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It’s never easy

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So.

 The armholes on the Lace Hem Topping shell are too big.  My bra shows.  Once a woman reaches a certain age, a little peek at the bra isn’t as titillating as it used to be.  Not good.  I took in a couple of stitches at the underarm to tighten it up.  Then I decided to undo the shoulder seams and rip back a few rows to shorten the offending armhole before I attempt the crochet edge.

Remember when I said the mattress stitch was slow going?  That’s because I evidently ROCK at the mattress stitch and weaving in ends.  I’m so darn (not the first word that popped into my head) good at it that I couldn’t find the end to rip it out!

It took over an hour to find and undo the mattress stitching for one of the shoulder seams.  19 stitches.  The other side was about 15 minutes.

So now I need to rip back seven rows and start the neck/shoulder shaping all over again.  This time I will do short row shaping and the three needle bind off at the shoulders since I’ll be knitting both the front and back at the same time.

Word to the wise.  Don’t weave in the ends until you are 10,000% sure you are completely done.  Fin.  Fini.  The end.

Dilemma

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I finished all the seams last night on the Lace Hem Topping and when I tried it on, the armholes seemed a bit too big.  I don’t have the crocheted edge on yet. 

I think I will shorten the armholes by 1/2 inch and see if it fits better.  Or will blocking it again work?  The lighting isn’t good and the color is way off.  And my arms look huge! 

Seamed before edging

I should have stayed in bed…

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I woke up to the sound of the alarm at 5:30 this morning only to fall back to sleep for 20 more minutes.  These summer hours of working an extra hour in the morning and an extra hour at the end of the day are great so I can have an extra day off during the week but getting up earlier is not so great.  I’ve cut down my getting-ready time to the right amount of time without a minute to spare.  This morning I was only two minutes late walking in the door.  No one was here but the cleaners so it really didn’t matter.

My right arm was asleep with I got up and three hours later it’s still tingling.  Not good.

I only got two inches knitted last night on the back of the Lace Hem Topping shell.  I don’t know if I can knit during lunch with this tingling hand.  I this something I need to get checked out since I was diagnosed with this?

My printer at work isn’t working.  We have network printers I can use but this one is right next to my computer and the only one I can use when I need to print labels and envelopes.

It dawned on me that 40% of my paycheck is gone before it even gets to my bank.  And I’m not happy with what the powers that be are doing with that 40%.  Let’s not even go there right now.  This is not a political blog.

I should have stayed in bed…and knit.

Yarn, fiber content, stitch count

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I was reading Benjamin Krudwig’s  post this morning and decided to use his idea for my post today.  He discussed how many stitches we knit (or crochet) in an item and I thought it was a bit of information necessary on the tag I include with all my knitted items along with the yarn used, fiber content, and washing instructions.

I keep track of each row I knit and it wouldn’t be hard to figure out how many stitches are in the finished piece…not counting the seams.  I think this information would be interesting to include when gifting or even selling a hand-knitted item.

What do you think?