Ponderings on a pair of shorts
I feel like all I've heard all week is, "You can knit shorts?"
After a few false starts that I will detail below, I have completed the first half of Ms. Green (to my knowledge, no relation to Mr. Greenjeans, although it's a really cute sweater, too).
I cast on for the women's large before I realized my butt is actually smaller than I thought (neat!), and I frogged to cast on for the women's medium.
Which was actually fine, because then I could knit the leg in the round. Gauge be damned! I hate seaming! So. In the round.
Then I tried to decrease for the crotch seam during a show and the next day I discovered that I had 4 too many stitches at the waist. So. I frogged back (~20 rows) to do the decrease row I missed in the dark in between cues.
Waist shaping: second verse, different from the first. But instead of binding off 10 stitches on every WS row 4 times, I worked some short rows in there and plan on using the live stitches to knit the waistband after I've completed the other leg. Because picking up stitches from a bind off row? Definitely ranks pretty low on my list of fun things.
The yarn is Rowan Cotton Jeans, which I find infinitely more practical than the Rowan Silk Aran the pattern calls for. I need to make some progress on a few other projects, so now I'm trying to decide if I want to knock the other leg of Ms. Green out of the way before or after I do those other things. These are life's tough decisions, folks.
After a few false starts that I will detail below, I have completed the first half of Ms. Green (to my knowledge, no relation to Mr. Greenjeans, although it's a really cute sweater, too).
I cast on for the women's large before I realized my butt is actually smaller than I thought (neat!), and I frogged to cast on for the women's medium.
Which was actually fine, because then I could knit the leg in the round. Gauge be damned! I hate seaming! So. In the round.
Then I tried to decrease for the crotch seam during a show and the next day I discovered that I had 4 too many stitches at the waist. So. I frogged back (~20 rows) to do the decrease row I missed in the dark in between cues.
Waist shaping: second verse, different from the first. But instead of binding off 10 stitches on every WS row 4 times, I worked some short rows in there and plan on using the live stitches to knit the waistband after I've completed the other leg. Because picking up stitches from a bind off row? Definitely ranks pretty low on my list of fun things.
The yarn is Rowan Cotton Jeans, which I find infinitely more practical than the Rowan Silk Aran the pattern calls for. I need to make some progress on a few other projects, so now I'm trying to decide if I want to knock the other leg of Ms. Green out of the way before or after I do those other things. These are life's tough decisions, folks.