12-01-2018

Started the lining for the pockets according to instructions for ITAG. Picking up at the pearl bumps was not as hard as I thought. I did have to watch the video again. Suzanne is a great teacher.

12-18-2018

The right pocket wasn’’t so bad, but the left pocket took forever. I ripped it out 7 times, I am glad I had waste yarn holding those stitches. I love Suzanne’s pocket.

12-27-2018

I started the left sleeve 3 times, the sleeve is to big. I went up from a 4 to a 5/12” needle, besides making my hands hurt, my tension was awful. I left the last left sleeve in. I am now working on right sleeve with 4, magic loop. Tension looks much better.
Instead of decreasing every 10th row, I am decreasing every 6th row. Started with 85 stitches.

10-12-19

I finally finished the neckband. I did a knit 1, purl 1, then several rows of garter, ending with an I-cord bind-off. I wrestled over the color choices of the neckband, but in the end, I am very happy with this beautiful sweater.

11-1-19

I embellished the sweater with a tag, packed it up beautifully, and added a hand written note “HAND WASH ONLY”.