01-10-2022

Picking back up now to see if I can finish this. Never got around to cutting it up for a pillow and now I’m glad. It will be a beautiful cardigan.

It’s been so long that I can’t figure out the how or why of the weird changes I made. Looks like I maybe tried to make steek rows above front neck BO to avoid backward stranded knitting but then reached the back neck BO anyway so that didn’t work.

Then I gave up.

I think, in the interest of finishing this, I’ll just switch to single color stockinette until shoulder BO but catch the floats every now and then so the fabric thickness is still similar to the rest of the body.

Looking at other projects, I’ve decided to 86 the white lace. I think the colors are so understated that lace would be a bit…extra.

Back of neck BO to hem (at purl row for turning- no lace) = 24”

Unblocked, uncut width = 42”

03-14-2016

Digging through my stash and projects to try and figure out where I left off. After all this time it occurs to me that Ingeborg would be fabulous as two beautiful throw pillows. Solid backs and knit print on the fronts. Thus, my love for this has been rekindled. Let the cutting begin!

10-21-2012: Just C off for the neck and am starting the decreases. Reading ahead…wait…working back and forth? So am I going to have to be stranding…backwards? WTH??? But I really want to wear it this winter (FINALLY) so will motor on…

Just found this video (hope the tiny URL works). It’s a little blurry but I can still see what she’s doing. It never occurred to me that this was possible!

http://tinyurl.com/9r7uybw

oh my lord- so, knitting backward is a skill I now have but why in the WORLD would anyone do it if they didn’t have to???

Going to finish off with a steek (Marina style) instead of that blasted back and forth. Kept the cast off part at the neck but am now adding 4 steek stitches (too lazy to go back and undo) and will continue on knitting normally to keep my tension the same.

12-19-2010: FOUND it! Oh, thank goodness. Cleaned my room yesterday and found it in a canvas bag, in a box, under some clothes. Have no idea how it got there… but there it was- safe and sound. =)

And Ingeborg was NOT happy to find that I had been stepping out with Autumn the past couple of weeks! Oh, the drama!

10-25-2010: Realized that somehow, some way, I have lost Ingeborg. Can’t remember if I took it somewhere to knit on…doctor’s office? School? Library? Hopefully, it’s just buried in the stash somewhere but panic has begun to set in…

09-16-2010: Reached 20” on the body but have decided to add an extra 2” to make it something I would actually wear and not just look at. =)

So very glad I bought extra yarn at the start!

And I cannot believe it has been over 2 years since I started this cardigan…but seeing as how my record is something like SEVEN years then maybe it’s not really so bad afterall. ha ;o)