Using the remains of the Rainbow Afghan--no yarn quantities, yet. (Afghan’s not finished, this isn’t finished, etc.)

Note to self: Don’t slip the first stitch--purlwise or otherwise. It looks goofy, and the button band isn’t going to curl; it’s garter stitch.

And if you knit this in stripes again, make the color change on an odd row to avoid the prior color’s bumps on the kfb.

And move the increases away from the button band by one stitch. {Not necessary when your button band is the same color as your body.}

Using same mods as Ruby’s sweater. Also trying to keep button band all white. {Note: This was an awful idea. I’m reknitting the whole sweater--and not going to do this. There’s too much of a gap between the band the the color, even with twisting the stitches, because you’re changing color, changing from garter to stockinette, and trying to work increases, and it’s just a mess.}

Restarting on 22 May 2012:

(The sweater is requiring about 74 rows before the bottom border.)

I intended to work chain stitches in white between the stripes, but it didn’t work out: looked all bunched up and screwy.

{Old notes: We can all ignore this. Doing okay for a while. Then messed up the garter stitch in the button band. I figured I could ignore it since the button band will be hidden under the buttonhole band. Then something else went wrong when I was more than halfway through, so I frogged back about 25 rows to the button band glitch and restarted. There’s now something wrong in the button hole band in about the same place, but I can stitch the mystery hole closed there without a problem. (Actually, I wound up dropping the button band stitches, ripping them back, then reknitting them. I’ll slip stitch them to the sweater section, but the weird hole is gone.) But I think I don’t want to do the button band in a different color from the rest of the sweater on a future project: too much of a mess trying to keep stitches on both bands twisted with the body stitches.}