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Friday 14 Aug 2009
Five On Friday
Since last Friday, I . . . .
. . . . went to a baseball game with DH:
. . . . took my son to his favorite barbecue joint.
He got the burnt ends:
I got the red beans and rice.:
. . . . finished my blue sweater (linky to Ravelry project page):
. . . . started a new sweater (NaKniSweMoDo #12!):
. . . . and met with some friends for our annual back-to-school breakfast up Millcreek Canyon:
I can’t believe school’s starting in a little more than a week! DD makes her 2009/2010 cheerleading debut tonight at the Blue/Gold scrimmage.
Friday 31 Jul 2009
Five On Friday
This week’s “Five On Friday” is brought to you by my cell phone camera.
Since last Friday, I . . . .
. . . started a new sweater:
. . . went to a baseball game and put the cup holder on the back of the seat to good use:
. . . got a haircut (probably should have had the stylist take care of the grey, too):
. . . surreptitiously took a photo of the FLDS protest in front of the state courthouse while stopped at a red light:
. . . chose a yarn to use for Margene’s Feather Duster KAL:
And you??
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Sunday 05 Apr 2009
Inflexible
Slinky Ribs is done! Well, it just needs to be blocked.
And I had 4 grams of yarn left. *Phew*
After continuing to fiddle with the neckband, I decided to just keep it simple. I picked up stitches around the neckline and then immediately cast them off in purl. That’s it. Clearly, I was overthinking it.
I vowed that I wouldn’t become equally obsessed with the bind off for the sleeves. But one of the main reasons I dislike top-down sweaters like Slinky Ribs is that the bottom edge of the sleeves and the body is bound off, instead of cast on. And bound-off edges tend to be inflexible and less attractive than cast-on edges. This is especially true for ribbing. It’s difficult to get a flexible edge and no flare.
My first attempt at binding off the sleeve was a miserable failure. It flared and basically looked like crap. I needed a bind off that was flexible, but firm.
I settled on a tubular bind off for 2×2 rib. I first tried following the instructions in Principles of Knitting but, between you and me, I got completely lost. So I turned to the instructions in the Fall 2008 issue of Interweave Knits. Excellent instructions! It worked like a dream.
I went back over the stitches and pulled them fairly tight after the bind off was completed and the sleeves don’t flare at all.
Now I’m just hoping this Felted Tweed yarn softens up in the wash.
And, look. I celebrated by casting on a new sweater.
*Apparently, I have a reputation for being somewhat inflexible. Who knew.
