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Other weekend activities

In addition to finishing the socks for my sister, I made some firm progress on a couple of other projects.

On Friday night, I worked a few rows on Charlotte’s Web. I’m just about to do row 101. Still alternating colors 3 and 4.

I sewed up the side seams for Marcel’s Sweater. Now I just need to find the sleeves and sew them up and then set them in. It’s so close to being done, I kinda feel like I should press on through. It’s still cold enough to get a wearing out of it.

I also tackled the problems with Zig Zag. When last I left it, I had ripped out the completed collar because stitches from the front were pulling too loosely. After some examination, I decided the best solution was to rip out the front and redo it. So I did.

Here’s the front as I’m ripping out the yarn and carefully inserting the needle into the live stitches (Look Ma! No lifeline!):

I reworked the base row very tightly and took care with the short-row wrapping around the neck as well. Further, when I re-did the 3-needle bind off, I worked across the back of the neck instead of the front neckline, allowing more control over the front stitches when picking up for the neck. Unfortunately, I somehow got my working needle and my holding needle confused for working the neck and I did it on a size 5 instead of a size 6. It’s a little tight. I’m not sure if it will bug me enough to go back and fix it.

Here’s the whole thing after I re-did the front and finished the collar.

I tried it on and it fits well. It’s a little more clingy than other examples I’ve seen, and I attribute that to working it with only one strand of yarn, not having blocked it yet, and to gaining a little weight since I started it. There’s no pictures of this yet — I was wearing a black bra and this top really needs a camisole under it.

After I finished it, I got started on the sleeves. Here they are, about 5 inches in:

So, if you’re keeping track, I did a little work on all of my active projects over the weekend. Must be time to be starting something new.

Yesterday, Vicki asked me about the afterthought heels. I only had one small hole problem with these — when I picked up one of the stitches between the two sides, I only went one strand in from the edge instead of two. This wasn’t enough to support the pull of the heel, so there’s a little hole. But it didn’t bug me enough to redo. I thought they fit my heels pretty well, even though my foot is smaller than the sock. The only concern I would have is that there isn’t really a gusset to accomodate the increase in foot width in that area. In some stitch patterns, there’s enough give to the knit that it shouldn’t be an issue. I have my doubts with the stranded pattern I used. I’ll keep you posted if I have to redo them.

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