this marriage thing cramps my style.
last night while i was knitting jg decided to talk about our life plans. i kept on knitting, of course, and managed to keep up the discussion pretty successfully. regretfully, i learned that i cannot knit while making big life decisions. look what happened:
abandoned one stitch three rows ago
taking live stitches off the needles made me very uneasy. the saddest part is that i lost two entire rows of finger breaking purling. i laid it out and took some decent progress photos before i put them back on the needles.
front
back
note the 'o' in the back double cable. i decided to change the direction of the twist because i had followed the pattern backwards so all the cables twisted in the opposite direction. while i don't mind that in the single cables, i do want the double cable to look like it opens upward. it's a minor fudge and i actually like the 'o' effect.
i'm still mourning having lost an hour putting all those unruly stitches back on the needles and reknitting the three frogged rows.
so far i've done very little fudging. the following is one part of the pattern i'd definitely change if i made another bpt:
raglan increases
pattern calls for making the increase 1 stitch before the cable begins. the result is what you see to the left side of the cable. then, the pattern calls for the increase to occur one stitch after the cable. i made the mistake of increasing it immediately after the cable. and the result is what you see to the right of the cable.
i don't like how the left increase makes irregular holes. i like the mistake increase better. it's tighter and less obvious. i increased by lifting up the yarn between the two stiches below and twisted it. i wanted to do the knit to the front and back of the next stitch but i didn't want to stray from the instructions. i wonder why it creates the same holey effect as yarn overs. may be i didn't execute the increase correctly.
anyway, i repeated this mistake at all four raglan cables so at least it's consistent. i believe elizabeth zimmermann said that a mistake repeated becomes a design. hahahahaha. i have to admit that i'm glad i fubard; now i know what to do it better next time.
friday evening i made decent progress on the afghan while watching the movie solaris.
afghan skein three
the lighting is terrible but it's the only place that's big enough to spread a 24" square in my humble home. it looks like each square takes up exactly three skeins of yarn. neat coinkydink.
here's a closeup of it folded up on one of jg's chairs.
corner detail
i hope to make substantial progress on the bpt today so i can show it to you tomorrow. meanwhile, happy easter!
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