{"id":1673,"date":"2012-03-07T22:45:50","date_gmt":"2012-03-07T21:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1673"},"modified":"2012-03-07T22:45:50","modified_gmt":"2012-03-07T21:45:50","slug":"oh-my","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1673","title":{"rendered":"oh my"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been knitting for a while. It’s a thing I do.<\/p>\n

I recently-ish started a policy of having something on the needles for someone else most of the time. Apart form when I’m in between the projects for other people.<\/p>\n

Lately, my thoughts have turned to Lily and the few mummy-made sweaters she has available. I made her a poncho a few months back, but after an initial very happy reception it’s spent a lot of time in the cupboard.<\/p>\n

Largely I’m at ease with that. I remind myself that I enjoy the process. It’s rare that something is not enjoyable to knit, and it’s also rare that I spend “proper” money on yarn for something for the children, so we can live with something not being worn out.<\/p>\n

Many moons ago I made Lily a cardigan using a sirdar demin self-patterning yarn. When I’d finished it, she said it was lovely, but it wasn’t pink enough. So I gave it away.<\/p>\n

Since then she’s moved on from the pink a bit, but I’ve learnt my lesson. I wanted to knit her the same cardigan, only the yarn I had enough of in the stash was turquoise. I checked that a turquoise sweater would be acceptable. Turns out, she thought it would be.<\/p>\n

So, allowing both of us a bit of room, I started on the age 10-11. As previously documented<\/a>, the skirt around the bottom felt like it would take for ever. So I decided that, seeing as this was going well, we would stick witht he length of the 10-11 age size, but, given that there is absolutely nothing spare on Lily, we might go with the 8-9 width. This meant I could stop knitting 5cm earlier on an interminable length of stocking stitch.<\/p>\n

\"interminable<\/p>\n

However, once this skirty length was finished, it seemed to grow amazingly quickly.<\/p>\n

I was really pleased to be able to use my new favourite cast on – the alternate cable cast on – for starting the sleeves. I loves it, I do. And after some practise, I can do it without having to do it all in one go, keeping track of whether I’m purling or knitting and woe betide all of us if I lose my place.<\/p>\n

The next problem I created for myself was to try to find a matching bind-off. I knew about sewn kitchener bind-off, but the instructions I was aware of (on knitty.com) were an adaptation for working in the round. I interpreted them fully incorrectly for working in the straight, but the results came out quite pretty ON THE SECOND ATTEMPT GRRR so they stayed.<\/p>\n

\"neckline\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I found the proper instructions which basically said to do the set-up rows, then split onto 2 needles, then graft. This made sense. So I started doing it on the button bands (see how I’m missing out the dull bits, Dad?!) and sadly it pulled in by about 1\/3rd, completely distorting the cardigan…<\/p>\n

By this time, I just wanted to finish, so I did a normal bind off. And after all the other faffing, it was simple and looked fine. DEEP SIGH.<\/p>\n

I’d been in dilemmas about the join between the sideways skirt and the upright body and had consulted both @CurlyMinx and Mark at knitwise. I think my eventual solution may have included suggestions from both of them, so thanks to you both for being top sounding boards.<\/p>\n

The pink yarn is from The Stash, the buttons are from Knit Wise and were purchased as a pack to get the buttons used in my other recent project for Lily, which I haven’t blogged about yet \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

Anyway, the reveal:<\/p>\n

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the front… and the back:<\/p>\n

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I even ironed it before taking a picture of it.<\/p>\n

I’m insanely pleased with how this has turned out. I’ve shown these pictures to *everyone*. If you know me and you haven’t seen these, you clearly haven’t seen me in the past week.<\/p>\n

35 days. The beginning bit felt like a *very* long time, but it was worth the glorious finish.<\/p>\n

And the bonus? Lily says she likes it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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