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Off Sleeve Island (until the next one)

The knitting for the Vine Yoke cardigan is going well.

I've knitted the right front and the right sleeve.  It's looking a  bit wide / flared but I'm leaving it as is.  I can't face frogging 60 odd rows to do some short rowing, I'll stick to the flared sleeves! Wider than the front!  I'll probably wear this with longer sleeves underneath.

I found that the short rows which were worked on the right front just before knitting the side rows  were very loose, so much so that I've sewn them up!  I just couldn't bear looking at them. I tried wrapping them but that just made a mess.  Dream in Color is very stretchy, any opportunity and the stitches grow. I had to tuck the tops of the stretched stitches over and sew them down too.  

I'm also hoping the yoke flattens out a bit!  But I'm not too fussed about a little bit of ruffling; it adds a bit of texture and interest to the garment.  So far so good, it's a fun knit!  My only gripe is the blue hands - the dye is dropping off the yarn!  I did a quick ravelry search and the consensus seems to be that this is extra dye and after washing I should be OK.

Vine Yoke Cardigan progress

Progress, what progress?

Cast on late Wednesday evening, button band worked.

Thursday I finished the front and started the sleeve.

Friday I decided it really might be too short, even if it dropped a few inches. So last night I started again, adding another 8 stitches to the length.

At 3pm today this was the progress, pretty much what it had been 24hrs earlier.

 

Just about finished that right front, again.  It's only 8 sts more, and it's still very short, but compare:

The original one is wrong side up, btw, in case you thought the pattern was vastly different!

I've nothing else on the needles, except those failed baby cardigans which haven't been frogged yet, so I will work on this today, with the help of the first Star Trek.  Hoping to finish that front and the sleeve before the next post!

Green Thumb wristers

Pattern: Green Thumb (ravelry link here)

Started:14th November

Finished: 18th November

Needles: 3.25mm dpns

Yarn: Debbie Bliss Rialto DK

This is another winner.  It's written out row by row and charted, and the thumb gusset increases are made by yarnovers.  I will be knitting more of this pattern!

Unfortunately I couldn't capture me wearing both gloves (that would involve a self timer or Mr C) so here's one with one on, one off.

 

Much more purple!

Mystery Hat knitalong

One thing which I haven't blogged about yet is a Woolly Wormhead knitalong.  I thought I might do both hats offered, and bought both, but in the end stuck with Mystery Hat B (the easiest one).

Not sure if anyone is knitting this and doesn't want to see a spoiler photo - if so, don't read any further!

Pattern: Woolly Wormhead Mystery Hat Knitalong (ravelry link)

Started: 1st November

Finished: 18th November

Needles: 3.5mm

Yarn: Rooster dk

Lovely simple pattern.  I blocked it quite severely over a large dinner plate, so it's a bit slouchy.

Excuse the photo - I've just had a shower so my hair's wet!

 

and here it is lying fairly flat.  It was a bit blustery outside today!

The first photo captures the colour - it really isn't as orange as in this one!

I'm off work today, and have done NO knitting (it's 3pm).  I only just realised how late it was, and had to rush outside to get some photos!

I'll be working on Vine Yoke today. I'm very alarmed at how short it looks!  I did a tension square and that was fine, spot on, but I've just laid it down to take a photo and it looks like it might be as long as a bolera!  Please, reassure me that it will stretch out!

I couldn't resist

The baby garments aren't grabbing my attention. I'm a bit fed up with small stuff.  I'm still sucked into garment knitting after NaKniSweMoDo.

I think I knew all along that the yarn which was most appealing to me was the latest acquisition, Dream in Color Classy in Bermuda Teal, which meant a choice of three garments - Vine Yoke cardigan, Monday Morning cardigan or Top Down Shawl Collar cardigan.

Guess which one won?

These are tension squares (except my tension squares in garter stitch don't look very square, do they?).  It's the Vine Yoke Cardigan from Twist!  I think I wanted something which was constructed in an unusual way, and this one is side to side.  I'm still not entirely sure which size to knit.  My tension is ok, and I'm thinking of going for negative ease but how much negative?  On ravelry most people seem to like zero to about -2" negative ease.   I find that my shoulders are relatively narrow for my bust size, so it might be negative ease.  At the moment though I'm only knitting the button band and I've gone for the larger size, for length.  I may have to read the pattern through to work out what adjustments to make.

Here's the first bit, the button band.  I've altered the button spacing so that there are less stitches at the top of the band (it looked a bit odd).  Not that you can see from this. An entire evening's knitting!

 

I'm quite excited about this!  I hear it's a quick knit, possibly another November FO, or is that being rather too optimistic?