An update of The Work, in progress:
So far, I have two sleeves, both of which kinda sorta look a little like this:
and have started the back:
look, a pattern!
The sleeves were not hard at all. Hello: seed stitch! I kind of changed around the cuffs, because I thought it was dumb to have a flap, and it made sense to me to sew them into each other and make a seam.
The back… well, let’s just say that this photo above is the result of starting six times. Also, I had to go get another longer needle because the one I thought I got at Knit Happens kinda disappeared. I went on a mad trek to not one but both locations of Stitch DC (and, for those who were wondering: go to the Capitol Hill store. Just sayin’… I felt like I was interrupting somebody’s knitting circle for help. Sorry! I’ll remember that the next time I need yarn, which, um, they kind don’t have there, either) to procure. There have been two dropped stitches in this thing, but you can’t tell unless you look real hard. My mom’s advise: it may take an extra two minutes, but at the end of the wrong side row: count ‘em! That way, you’ll be able to catch the drop and go back top fix it.
One thing I am getting good at: unknitting when there’s a cable needle involved.
It’s exciting, I’ll say… it’s not really so much difficult as it is paying close attention, knowing when I’m too tired to make sure I’m doing it right, getting my whole set up, including the pattern, the chart of stitches which also acts as a row guide, the phone or remote to act as a weight on top of this whole scheme, a pen to mark off where I’m at, and… making sure that I’m not disturbing a cat that might be sitting on my lap:
