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Thursday, August 23, 2012

It goes on & on & on

I am knitting with the skein that won't quit.  Seriously.  This Miss Babs Yowza - Whatta Skein! is starting to feel like the never ending skein.  I am ~11.5 inches from the underarm of my cardigan to the bottom edge and I have 23 grams of yarn (57 yards) left in the first skein.  I'm beginning to think that I'm going to be able to finish the cabling on the back before starting the second skein, which will put me in good shape to finish the arms & ribbing without running out of yarn.


Okay, so where am I at in the cardigan?  On 8/16 I finished all the instructions on page 37, which left me deciding if I should do the errata to increase the circumference of the sleeves & depth of the yoke.  After much hemming and hawing and of course Ravelry research (no joke, I read TONS of Ravelry project pages & threads related to the cardigan), I ultimately decided to follow the errata instructions.  My decision was influenced on my research, but also on the fact that if the arms did come out too big for, then I could decrease stitches more rapidly/easily then it would have been to add stitches.
Nerd alert! I made an excel spreadsheet for the increases!
On 8/17 I finished the errata and split for the sleeves.  Now here is where my progress slowed, at least compared to my initial progress.  I know what you are thinking, didn't you just cast on for this on 8/14?  How can you possibly say it's slowing down?  Well, I guess it just felt like I slowed down.  While I was initially pretty enthusiastic about knitting the back, it quickly began somewhat less appealing as the inches crept on.

This cardigan is knitting up pretty quickly and I'm already beginning to feel the itch to knit more garments.  Or at least more cardigan type garments.  As far as fit, I'm still on the fence.  When I try the cardigan on, the fit seems good, maybe even great, but I'm concerned that the ribbing is going to change how I feel about it.  The good thing is that it keeps me motivated to knit on it because I'm excited to see how the ribbing is going to affect the fit.



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