First contact with the enemy.
Sep. 8th, 2010 08:51 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stitchy_stitchy1) I'm definitely taking out every other lace block - I found a photo on Ravelry where someone had done it, and it still looks fabulous, but a little less like it needs something under it. Which means...
2) I am making the 42.5" back, not the 47" back, because I can't count: the 47" back had an even number of segments, not an odd number, so "take out every other lace block" would have left an extra segment hanging under one armpit. I probably could have fudged that, but I didn't feel that ambitious, and I'm feeling more confident about my ability to make different sizes work together, because...
3) I found the Ravelry thread where Joan McGowan-Michael was talking about doing that, and she said she just uses the shaping for the same size armhole and shoulders on front and back, and fudges the extra fabric out of the chest area. Moment of "DUH" here...
4) I think I purl way looser than I knit. When I'm doing the purl rows, everything is fine, but on knit rows it feels like the stitches just want to fall off the left needle. I might have to get some less-slippery needles - or maybe switch up my purling technique. But also...
5) I think the gauge swatch may have lied, but I think I'm going to need to work a few more rows before I can measure properly and find out for sure. It's possible I need smaller less-slippery needles - which will involve a trip to the needle stash rather than the yarn store, which is good.
6) Not relevant to the sweater, but I vaguely recall that one of my mom's best friends when I was a small child was named Joan McGowan. I know it's a small world, but that would be too weird.
2) I am making the 42.5" back, not the 47" back, because I can't count: the 47" back had an even number of segments, not an odd number, so "take out every other lace block" would have left an extra segment hanging under one armpit. I probably could have fudged that, but I didn't feel that ambitious, and I'm feeling more confident about my ability to make different sizes work together, because...
3) I found the Ravelry thread where Joan McGowan-Michael was talking about doing that, and she said she just uses the shaping for the same size armhole and shoulders on front and back, and fudges the extra fabric out of the chest area. Moment of "DUH" here...
4) I think I purl way looser than I knit. When I'm doing the purl rows, everything is fine, but on knit rows it feels like the stitches just want to fall off the left needle. I might have to get some less-slippery needles - or maybe switch up my purling technique. But also...
5) I think the gauge swatch may have lied, but I think I'm going to need to work a few more rows before I can measure properly and find out for sure. It's possible I need smaller less-slippery needles - which will involve a trip to the needle stash rather than the yarn store, which is good.
6) Not relevant to the sweater, but I vaguely recall that one of my mom's best friends when I was a small child was named Joan McGowan. I know it's a small world, but that would be too weird.
