{"id":12675,"date":"2020-04-15T21:51:13","date_gmt":"2020-04-15T20:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=12675"},"modified":"2023-07-24T22:33:20","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T21:33:20","slug":"daily_1921_-_knitting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2020\/04\/15\/daily_1921_-_knitting\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 1921 &#8211; cardigan, halfway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_2\/1921_knitting.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><br \/>\nThe cardigan is proceeding well. I&#8217;ve passed the armhole bind-off and now I&#8217;m continuing with the back, while the two front parts wait their turn. Meanwhile the knitting looks like a torture device, with cables and needles sticking out everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>Knitting a cardigan from the top down sounded simple, but turned out hard to get right.<\/p>\n<p>Knitting a cardigan from the bottom up sounded intimidating, but has thus far been easier. Although, the part that sounds intimidating is the assembly and of course I still have that ahead of me.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2012\/01\/28\/knitting\/\">The previous pattern I attempted<\/a> had a lacy yoke that I just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2018\/01\/15\/daily_1138_-_knitting_x3\/\">couldn&#8217;t size correctly<\/a>. Only when most of the body was done could I see properly whether the yoke fit or not. (The answer: not.) And by then it was too late to do anything about it.<\/p>\n<p>This cardigan (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/patterns\/library\/88-4-cardigan\">Drops 88-4<\/a>) is also hard to try on when it&#8217;s hanging in half-finished parts. But what I can do is lay the parts flat on top of an existing cardigan to check the size and shape of them. And that looks promising!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cardigan is proceeding well. I&#8217;ve passed the armhole bind-off and now I&#8217;m continuing with the back, while the two front parts wait their turn. Meanwhile the knitting looks like a torture device, with cables and needles sticking out everywhere. Knitting a cardigan from the top down sounded simple, but turned out hard to get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[767,18,784,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crafts-2","category-dailies","category-knitting","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12675"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12885,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12675\/revisions\/12885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}