Right now, I’m preparing for a 5-6 week trip back home and pondering what all to take with me. It’s true that I’ve been knitting more slowly as of late, but part of that is the internet’s fault and when home, I feel it is horribly rude to spend more then a half hour online checking what is important. Meaning, I do a lot less putzing around. Which is going to open up talking/knitting time, since I like to do the two of them together.
Monthly Archives: April 2009
Noticeable silence
I have not blogged about knitting at all this month and there is a good reason for this: I have been throwing a knitting tantrum and been in a foul mood in regards to my hobby. The CPH which was such a joy to knit and was turning out great did a complete 180 when I seamed on the sleeves. They were too small and pulled so much that they made the body too short and it went downhill from there. The sweater is on a time out in the upper-most area of my closet where I will not have to look at it or think much of it for at least 6 weeks. I know what I should do, but as stated, I’m not feeling kind towards it at the moment and decided to just let it sit as-is.
This is the second time I have tried this pattern and had problems with the sleeves. The truth is, I HATE seamed sleeves. I’m not doing them anymore and for set in sleeves, I’m doing them from the top-down as “afterthoughts.” Custom Knits has a great tutorial on how to do them and that’s what I’m going to learn with my next project, if not try it with this one. No more of this knitting to specifications and then finding out the sleeve is almost 10 rows shorter then the sleeve opening it has to fit into stuff. No more trying to wrap it around my arm as I work and it appears to fit just fine and then upon seaming, SURPRISE! too small crap. No more.