come out the same size.  That’s what I’m doing. The tangling of the yarns is driving me a bit batty; the yarn doesn’t slip-n-slide as I would want it to.

So on the pocket linings - being the non-joiner that I am, I couldn’t just knit the pocket linings as directed. I had to change it up a bit. Directions say to knit in stockinette until 6" long. I though that’d be an unholy mess of rolling fabric to try and sew down.  I’m doing a moss stitch border around the whole thing (only three stitches wide) so they are laying fairly flat.