25 September 2016

Hurrah! at last sleeves joined to body. Am nearly going crazy with all this mind numbing round and round plain knitting, can’t wait to add in colour for yoke & start on pattern design, another few rows and I can do so.

27 September 2016

It would appear I am incapable of knitting a row of 300 plus stitches for the Fair Isle section without getting to the end of a row and realising I have made an error. I have just had to tink back 3 rows. Counted my stitches to double check, started afresh, again got to the end only to find I was not ending my row correctly, and there it was, more than 2/3 back to tink for a knit 3 instead of knit 2, grrrrrrrr!

06 October 2016

Soooo nearly finished this. Thought I’d get creative with the neck and do some corrugated rib, but I don’t like it, (see pics of this) will tink back and do in plain blue ribbing, however plan to not do as the pattern but knit longer and fold over on itself to make neck double thickness and more robust.

Marked centre back of neck, and then placed markers 33 stitches out each side of this and worked some short rows, to raise the back of the jumper. On my size medium this was working on the 2 rear quarters - left and right of centre back - of the whole neckline. Having tried it on before doing this, it was found to be sitting too far down at the back, and would most certainly have been drafty nor did it look very good. Now on K1, P1 rib on collar.

13 October 2016

I did a turned in collar, see 3 pics grouped 1 - 3, of neck pinned then stitched. I did not cast off but stitched one live stitch to every stitch at the head of its row on the start of the collar, this made a very neat & elastic finish. I got the information for this from one of my Elizabeth Zimmerman books.

I also discovered from the same book, after the event, that my short rows would have been best to come well round to the front of the jumper, instead of ending on top of the shoulder as I did, since I will apparently end up with a hump at the back with my method, I will be able to add this to my own hump! Well now I know for another time.

Finished jumper some days ago, but only just got round to bathing it and hanging it on my Jumper board to dry. Photos of it being worn to follow when dry.

16 December 2016

I have unpicked the neck, it sat all wrong and gaped. Now I have made a polo neck, will post pics. I also need to shorten the sleeves but at present it can be worn with the cuffs folded back.