where was I?

Umm, I've been a lazy blogger recently. Lazy in other areas too -- I finished Grandma's brown paper bag poncho, including all eleventy-gazillion stitches of i-cord bind off. I just have to weave ends and block it, but I have been atrociously lazy about it. Maybe this weekend!

However, I did start on the Nantucket Jacket.


As of last night, the sweater is on hold. One of the design features that made me want to knit this sweater are the triangular seed stitch gussets shown in the magazine photo.

Of course, I am not quite the waifish build of the cover model, and I am making a larger size than pictured. In the larger size, the pattern gets its extra width in the seed stitch areas ... instead of decreasing to triangle points topped with a column of eyelets, the decreases lead to a wide column of seed stitch with an eyelet pattern down the middle. It's ok looking, but it loses the design element that made me want to knit this in the first place!

Now I need to rewrite the pattern, probably with triangular gussets like in the photo, but some added cabling/ribbing in between and on the outside edge to add the width I need.

In the meantime, I started a sock instead. It's the second sock of a simple pair of garter rib socks. No pic, as it's only an inch long. If you want to know what it looks like, check out its mate, completed back in May!