More plate cleaning
Only in recent weeks have I realized just how many unfinished projects I have! Or had, because I'm gradually working my way through them. The one I'm finishing up now is yet another sweater from Debbie Bliss's Baby Knits for Beginners: the "jacket with seed-stitch bands." (It's a simple five-button cardigan.) This was the first knitting book I bought, which explains a disproportionate number of my projects have come from it. The designs are nice and streamlined and--if you can get past Bliss's annoying practice of listing only her own yarn, which is sold by weight without yardage marked anywhere on the package--not terribly frustrating to make.
I'm using her baby cashmerino yarn in a lovely chocolate-brown color--partly because I adore brown, partly because I don't like dressing Sylvia in "girly" stuff all the time (she has a few pink items, but mostly her wardrobe tends to earth tones), and mostly because I bought this yarn on sale two years ago at my then-local yarn shop, where it was in the $4/ball bargain basket. Two years ago I finished the back of this sweater (in the 18m size), then got maybe a dozen rows into the left front before putting this project away. I resurrected it again five days ago and decided just to restart the left front piece. I also undid the two bindoffs at the top of the back piece, instead moving those stitches onto two different stitch holders. After doing the three-needle bindoff on one shoulder of Anouk, I've decided I'm never going back to seaming shoulders again if I can help it. The three-needle technique is so sturdy and simple--no need to line up stitches for seaming, 'cause all you need to do it pair them off on the needles, where they're easily visible!
Here's where I am right now. The seed stitch isn't easy to see because of the dark yarn and the lousy camera. It's along the bottoms of both pieces, and along the button band of the left-front piece (which is on the right of the photo). The cat, Beowulf, is giving me a dirty look in this photo because I took it right after yelling at her to stop playing with the yarn tails.
I'm using her baby cashmerino yarn in a lovely chocolate-brown color--partly because I adore brown, partly because I don't like dressing Sylvia in "girly" stuff all the time (she has a few pink items, but mostly her wardrobe tends to earth tones), and mostly because I bought this yarn on sale two years ago at my then-local yarn shop, where it was in the $4/ball bargain basket. Two years ago I finished the back of this sweater (in the 18m size), then got maybe a dozen rows into the left front before putting this project away. I resurrected it again five days ago and decided just to restart the left front piece. I also undid the two bindoffs at the top of the back piece, instead moving those stitches onto two different stitch holders. After doing the three-needle bindoff on one shoulder of Anouk, I've decided I'm never going back to seaming shoulders again if I can help it. The three-needle technique is so sturdy and simple--no need to line up stitches for seaming, 'cause all you need to do it pair them off on the needles, where they're easily visible!
Here's where I am right now. The seed stitch isn't easy to see because of the dark yarn and the lousy camera. It's along the bottoms of both pieces, and along the button band of the left-front piece (which is on the right of the photo). The cat, Beowulf, is giving me a dirty look in this photo because I took it right after yelling at her to stop playing with the yarn tails.
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