16 May 2017

Finally finished Shellseeker and can now concentrate fully on this instead of knitting alongside jumping between the two. I have feel for the flow of this now pattern now.

As with my last Sous Sous I am knitting through the back loop of the purl stitches on the wrong side of the garment to keep this looking neat on the right side.

I also do a double YO after the P3tog decrease and before the knit which follows, so both my holes either side of the P3tog match in size.

I do a lifeline on every 1st row of the 16 row pattern repeat. I always have 2 lifelines in place at any one time, moving the thread from the furthest from my live work up to the new 1st row of the chart.

Sample of the back photographed on the lawn is truest colour of this lovely wool. If you look closely you can see my two ivory coloured life-lines.

Addi long lace as ever - great for the TBL and P3tog.

06 June 2017

Back complete and front set up and started. This is one of these projects which looks daunting but it actually has a rhythm to it. For this reason I shall not be doing my usual of having several other projects on the go & rotating round them all, but am pressing on with this, since if I move away from this project I know I will forget the sequencing which I have off pat in my head but I know I would lose if I left it and had to come back to work on it.

Forgot to pull out the 2 life-lines, just visible, in the back before I took the photo of the completed back.

4 July 2017

It’s now time to graft the live shoulder stitches of the front to the bound off stitches of the shoulders on the back.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XS188cghQ6E

25 July 2017

All done. No mods, followed pattern as set. Was going to lengthen sleeves but left as they were, however I did make the middle sized sleeves for the small size jumper, as the first sleeve I knit in the small was too tiny, and I have slim arms so goodness knows how it would be on a thicker arm.