Well, here's the finished Puff Sleeve Feminine Cardigan. The peplum gave me some trouble due to me goofing one stitch and I couldn't figure out how to unknit and reknit a YO... which led to me ripping it back to the garter rows and starting over. THEN when I got to row 17 in the peplum (which I was already aware had an error in it) I kind of starting winging it. Never smart. It mostly worked out though. I love the leather buttons. It looks fine on a hanger but really darling on a body. It is a little cropped but not in an unflattering way.
Once the cardigan was behind me, I decided it was time to revisit a recent knitting disaster a la Malabrigo Silky Merino. I bought this wool in Cloudy Sky along with a handmade glass button with the intention of making another Indian Summer hat like the one I had made for my mother for her birthday last year. I had no problems whatsoever the first time I did that pattern. This time however I think in the middle of all those YO's (again with the YO's!) I think my stitch marker may have moved under one of them at the beginning of the row which would have made me start to YO one stitch to soon. The result was that four or five inches of the netting where going in one direction then it started going in another. It was bizarre-O. I decided to walk away from it for a while so I put it away to do my shrug and cardigan etc. So Sunday I decided to try to correct and finish it. I tried to fix the bad rows only to make the exact same mistake again. Ripped back to the ribbing and at that point I think I had one of those mental blocks where I just kept making the same mistake over and over. So I decided to scrap Indian Summer and make something else. I went with a Toorie. (The pom pom hat <<< is a Toorie.)
This is a really fun pattern. You start with a provisional cast on-- which I had never done before. I used a crochet provisional cast on (thank you youTube!) So, what that means is you use scrap yarn to crochet a series of loops onto your needle then you go to your real yarn and start working off of those loops. This shows how to to that. What she's not explaining in the video is that the whole point of this cast on is later you will unzip those loops and the bottom of your work becomes live stitches again. talk about burning the candle at both ends. The way all of this happens in the context of the pattern was a little odd for me though. She has you unzip the stitches and but them on a dpn and then you bring it up with your stitches at the top and knit them together (meaning two stitches, one front one back, at a time.) This creates a tube-like hem at the bottom. I can't even tell you how weird it was for me to follow those instructions! I kept thinking, "Why am I doing this? Is this even right?" Well, it turns out the point is at the end you run yarn through that tube and drawstring that mother.
Okay, so I finish the hat except for the pom poms at the end. I don't like pom poms. I want to use my dang button. So I made individual petals from a pattern called For Joana (four because I ran out of yarn. Five or six would have been nice.) I assembled them on the pom pom/ tube casing side and put the button in the middle. TAH DAH!!!So, not really sure what to do next. I have black Mohair and black lace weight and I need black clothes for the new job. Those sound like two exceedingly frustrating yarns though. Errrrr...
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