Progress notes on the blue braids cardigan

Okay, partway through the button band and neckband. Need to figure out how many buttonholes and how big they are going to be.

There are 90 stitches along the front right part, before it becomes neckband. I have 10 buttons, not sure how many I want to use. An odd number of them.

Going to have to figure out how many stitches per buttonhole. Chatted with bkseiver - she says I just have to swatch it, although at least she could give me a starting point and talk about how it should be almost the size of the button.

So I went upstairs and found the box with the rest of the yarn, and am swatching.

Okay, having swatched I'm pretty happy with the 4-stitch version of the one-row buttonhole, version 4.

Damn, good thing I kept it in a printout - the webpage is gone.

So now do to the math. But I also want to try it on and figure out the gaposis spot.

Corded rib socks photo

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Originally uploaded by celticdragonfly

Voila, here they are. I like the corded rib stitch. Got that from Charlene Schurch's first Sensational Knitted Socks book. I don't do short row heels often, but decided they might fit better under the new shoes. Went pretty well. I do *not* need all those stitch markers for the short-row heel, though, honestly.

One Row Buttonhole

I got this from knitting.about.com, but now it's not there any more, so I'm going to put it here so I can find it later.

ONE ROW BUTTONHOLE:
Work the required number of stitches before starting the buttonhold.

As if to knit, slip one stitch. Between the tips of the needles, bring the yarn to the front of the work and drop it. As if to knit, slip the next stitch from the left-hand needle to the right-hand needle and pass the first slipped stitch over the second slipped stitch and off the needle. Not using the dropped yarn, bind off the required number of stitches in this manner.

Slip the last stitch on the right hand needle back to the left hand needle. Turn the work around. Bring yarn to the front. At the edge where the buttonhole was started, using the twisted method of casting on purlwise, cast on one more stitch than the number that you bound off.

Turn the work around. Slip the first stitch from the left hand needle to the right needle as if to knit. Slip the extra cast on stitch over the next stitch and then slip this stitch back onto the left-hand needle.

TWISTED PURL CAST ON:

The twisted purl cast on method provides a firm edge. It is decorative on both sides of the work.

To begin, make a slip knot and place on left needle.

Insert the right needle into the back of the stitch (furthest from you) as if to purl.

Wrap the yarn around the right needle as if to purl and pull loop through. This twists the stitch.

Place the new stitch on the left needle.

Continue to purl through the back of the stitch on the left needle and place the new stitch on the left needle.

Ta Da corded ribs, and whither Lucy socks?

The corded rib quartercrew socks are done, pics up on Ravelry, and on my feet. Ta da! I haven't tried them on with the new MBT shoes yet, I shall do that later. I do have enough of the yarn for another pair of socks, albeit again fairly short-cuffed ones. I haven't thought of what stitch pattern I want to use yet.

The other socks I'm thinking about are the Lucy socks here:
http://wendyknits.net/archives/1027

I have a skein of the Lucy colorway of that yarn, so I do want to do pawprint socks with it. I'll be knitting them top down, and I need a 72-stitch cast on, not 68/64.

So, looking at the chart on that page, she's got the lace charted in a 17-stitch panel. I need an 18 stitch panel, so add one stitch, no problem. But also, I like to have some ribbing in my socks, to keep them snuggly.

So once it's 18-stitch panels, there will be 5 stitches between each pair of pawprints. The stitch immediately on each side of the lace should be a knit stitch, leaving 3.

My wonder is this - do I do better to just make that a p3, or would they fit better if I made it a P1K1P1? Suggestions from other knitters?

Either way, I'm going to end up starting each needle with a purl stitch, which annoys me, but so it goes.