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Halfway through the second sleeve

I'd have liked to have finished the sleeve, but I didn't do much knitting last night. I thought that I might frog the back and restart with one of the two remaining skeins, but I'd still need a bit of this skein to finish the cardigan, and it's better of on the back than on the front.

So here is progress. Second sleeve, approximately 50% done.

It's a little too large to carry around, so I've cast on a plain sock. Lorna's Laces, part of GK sock club last year, Hula Kolili.

In the skein it was lovely, orange, turquoise and purple. On the needles it's a bit ... seventies?

These would have to be for me, no-one else would like the colour (apart from Mr C, who might wear turquoise and orange, but possibly not purple).

Back - finished!

Getting there!

I had to rush outside and take a photo at 3pm today, before the light went, so this is progreess with another 30 odd rows to do (14 short rows and 16 rows for underarm, not whole rows).

This third skein of DIC is different from the first two, there's some streaking going on, but frankly not enough to bother me, it's more obvious in the photo.  But I will wind a 4th skein and use that for the second sleeve and the left front. 

Here's the back view at 3pm.

 

It's speeding along!  I might have to have a break soon though, I like several things on the go at once!

And onto the back

This is, on the whole, a fun knit. The fun part is things like short rowing, plugging your size numbers into the instructions, knitting a button band.  The not so fun bits are the bits where you're knitting X number of rows without any extra shaping or casting on.  I'm on that stretch now, knitting the back. I'm about 1/3 of the way through the back rows.  I had to force myself to continue until the second skein was used up (rather than start a small project).  The back's on top, with the right front underneath (button band peeping out on the left).

 

So this is two skeins in. I have five, which I now know will be plenty.  I'm thinking of missing out eight rows on the back, to give a little negative ease (and my back is narrower than my front).

This is a teal colour, much greener than shown.  Every time I work on this I've blue hands and nails. I need to buy a nailbrush to get my nails looking less 'dirty'.

I'm still thinking of casting on something small, this ia a bit big to carry around now, won't fit in a handbag!

Off Sleeve Island (until the next one)

The knitting for the Vine Yoke cardigan is going well.

I've knitted the right front and the right sleeve.  It's looking a  bit wide / flared but I'm leaving it as is.  I can't face frogging 60 odd rows to do some short rowing, I'll stick to the flared sleeves! Wider than the front!  I'll probably wear this with longer sleeves underneath.

I found that the short rows which were worked on the right front just before knitting the side rows  were very loose, so much so that I've sewn them up!  I just couldn't bear looking at them. I tried wrapping them but that just made a mess.  Dream in Color is very stretchy, any opportunity and the stitches grow. I had to tuck the tops of the stretched stitches over and sew them down too.  

I'm also hoping the yoke flattens out a bit!  But I'm not too fussed about a little bit of ruffling; it adds a bit of texture and interest to the garment.  So far so good, it's a fun knit!  My only gripe is the blue hands - the dye is dropping off the yarn!  I did a quick ravelry search and the consensus seems to be that this is extra dye and after washing I should be OK.

Vine Yoke Cardigan progress

Progress, what progress?

Cast on late Wednesday evening, button band worked.

Thursday I finished the front and started the sleeve.

Friday I decided it really might be too short, even if it dropped a few inches. So last night I started again, adding another 8 stitches to the length.

At 3pm today this was the progress, pretty much what it had been 24hrs earlier.

 

Just about finished that right front, again.  It's only 8 sts more, and it's still very short, but compare:

The original one is wrong side up, btw, in case you thought the pattern was vastly different!

I've nothing else on the needles, except those failed baby cardigans which haven't been frogged yet, so I will work on this today, with the help of the first Star Trek.  Hoping to finish that front and the sleeve before the next post!