The weather has turned cooler here in the mountains with lows in the 40s and 50s and temps barely and briefly creeping past 70 in the mid afternoon. The Lovely fall weather is making me wish my sweater was done already.
I recently came to the end of my second skein and needed to wash up some more. I had noticed while swatching that my hands turned blue, so I am washing the skeins prior to working with them to get the excess dye off.
Despite work and superbaby trying to “learn” how to knit I have managed to make some knitting progress as well.
There has been much stockinet (without cables or bobbles to break it up) and lots of holders as I did some shaping, but I have exciting news. I have shoulders now! My green tube is starting to look like an actual sweater.
Halfway through kitchener-ing my first shoulder seam I noticed a problem…Kitchener is for stockinette and I am doing reverse stockinette. I had a very out of place bit of knit stitches in the middle of my Purls.
Google to the rescue! It turns out that you simply reverse the Kitchener steps to graft purl stitches. It worked and now I am ready to make my neckline and sleeves.
Jessica lives in the cesspool of sin (aka: Asheville, NC) with her husband and Superbaby. She enjoys knitting, spinning, hiking and has recently become obsessed with Downton Abby and True Blood. She continues her search for a way to keep work from cutting into her crafting time.
