Oops!
What was I thinking? I didn’t blog on the 2nd. It was a pretty long day, I worked until 9pm at Foster and then we grabbed dinner and went to Abbott Brothers practice until late. Came home and crashed, in fact I fell asleep on the heat vent because I was really cold (it was 42 degrees outside, not my style). I did wake up and go upstairs to sleep through the night, but I didn’t even sit at my computer after work.
I didn’t knit at all yesterday, it was spent preparing to teach a class I hadn’t offered before, an introduction to Microsoft Publisher. The class went fine. I had to miss the Habibis dancing at Aladdins to teach the class, which was a bummer, but I am always happy to have work.
The only creative news is that two days ago I finished the bottom hem on the Since-September sweater and it looks fine. I picked up and knit down on significantly smaller needles, in seed stitch. Then I went down one more needle size for the last round and casting off. It doesn’t flip up even before blocking, and it doesn’t look (to me) that I added on after the fact. It had been flaring out (potentially letting cold air inside the sweater) and this treatment reduced that problem fairly well. It’s still a huge sweater, really too big, but I like ‘em big and bulky, which is just what I got. You could say that the sweater was done, other than working in the ends.
However, the sweater hangs wrong. The back pulls up. I have determined that the problem is that I didn’t make the collar low enough in front which is making it ride funny on the shoulders and pull up in back. I am going to (gasp) tear out the whole neck, stitch a few more shoulder seam stitches together (the collar was too wide also) and then pick up stitches in a different shape for the collar and try again.
Sock news is boring. Same boring purple sox, picked up stitches for the gussets two days ago and didn’t knit a single stitch Friday. I need to start on my swap sox as soon as I find the folks’ measurements in my email program. That will be fun, because they will be from my hand-painted yarns, a nice change from the last two solid-purple pairs I’ve knit.
Still no pictures. Can you see I’m posting just past 8am? Not my best time of the day, but I work at Foster today 9-1 teaching and 2-4 with computer lab. There is no time to scan anything in right now! At least it stopped raining and my headache is gone. And I’ll enjoy working at Foster today. Tonight Temesgen Hussein performs at Altu’s so hopefully we’ll get to go there for dinner. It promises to be a good, though busy, day.
May 3rd, 2003 at 9:43 am
Your September Sweater may be pulling up in the back because the back is too short. You may want to really look at it before you redo the neckline. If, as I suspect, the back is too short, you’ll need to undo the shoulders, and knit some more on the back to give you additional length there. You may be right that it is the front neckline which is causing the problem. You neckline should begin at least three inches before the shoulder seams. It’s hard to tell which is the problem but I’m sure you’ll figure out how to fix it.
May 3rd, 2003 at 11:42 am
Hi,Lynne:
Another thing that will make the back of a sweater hang funny is not making an indentation for a neck in the back, i.e. knitting straight across instead of shaping. If you didn’t shape the neck opening in back you could try that. Sorry for my syntax, my neighborhood has become very trendy and on the next block they had a rave(!!)which went on and on as they do. When I was twenty years younger I would have been there but now a party has to be really good to keep me uyp until four.