Check-In Post August 17th 2021

[badly_knitted]

Hello to all members, and welcome to our regular daily check-in post. Just leave a comment below to let us know how your current projects are progressing, or even if they're not.

Checking in is NOT compulsory, check in as often or as seldom as you want, this community isn't about pressure it's about encouragement, motivation, and support. Crafting is meant to be fun, and what's more fun than sharing achievements and seeing the wonderful things everyone else is creating?

There may also occasionally be questions, but again you don't have to answer them, they're just a way of getting to know each other a bit better.


Today's Question: No question today.


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I now declare this Check-In OPEN!

Comments

[badly_knitted]

Made it through another 20 rows so now I'm up to the front neck shaping, which I think I've worked out so I'll know what I'm doing tomorrow.

Also spent more time browsing though my patterns and I think I've found a good one for the dark red yarn, assuming I don't find something I like better.

The downside is that it's way too wide (138 stitches!), so it will require some fiddling. It has vertical lace panels with moss stitch (or possibly double moss stitch, I can't remember offhand) in between. If I take out two moss stitches from each panel and only do p1 each side of the lace panels instead of p2, I can get it down to 120 stitches, which should be okay. It'll mean using another pattern for the neck shaping, the one from my red cable sweater which has the same number of stitches, but that's manageable. It's also drop shouldered so no messing with armhole shaping.

Still got a lot of magazines to look through though, so plans might still change...

[smallhobbit]

The pattern sounds pretty, but you'll have to make a note of the adjustments, so you don't forget what you're doing!

[badly_knitted]

I already have so I know what to do if I use that pattern. Once I get the pattern set it should be easy enough to keep track. The first few rows are always the hardest. The lace parts are pretty simple.

[peaceful_sands]

The search narrows! It's exciting I can't wait to hear whether this becomes the final decision or whether something else ends up in the mix before the final decision. I don't have the confidence/experience/knowledge to amend patterns so am in awe when other people can do that.This does sound like a great pattern.

Well done on the forward progress on the current project.

[badly_knitted]

Thanks!

It's not so difficult when working with a pattern for a drop-shouldered sweater since the only shaping on the body is for the neck, and if you have another pattern with the same number of stitches you can follow that for the neck instead. The sleeves can be slightly trickier, but in many patterns you find that sleeve increases often leave you with the same number of stitches as the back. Once you know how many stitches you want to finish with, and what you need to cast on for a comfortable cuff, the calculations aren't too complicated. I might use the other pattern for sleeve shaping too.

[peaceful_sands]

I made it up past the waist of Mickey's robe (just), finished the last bit of shadow that I was too tired to do the night before and did a bit of work on the flooring. I'm about 9 stitches away from having completely finished the right hand side of the design bar the backstitched outlining. I'm working on Mickey, but other items on the left are a book, more floor and a cave side/little bit of ceiling.

[badly_knitted]

Wooo! That sounds like great progress. I'm looking forward to seeing the completed design!