Creeping Ivy
After some tweaking of the code (thanks again, bro), things are a bit roomier chez tangle. I should now be able to include bigger pictures linked from flickr (bigger than the last couple of posts, at any rate). I've also made the banner a bit bigger and learned how to outline text. Photoshop is so overwhelming, but with a bit of help can do amazing things. Like lens flare, you can create lens flare in PS! How cool is that? Alrighty, enough of my shutterbug geekery for now...
I'm entering the home stretch with Ivy. Last week, I mentioned how I'd made a mistake and there was ripping to be done. After checking both fronts against the pattern, I realised that the mistake was apparently in the (completed) left front. Now I didn't mind how the left front looked. What bothered me was that the left and partially completed right fronts didn't match.
See how the edges curl in different directions and how the cable fades into the body on the left front? So, I made a decision that would ease my mind but make some knitters cringe -- I ripped back the right side.
While I could have just gone as far as the end of the cable ribbing when I was ripping back, my brain works in strange ways, and for me it was easier to start the side again.
A few movies and a Sunday morning later, the right front was nearly redone. I finished it up this morning and now face some calculations before starting the sleeves. I had planned from the beginning on making this with three-quarter length sleeves. Now, I'm thinking maybe shorter sleeves. The problem with this, if it's really even a problem, is that I'm a directions girl when it comes to most knitting. If necessary, I can figure out minor modifications. Creating short sleeves on a sweater is not a minor modification when I've only ever knit two sweaters (one was a baby sweater and the other remains knit but un-seamed in a bag halfway across the continent). So there's some math involved that I need to be in the right frame of mind to tackle. I'm also doing away with the ties, and am thinking of somehow using buttons with loops instead of buttonholes. Any suggestions? I'm big on plans and short on confidence, as usual.
