I got to the button band on my Winter Sunset cardigan and had to make a few changes. First the pattern says to pick up 192 sts, and I'm thinking that sounds like alot of stitches. Won't the band be all floppy and bunched up? So I started picking up 3 stitches for every 4 rows of knitting. It has always worked out well for me in the past. I ended up with 150 sts. If this doesn't work out I'll be tinking it and trying again. Not one of my favorite things to do.
Now pattern 4 rows and place 8 buttonholes.
Pattern says knit to buttonhole placement, sl1, sl1, psso, sl1, psso. Slip this st back to left needle, CO 2 st. Rep for other buttonholes.
Didn't like the look of that one. Now remember I'm working with two colours here. So I patterned to the place I wanted it (1 white st before the 2 black sts) ssk, wrapped both yarns around the needle twice, k2tog (2nd black st and 1st white st).
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So now on the wrong side these 2 sts should be white and I knit in the front and back of the double wrap to make 2 stitches for the next row.
So for this particular pattern, I have a buttonhole I can live with.
And to my amazement the eight buttonholes worked out perfectly even and in the same pattern repeat.
The only problem now is getting it back from Mr. Tibbs to finish the other band.
2 comments:
The trees are lovely!! We got piles and piles of snow - not sure who got the short end of that stick.lol
Oh my that is such a beautiful sweater!
Trees are pretty, but I'd rather have a snow storm than an ice storm. And we lucked out here and didn't get either!
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