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The remaining
pieces of my black lace project were rather uneventful after the swatch debacle. I just quietly knit
each piece between doing other little LK150 things. The shape for the body is that
A-line shape that I like but with the back hemline curved down in the back, but
straight across in front. I didn’t give you a blow-by-blow - wouldn’t want to seem like I was bragging to
shortrow that hemline. The beauty of plain lace on the Silver Reed is, it’s
just like knitting stockinette without holding position, once you have all the
kinks worked out! If you need a little refresher on shortrows with the ravel
cord and lace carriage, click here: https://knitwords.blogspot.com/2017/01/life-lessons.html
While
working on the body pieces, I was tossing around the variables for the shawl collar.
Plenty of options – the vertically-knit, ribbed one from Uptown – that’s sort of the look I’m going for but maybe not quite
so wide. The vertically knit, single bed, self-facing one from Gossamer
https://knitwords.blogspot.com/2012/01/lacy-daze.html
but just
stockinette, no lace – it will likely boil down to how far my shiny rayon yarn
will go – there’s not a lot of it, less than 100g, but I do have a bigger cone
of the same thing in an olive green that I can experiment with – I could just
go with the same thing as was on GWC/Elvis, but I do prefer a buttoned front to
an open front.
Came
back from the border – no sock yarn! checked my email and instead of the two day
shipping, I got 4 to 7 day shipping. Figured I may as well put some time in on
Becca. Did all the little added bands and feeling quite righteous, began the
putting together.
Reminder,
knitting with black… the first shoulder is joined. Hung the second back
shoulder and went to put the front one on. It’s late afternoon and hard to tell
the knit side from the purl side. Gosh, darn! I realize that I’ve put the wrong
front shoulder on the first back shoulder – the armhole of the front is on the
neck side! Fudge, crud, blessed frickin’ bloody hell! It’s wine time!
Well, I think that worked. There doesn't appear to be a line of any sort, tension-wise or weight-wise where I dropped the ribber and changed to the knit arm. New
front is done!
Looks okay but who knows until you get it all
together. The fact
that this is going to shrink up considerably – pretty hard to judge until it’s laundered,
after the putting together. I did pin the one side and shoulder together to the
back and it looks like it will work so am proceeding with the other front!
My
brother is coming to visit – I’ll wear it and we’ll have a glass of wine and a heart-to-heart…
