After seeing several of my friends taking awesome pictures with instagram I finally jumped on the wagon and joined. The app, particularly it's website, still confuses the hell out of me; but I am taking a lot more pictures that I'm happy with now. I also don't have to drag out my d-SLR every time I want to take a progress picture of my current projects, which, of course, means I'm taking a lot more pictures of my knitting.
Last I wrote, I mentioned that I was trying to make a cardigan based on the following drawing:
It's my heavily modifying version of Carol Feller's Iced made from Plymouth Superwash Worsted Wool. I've been trying to make a cardi for myself for years now. Actually, I finished all but the wrist of one sleeve using the same yarn before I admitted to myself that it was really poorly fitted. Still, it took me a year (maybe two!) to bring myself to frog it.
I started this iteration of the cardi at the beginning of the month. Overall it's been a pretty easy knit. The sleeves, which are vine panels from Knitting on the Edge, were the hardest part.
But since it's a raglan I wasn't working on the vine panels for too long before I focused only on the stockinette stitch body.
And then of course 2x2 rib stitching is pretty easy too, even when you have to pick up 140 + stitches.
But one thing I did forget about this yarn in particular was how elastic it was. Hopefully I can do a hard block on just the rib stitches and they won't unblock themselves.
Until then, I have sleeves to work on.
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