Thursday, December 16, 2010

Fibers on Friday: a4A Progress





The only thing I've worked on this week (as knitting goes) is my Steppe Ahead Sweater for Afghans for Afghans.




I'm still enjoying it, but I have to say the pattern gets kinda hectic at times. Nothing unmanageable, but hectic! I should have taken pictures of some of the jumbled mess I had going on, but here's the run-down:
  • 2 straight needles were acting as stitch holders for the live stitches for each front shoulder piece as I knitted the back.
  • 1 set of circular needles as I was knitting the back.
  • 1 length of cut yarn hanging off 1 straight needles to use for 3 needle bind off when ready
  • 1 entire ball of yarn hanging off the other needle ready for picking up and finishing the collar.
  • 1 entire ball of yarn as working yarn for the back.
Wow! Gobbly-goop! It all works out, it's just crazy. And I'm lucky to have accumulated all those needles and had them handy.

So, what was new? What have I learned? 'Cuz we all know, if we're not learnin' we're burnin':

The three needle bind off!

I was quite intimidated by this process, but I watched a video on youtube and then got to it. And it was easy! I mean aside from adding 2 more needles to the gobbly-goop! And it created the most astoundingly beautiful seam! Look





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