Progress notes on the blue braids cardigan

[celticdragonfly]

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.

Comments

[coalboy.livejournal.com]

One of the things I didn't like about that pattern is the separate buttonhole panel. I think I tried to add 5 or so stitches to each side, one for buttons, the other for holes. I make it a practice to change patterns for this purpose.