My Blueberry Moon sweater has only received perfunctory attention these past few weeks. The cold snap early last week ignited my interest again. Yesterday it received almost undivided attention and I was able to knit about 200 yards, as well as redo the shoulder seam.
I reduced the number of buttons, expanded the button holes from one stitch to two, and used a 1K2P rib. All day yesterday I mulled over how I could add expanding cables on the bottom half of the sweater using some A-line shaping in the spirit of Vogue's Silver Belle. As soon as I'm done with this ball on the body, I'll start a sleeve to experiment on.
If I had knit as many stitches on my socks last night as I did on this sweater I would have had both hubby's earth socks and the regia silk self striping socks done. Well, not exactly. I realize stockinette stitch on a 36" needle goes a heck of a lot faster than mostly stockinette on three size US1 dpns. My inner castigator, she prefers to believe the former.
At least I got through two of our netflix movies which I never could have properly watched knitting socks.
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Absolutely loved the pic of your dog posing with new coat! Hmmm ... wonder how long it'd take me to knit one's for my 3 mutleys???
Blog-Blethers, you'd be surprised how fast they knit up.