Buttonband finished

[celticdragonfly]

I just finished the buttonhole band / button band / neckband on the braids cardigan. (It's all done in one long piece) Being on Ravelry is encouraging me to document my knitting way better than I used to.

I still have to do the sleeves, weave in ends, and sew on the buttons. But man, I'm really beginning to believe that this is going to become a finished sweater that I can wear!

For the buttonhole row, I used the one-row buttonhole method I documented in an earlier post. I laid it out and decided to use 9 buttons. The front up to the corner (where it becomes the neck) was 90 stitches. So that part was:

K3, (4-stitch one row buttonhole, K6) 8 times, (4-stitch one row buttonhole) once, K3. The last knit stitch was actually an increase stitch at the corner, following the pattern, so it was a kfb - that's how I prefer to do my M1s.

Now to go pick up for the sleeves.

Comments

Amazement

[bkseiver.livejournal.com]

You know, when you were between Alanna and Jamie's age, you went after one developmental milestone after another, whether you were "old enough" to do them or not. You didn't really try and try until you could do them: you watched people, and when you had it figured out, you did it!

Now, you do one knitterly milestone after another, and you've gone where a lot of knitters fear to go. You have achieved all this mostly on your own, with a few "long-distance consults". Utterly amazing, "as usual, King Friday"!

Re: Amazement

[celticdragonfly.livejournal.com]

Wow. Thank you. That means a lot to me, coming from you. I don't tend to think of myself that way. To me, I keep seeing all these knitters with tons of sweaters for themselves, and feel bad that I'm not up to that standard.

You know, Wendy, Stephanie... um. Yeah. People who've knit their whole lives, huh. Um. Yeah, possibly I'm keeping my standards a *bit* high for someone who's been at this for five years...

Did you know I'm a designer on Ravelry? I'm going to have to write up this sock pattern I'm doing now - surely the stitch pattern MUST be all over the place, I can't be the only one doing this, but still, I'll write it up in three sizes and post it, and then put it on Ravelry. And I have to write up Alanna's newborn hat. I think I should redo it in DK weight and see if that gets a typical newborn size. She's finally outgrown hers, though, so no more chance of getting great pictures.