The Knitting Olympics, Part 4
I do! I have a strategy. I’ve been thinking ahead to the finishing of my sweater…the blocking, the seaming, the picking up of stitches for the button band (even though there are no buttons). I sort of dread these steps, and would usually deal with them by putting the unfinished project aside for a couple of years, but this time that’s not an option, since I’m going for the gold and all. So instead of waiting and dreading, I decided to be proactive and, last night, I went ahead and blocked the back and fronts of my sweater.
Emma heard that there was an area on the sweater back that needed extra blocking attention. Is this the place? Right here?
Yeah, Emma. That’s great.
Meanwhile, I worked on the first sleeve, thinking that when the sleeves were done, I’d block them, and could (while they were drying) return to the back/front sections, where I’d seam the shoulders and start working on the hood.
It still seems like a decent plan but, after knitting on this sleeve during the Olympics last night — and maybe not paying enough attention to the knitting (because, you know, women’s half-pipe, men’s figure-skating), I’m worried that there might be a problem.
That sleeve cap looks very narrow to me. Is it supposed to look like that? (This is where my sweater inexperience really shows.) Blocking will widen it some, but enough? Maybe the super-blocking-powers of Emma will save it?
To sum up: at this stage of the Knitting Olympics, I have some concerns.