Well….the seaming is done. And for the record I’m not happy…
Despite checking gauge at the beginning of the project and following the pattern to the letter….this sweater is FAR too short. It falls just above my natural waist and no where near my hips where I would like. Harumph…
I have two options:
A) Gift this to my sister who has a much shorter torso but the same bust measurement.
B) Add more garter rib around the bottom to extend the length….
Thoughts from the blogosphere?
The knitting is done on my Sprout Cardigan!
This is the knitted piece all laid out flat. I was a proper knitter and washed/blocked the piece before attempting to seam it. Being that this is acrylic I’m not sure that it helped any, lol. But I really want this piece to turn out. So what could it hurt?
This is what the back of the garment should look like after seaming. 
Project info:
Pattern: Sprout Cardigan
Yarn: Berroco Comfort Chunky
Size: Medium
Needle: US 9s
Jellybean’s blanket is slowly making progress. At the last update I’d almost completed two rows. My recent sock addiction has bitten into the time I’ve spent on this project. According to my pregnancy app I’ve only got 100 days or so to get this wrapped up. I’m onto the third row as we speak.
I can sit and make 1 and 1/2 hexagons an evening. So I really just to buckle down and finish this so Jellybean has something to curl up in, lol. I think six rows should make an adequate baby blanket. That makes me just under halfway…I hope….
Summer in Kansas is in full swing! During a recent trip to my parents house I noticed the cherry trees were ripe and ready to go. Two and a half hours later and five large ice cream buckets later, this pregnant lady was hot and tired. And, I might note, the three trees were only half picked!
As reward for my sweaty work I went home with two buckets of pitted and washed fruit. My most favorite jam of all time is cherry. So after a quick trip to the grocery store for sugar and pectin. I transformed all that fruit into jar after jar of delicious jam. Three hours and some swollen ankles I have this…
My June #sockswithsarah socks now have heel gussets! Last we spoke I had just completed the foot portion.
The gussets did prove to be a lot of stitches mushed together on one needle and yes I dropped a few that had to be picked up! I also had some pooling in the color changes. Slightly annoying but not bothersome enough for me to change, lol.
All in all….still very happy and excited at how fast they are going! LOVE two at a time socks, even in my unique way!
I’ve completed the first section of my Sprout Cardigan! Pardon for the scrunched up look, there are a LOT of bunched up live stitches on that holder.
I’ve started on the second section (same as the first) and just finished my second ball of yarn. This project is garter stitch + bulky yarn + large needles = heaven. Right in both my comfort wheel house for a preggo project 🙂
Here’s hoping I can keep my mojo going and get it done before Jellybean gets here in October!
Happy Knitting!!
I splurged on a new toy for socks!
I picked these Addi Turbo 8″ inch size 0 circs for a reasonable price from Jimmy Beans Wool. I have a pair of socks on my needles right now but I’ll have to test these on my next pair!
Anyone else tried these?
Just a quick update for my latest #sockswithsarah project. I’ve finished the foot section of each sock and I’m starting the gussets!
I just love watching the stripes form row after row….
(P.s. This photo is of them inside out. I was too lazy to turn them for a photo, lol.)
Happy FO Friday! I have finished my Everlasting Bagstopper!!
The knitting was really really fast. Just about a week of evenings and one weekend. The pattern is easily memorized. Here are the details:
Pattern: Everlasting Bagstopper
Yarn: Lily Sugar N Cream Cotton in yellow
Needles: US 5 and US 10 1/2
Straps: I picked up some yellow grosgrain ribbon with white polka dots as I had no desire to knit straps, lol.
I used approximately 266.4 yards or 155 grams. This was about 2.2 skeins of yarn. I have oodles of this cotton hanging out in my stash and this was a GREAT stash-busting project! This would be a pattern I’d definitely repeat, especially for a quick gift knit.
Happy Friday!
My Plain Rye has been languishing in my project bag as the weather has grown warmer. Definite SSS as I have finished the first one but only the cuff of the second. I have a hard time working on any project that I’m not “in love with” at the time. So to the back of the closet it goes!
I still have the urge to work on a sock and to keep up with Socks With Sarah. Eons ago I picked some actual fingering weight sock yarn: Lorna’s Laces Soulmate in the Hawaii colorway:
How gorgeous right? So I pulled this from my stash and divided evenly into two cakes. I even made sure that I started each cake at the same point in the color change pattern. I feel like a proper sock knitter! 🙂
I picked a vanilla toe-up sock with gusset heal that is a variation of a pattern by Wendy Johnson. I’m working a total of 74 stitches on US 0 DPN needles. The pattern was written for magic loop but I’m working using three needles.
I don’t know if this is “right” or “wrong” but since I have five DPNs I’m working the socks in a sort of two at a time fashion. Two needles per sock and the fifth to work the live stitches. I plan to work each pattern section (toe, foot, turn the heel, etc) for each sock before moving to the next section. Hopefully this helps me produce two matching socks and avoid SSS, lol.
And as a pleasant consequence, I don’t have much of a laddering problem between the needles as I only have two needle changes (instead of the four I had with my Rye Socks). And I’m knitting the first stitch on each needle twisted and making sure to pull tightly. This is helping me to create a more even fabric. Check it out!
P.S. I’m TOTALLY in love with these colors. Really helps me power past the tiny yarn on tiny needle problem I usually face with socks.
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