23.04.2021

Cast On on the train coming back from Ormskirk to Knaresborough

06.05.2021

Have just about finished the yoke section.

08.07.21

Body completed. Working on sleeves

April 1, 2023

Sleeves completed. All I need now is the space to block it and get the finished product photos.

Poison DMV has been happy. Happy April Fool’s Day! Well, this Furby item is one of three jumpers that I have actually managed to date since 2020. But it’s in such a safe bloody space waiting to be blocked and it’s waiting. Last year I fell into the deep well thanks to the black dog with depression. Rubbing my ass hard. Hopefully this year I get a chance. God willing with what English wet weather

June 1, 2023

Found and will review it before blocking once the first cardigan, Ryanna’s Ginny, has been blocked.

June 30, 2023

I checked this cardigan over as there was just something that didn’t look right. Like the Coastal Knits Zip Up Cardi, it was a case of let’s reknit the sleeves as there is something wrong with them.

After ripping back the sleeves to the point of separation with the body I found what I had done wrong. One sleeve was knitted on 3.75mm needles and the other on 4mm. This was why the cuffs looked different row counts and the fabric of the sleeve was different from the other.

Working on sleeve one I picked up stitches in the underarm gusset region and then used the decrease row and then 3 rows of plain stockinette stitching.

This works down the elbow region where I had 98 stitches on the needle. At this stage, I changed the decrease to every second row. I needed to lose 44 stitches.

In the end, I worked down to 64 stitches as I didn’t want the sleeve any tighter. I lengthened the sleeve in stockinette before starting the cuff.

The cuff was also lengthened to 2 inches of garter stitches. Cast off was a purl row cast off. I didn’t do a stretchy cast-off as I wanted the size of the cuff that I had and I wanted the fixed finished edging that the standard purl cast-off provided to me.

July 3, 2023

The cuff caused me some grief as I kept stuffing up the pattern and the dog helped by pulling the knitting of the cable needle. So the cuff has been re-knitted for the fourth time.

Other crafting was undertaken as a break from this project as it was in timeout for most of the day. I got the sleeve finished just as Ryanna was getting home from work.

July 4, 2023

Started the second sleeve but again was struck
by the knitting gremlin police yet again on this sleeve. It has been knitted to a significant point past the elbow only to be ripped out, back to the yoke separation. I had used the wrong needles yet again.

July 8,2023

After several attempts at this sleeve and having it ripped back to the yoke separation. To stop the wrong-sized needles I made sure I was using my metal interchangeable 4mm. The problem was the wooden needles are only marked on the 3.75 and the marking has lost the darkened gilt from the wood.

I had got to about the first inch of the cuff at about 11 pm and thought that I would just finish off the cuff while waiting for her to get home. In the end, I went to bed at 1:49 am. I had spent almost three hours trying to fix multiple mistakes on the cuffs so I had to rip the cuffs to the first six rows of the garter stitch.

July 9, 2023

after the debacle of last night, I was up early for the dog so I returned to the cuffs. I somehow managed to knit the cuffs completely in about three hours. So at 8:30 am, I put the project down thinking that I had finished casting off with just one stitch on the needles and would finish the project downstairs after a bit of a nap.

Bringing the project downstairs I found that I had another 18 stitches to cast off. It was a case of yarn chicken. I lost big time. I had to rejoin the yarn to finish the last four stitches. But is is now DONE!!!! and waiting in the queue to be blocked.