Kimmish Knitting
Knitting... Kimmish Knitting... Is there really any more to say?

Monday, May 02, 2005

Still Zipless..

Howdie..

Yes it's true.. I haven't gotten a zipper yet.. we haven't even been anywhere to look at any besides Wal*mart.. They didn't have the right color... fooey.

I did work on my sweater a little bit a couple nights ago.. I may end up ripping it back out though. I was bothered by the slightly too short sleeves so I decided to see what it would be like if I picked up the stitches at the end of the sleeves and knitted another inch in pattern.. Brad says it looks too "renaissance like" but I'm not so sure.. I wish it didn't have a crease from where I picked up the stitches that's for sure.. but I don't know if I'd rather deal with the short sleeves the way they were.. or deal with the crease. I'm feeling pretty wishywashy about the whole thing.. (It's PMS time.. the time where I don't trust myself with any decisions.)

I might end up posting a picture of the sleeves in question on the Ribby KAL to see what the girls think.. That sounds like a pretty good idea..

I think the very best solution though would be to rip the sleeves out and knit them again an inch longer... Crazy you say?! YES! But it would be the best way.. Time consuming and annoying for sure.. but if you're going to do something you should do it right...... or something like that anyway. I really don't want to do that... I don't even need to do that.. but I may just end up doing it one day... I do have months and months till it gets cold enough here in Texas to even wear the silly thing.. I'd have to figure out how to detatch the sleeves... that'd be kinda tough.. ando ofcourse the collar would be gone... and I'd have to undo the seam on each sleeve.... Arggg.. lots of work.. Is the picking up shortcut really so bad? I don't know.

Today on the local news they did a story about knitting.. I thought it was neat.. and I'm pretty sure they showed my favorite knitting store.. They were mostly talking about men knitting.. but it was the basic "knitting is getting more and more popular" story.. I think it's nice that it is.. that means more and more yarns and books and tools that'll pop up. When I started knitting again I had NO idea that it was popular at all.. but as I got more and more into it, that was pretty obvious..

Man my head hurts...

**Edit-
I just took some pictures of the sleeves in question here they be:




And here are the sleeves close up, where I did my little picking up trick..
-Kim-   7:47 PM
 


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