TNS: Sleeves
March 21st, 2005 at 7:08 am (the-nanny-sweater)
I bet you thought I had forgotten about The Nanny Sweater!
I’ve been plugging away on the sleeves. It’s going slow as my hands start to hurt if I work on it too long at one time, plus it’s not very portable so the only time I have to work on it is in the evenings after the kids are in bed.
I’m almost done with the sleeves:
I’m doing them at the same time so they come out the same length and the increases are all in the same place without any extra effort. The only bad thing is the two balls of yarn tangle a bit as you turn back and forth. I did the fronts that way too - and it is the best way to go.
I’ve also reblocked the body again. The cables looked a bit flat from it’s first blocking. This time I was more careful and didn’t stretch anything out, and layed it with the back down, and the fronts on top so they came out the same size. It made the length of it 1" shorter, which is good! Based on how much the sweater body grew in blocking, I’ll be stopping the sleeves approx 1" short of what the directions say so they don’t turn into huge monkey sleeves.
