03-14-2017

I’ve restarted several times because of gauge and issues with alternating skeins. Hopefully I’ve got it figured out now.

03-16-2017

I must have plugged my row gauge in to my spreadsheet incorrectly. I did all my calculations for 6.25 rows per inch, when it should have been 7.75 rows per inch. Sigh. I discovered it when my sleeve came out 4” short. I’ve readjusted the spreadsheet for the remainder of the sweater. I’ve decided to just knit 24 more rows onto the sleeve and make the 2nd sleeve identical.

03-03-2018

After having this sweater for a year, I’ve decided to commit SWEATER SURGERY! Those unsightly bust darts are going! I’ve lost weight, and they look even more ridiculous now. Since this is a bottom up design, I’m going to cut the sweater just above the last bust dart decrease, put the yoke on waste yarn, and rip out the darts.

I think I’m going to shorten the body a little as I do this because it came out a little long. Then I need to decide if I want to do any increases at all or just knit straight. Finally I’ll graft the two pieces together again!

03-04-2018

After ripping back through the darts, there are 220 sts on the body. There are 229 sts on the yoke. There’s a weird stitch with two loops that looks like it might be what happens when you’ve got a k2tog in the round that now has live stitches going the opposite way they were knit. So there likely should only be 228 sts in the yoke.

03-05-2018

There are 110 sts on back of yoke, 118 sts on the front of the yoke.

There are 110 sts on front and back of body. The body will need 8 increases. I will do 4 increase rounds in 8 round intervals to match the increases from the waist to the current live stitches.

03-11-2018

Grafting was more of a pain than I thought it would be. Namely because it turned out the round above the one that I unraveled had some k2tog’s in it. They accidentally got a bit wonky. Let me tell you, figuring out how to fix k2tog’s upside down was an experience. But you can barely tell. I also shouldn’t graft late enough when I’m tired. I had to upgraft and go back for silly holes and dropped stitches. But it looks good now!