03-06-2020

This wool really wasn’t very suitable - the neckline is lopsided due to casting off with a thick bit on one side and a thin bit on another. I’m really not sure which these thick-and-thin yarns can be intended for! I thought a plain stocking-stitch pattern would be a good use for it, but the results are not very appealing.

02-06-2020

There appears to be an error in the final decrease row: k2, YO, k2tog, k5, *k9, k2tog*, repeat * 3x, k1   (41sts)
As written, this decreases from 43 stitches to 40: 4 + 5 + (10×3) + 1
Since the pattern states “dec 4 sts evenly”, I suspect there is a missing k2tog after the k5; perhaps the author was confused by the decrease+increase for the buttonhole and thought she had done her four decreases?

01-06-2020

Lots of ‘pooling’ between the thin and thick sections of this yarn; we have thick lumpy yellow patches and pink ones with holes you can actually see through. I wonder what the intended effect was supposed to be? I don’t remember the issue being so bad on the original Rose-gold bolero I made with this yarn, so it may be more obvious on a doll-scale garment. It’s just a pity that the ‘thin’ sections tend to occur on the garter-stitch borders, which makes the texturing fairly invisible. I wasn’t terribly pleased to find a knot in it, either; I thought it wouldn’t show and didn’t bother ripping back to the start of the row, but of course it tends to work through to the front. :-(

I completed my four inches of body on a wrong-side row, and assumed it wouldn’t matter as the rest of the garment was in garter stich anyway. Probably a mistake, as the armhole cast-off now occurs on the reverse side and rolls outwards.

29-05-2020

It turns out that this is knitted from the bottom up, like a ‘normal’ jumper, instead of working top-down like all the other doll patterns I’ve been making. So the 48 stitches (~10 inches) is actually the body size, and the increases to 56 stitches create a wider top. I wonder if the result is going to be a bit large?