February 7, 2025

Finally! At 58 rows from cast-on, I have reached 10”! Yay!

0130 hrs.
Since the k30 on either side of the hood shaping is constant, I have two stitch markers placed 30 from each side. Makes for less counting.

February 13, 2025

So, with the designer’s permission, I am working the hood shaping a tad differently, just because having that CCD one stitch off centre bothers.
Instead of it, I have placed a stitch marker just before the centre stitch. Follow pattern to two stitches before that marker, k2tog, slip marker, k1, ssk, and continue as per pattern.

February 15, 2025

I just checked. Besides being super-soft, this supposedly worsted weight yarn only consists of three loosely plied strands.

Once again, my inability to count accurately has shown up. Ripped back to ten inches over 112 stitches. Again.
Re-thought the central decreases, keeping in mind that I’m working on an even number of stitches. I’ll work an SSK and a k2tog either side of the central stitch marker.

For the neck tie, instead of a length of soft i-cord, I think I’ll make it as shown in the videos at: https://www.knittingparadise.com/threads/finger-knitting-...

February 21, 2025

0335 hrs.
After round 21, took time to count stitches. I must be blest! The wider wedges are 64 stitches each, and 52 in the narrower wedges.

Continuing past the pattern’s nineteen increase rounds, because:
I’m bigger that most women,
I have a full kilogram of this yarn,
I think oversized is better than undersized.

Just finished 21st increase round and the 21st repeat of round 3.

0755 hrs.
Who needs sleep?!
Instead, I made the cord for the neck of the hood.

February 24, 2025

1530 hrs. Nearly out of the first 200g, and just beginning the plain round after the thirtieth increase. I’m not measuring, but I am going to remove the markers (except the end of round marker) as I work around.

2330 hrs.
So, I spent a half hour setting up a swift and ball-winder in the vault - the only cat-excludable room in the house - and a half hour winding each of two skeins. Only one had a knot! The two still in the store package are untouched, for now.

Though I have only just begun the round-and-round portion, I’m already thinking of the ending. A gazillion stitches of ribbing? I prefer the border from the Trinity Stitch Shawl. Its mass will surely tame stockinette’s curl! Besides, I certainly have sufficient yarn!

March 1, 2025

1500 hrs.
I’ve joined the second portion of the ball that had had a knot.

I’ve measured from neck-cord to needle. 14.5”
I think the endless rounds are at an end.

The Blackberry Edging had 10 rows. That means it’ll ‘eat’ five stitches per repeat.

Now, I think I need to:
COUNT to know how many stitches I have. (It would have been wiser to have calculated while still increasing! I could have ended on a round evenly divisible by ten.)
Figure out where to add or subtract stitches to the nearest ten.
Knit around to center-back (I don’t want the join of start/finish to haunt me at centre-front!), and begin the border.

March 8, 2025

Math, my nemesis!
I said the border is a ten row repeat. It’s not. The repeat is rows 2 through 9. That’s 8 rows.
Well, with nine repeats already done, there’s no way I’m ripping back and recalculating the number of stitches I should have begun with. Good thing I placed the border’s start/end at centre-back! Whatever fudging is necessary will not be in my face all the time!

March 9, 2025

2335 hrs.
I shall need to take more time to finish this border. For the first time ever, the last joint of my right thumb is complaining! Painfully. As if that’s not enough, the last joint on the middle finger is also beginning to complain - not quite painfully … yet.
I am not working as tightly as usual, at least, I don’t think I am. I guess the arthritis has spread (is spreading ?) to the distal joints.
I’ve one row to finish the 14th point.
When I stopped on Saturday night, there were 9 points done. So, I may need to knit fewer rows daily. The last thing I want is to cripple any fingers!

March 10, 2025

2355 hrs.
I’m up to 18 points so far.

March 20, 2025

2340 hrs.
150 stitches yet to be bound off!
Hmm … divided by 4 = 37.5
I shall have to ‘swallow up’ two stitches before the end.

November 2, 2025

2230 hrs.
Well, a summer spent crocheting far more than knitting seems to have done well by my pesky finger joints. I’m back at finishing odd the border on this. Worked a repeat and a half painlessly.

November 3, 2025

2225 hrs.
120 stitches left to bind off.
This is _S_L_O_W_️

November 5, 2025

1650 hrs.
About 160 stitches yet to be bound off.
I guess I had miscounted before. I haven’t ripped out any. Ugh!
I know this will come to an end, but not soon enough!

November 7, 2025

2100 hrs.
Finally! I am really at about 120 stitches left to bind off.
So very slow going!

November 9, 2025

2035 hrs.
Only a hundred stitches left to bind off with this hefty border!!! The end is in sight!!

November 12, 2025

0710 hrs.
Frustration, thy name be knitting!!

Somewhere/when in the last week or so, I managed to screw up this bleeping border. After ripping back many rows - thinking the error was where a new ball was joined - it’s still not right. Unwilling to rip back any farther, I am accepting that the current offset is how it will continue.

November 13, 2025

1330 hrs.
I have reached a conundrum.
Somehow, I do have the correct number of stitches.
BUT I don’t have the correct k3tog/kpk in one stitch sequence!

I had ripped back to where I thought the problem was … several times. However, it’s still wrong!

I just KNOW that, if I continue with it as is, as soon as it’s grafted and the last end is securely woven in, the place where I goofed will become painfully apparent.

My conundrum: continue going forward OR continue ripping back a few rows at a time until the sequence is back to correct?

Indecisive, it’s back in its zipped up project bag, and I’m back to Bouquet Blanket #7.
Maybe it’ll be more easily studied at Sunday Knitting? Better lighting? Another pair of eyes? Clear space to open it up? And I had foolishly imagined having nothing but ends to weave in come Sunday!!

November 18, 2025

1245 hrs.
Only 84 stitches left to be bound off!!

I did rip back a bunch to eliminate the error in my counting. I’ve been going well since Sunday.

I never did exactly locate/identify the error. I ripped back a dozen or so rows, tried putting the stitches back on the needle, and repeated if it still wasn’t right. I should give away all dark yarns, or only crochet them. For some reason, they are less bothersome crocheted than knitted.

I might need to add in another ball before finishing. I hope I remember to weigh the leftover yarn AND the completed item.

November 24, 2025

If ever I do this again:

• Open front to make it a real cape
• Stripes to really show off the raglan shaping
• LONGER before adding the border
• Same border, because I am besotted with it!
• Replace stockinette with seed stitch? Keeping the raglans in stockinette?
• Thicker yarn!