What a Life!

Because you can take “eh” and turn it into “Ahhh!”

Seriously…you take something that looks nice but isn’t “together” and by adding a seam or a finished edge, you make something that looks marvelous! [No, sorry, my fellow knitters…I have no desire to do your finishing for you…I simply enjoy doing my own, thank you.]

Actually, I frogged the i-cord I had done when I posted a picture of this project the other day. I wasn’t getting the tension right and it bugged me. So it sat as a UFO (unfinished object) for a few days.

Then while working on the other sweater Jack, I came up with a different way of picking up sts and doing the i-cord. Namely, rather than picking up the sts and working them as a I went along (which meant too many sts on the needle and thus the tension problems), I picked up the sts with one strand of yarn (with my addi turbo) and then followed along with another strand of yarn and worked the i-cord as a simple i-cord bind-off (with my bamboo dpns). Much easier, much prettier. Best of all, it didn’t wear out my hands like the first method did. I was able to knit with regular tension and the sts formed themselves perfectly on my needle.

More later on how I un-vented this method on the little sweater named Jack…at the moment, I must go stop a certain three-year-old from throwing every single toy he owns across the basement…