On my first really non-flat project
I'm not sure I really thought about this before I started it, that it could be any different than knitting, say my eight hundredth kerchief or another scarf... the difficulty is really in the techniques, right? Lacework or cables or miters or something. And this pretty little jacket, blessedly, had none of that. Nor did it have seams, thank the gods. While I can handle seams just fine in sewing, I've yet to manage a decent one in knitting. A perusal of the internet suggests I'm not alone in that, either.
But this little thing is not flat. And that's the neatest thing about it. (Bear with me, I'm still new to this whole knitting thing!)
'Cause you start knitting flat, with V-shaped increases, like making a mitered square (oh, yeah. I should press & photograph those, too), but then yuo pull out these two sets of stitches, peeench, put them on waste yarn, and voila, you have two sleeves, a back, and two front halves. Magic!
Okay, silly, but I find it really neat how increases & decreases can actually shape a piece of flat knitting into a shape.
See?
Sleeves!
But this little thing is not flat. And that's the neatest thing about it. (Bear with me, I'm still new to this whole knitting thing!)
'Cause you start knitting flat, with V-shaped increases, like making a mitered square (oh, yeah. I should press & photograph those, too), but then yuo pull out these two sets of stitches, peeench, put them on waste yarn, and voila, you have two sleeves, a back, and two front halves. Magic!
Okay, silly, but I find it really neat how increases & decreases can actually shape a piece of flat knitting into a shape.
See?
Sleeves!