New and Newish Beginnings

I finally started my top-down cardigan in Mountain Colors 4/8's, color Silverbow.

I planned this sweater as my next big project to cast on since I picked my needles back up in March after a two-year break. In a rare for me fit of daring, I have not reswatched though I knit the current swatches over two years ago.

I think I'm adequately swatched. As I've said before, I'm a swatcher. I will check my gauge after a couple of inches.

   

   

I plan picot hemmed bands, cuffs, and bottom hem. To co-ordinate I've used YOs for the increases along the raglan shaping lines. Otherwise, it's pretty plain -- lots of simple knitting for blog reading, movie watching, etc.

For the (Un)pattern I follow for my top-downs, I knit a cardigan body flat while I do the sleeves in the round. This could make for a gauge issue for me. I purl notably looser than I knit so my gauges flat and in the round differ too much. To compensate I'm knitting back backwards rather than purling on the body of the sweater. I knit back backwards slightly more tightly than I knit, but my overall gauge comes out much closer to what I knit in the round. I'll post some pictures of this sometime in the next few days.

Today also marks a mini-anniversary of another beginning. Four months ago today I started this blog. One third of a year and 104 posts (counting this one) later I enjoy the almost-daily writing and the daily interactions even more than when I started.

Comments

[Karen]

Hey, remember that Dion also works her sleeves flat (since she hates DPNs) -- after picking up, there are a few awkward rows as you get away from the underarm, but after that it's all smooth sailing.
(Underarm seams is a small price to pay for not having to use DPNs if you hate 'em!)
Just a thought that I didn't get a chance to mention yesterday.
Are you getting your groove on with the knitting-back-backwards already?

Happy blogiversary!
Gladr you enjoy it even more now - great for a newbie blogger to hear!