Sunday, August 12, 2012

Challenge Part Three....

It is surely better to have tried and failed, than not to have tried at all. 

My cardigan is nowhere near finished and the deadline has come and gone.  I think I could have tried harder actually.  It might have been finished if I hadn't read an entire novel last Sunday instead of knitting.    But I did enjoy the novel, and I didn't want to knit last Sunday. 

I've dropped several stitches this evening because I was watching the closing ceremony whilst wearing my glasses since I couldn't see the telly clearly without them.  Sadly with the glasses in place, I can't see my knitting so stitches fell off between the needles and on one occasion were not noticed until the stitch had run down quite  a way, which took some time to fix.

I knit a very neat neckband this afternoon, pulling in the too wide neckband very successfully.... too successfully, it was so small it didn't meet around my neck and the over large back section was wrinkled.  So that had to be pulled out again. 

Here is the progress made by the end of the challenge.  It may not be done, but I've made a staggering amount of progress today.  I knit the last third of the ribbed band and all of that sleeve today.  The sleeve was done entirely this evening and is almost at the point where I can start the rib.  Its going to have a deep ribbed cuff to match the waist ribbing. 

1 comment:

A Peppermint Penguin said...

that's a very pretty green. I hope the tumbledrier works it's magic! I'm hoping for a basic cardi out of 3 Mal sock in Lettuce. soon. well soonish.

Been wishing I could make jeans lately. All the shops have gone over to high percentage polyester in their denim. ugh. And what cotton +2% I can find, is all skinny or low rise or pink or summit like that. Give up!

Glad you got some summer dress weather in time for the summer dress.

Cheers,
AJ