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Knitting Friday

 

And today, I have no pictures so if you want to just move along, I'll understand. A lot of bits of knitting got done this week but nothing got finished except the gorgeous hand-painted crocheted Sherbet Wrap:

 

 http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/sherbet-wrap

 

This is absolutely gorgeous and I think I have made that mythical wrap which is a scarf, shawl, blanket and pillow while being light as a feather. I'm going to block it and next week (if things remain stable here and don't take a downward spiral) I'll post the before and after pictures. I crocheted this just like the pattern; unusual for me.

 

Can't say the same for the Bowtie Pi:

 

http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/bowtie-pi

 

This was first posted on 7/26/13 with modifications but I can't believe, in my modifications, I didn't mention you must make the  foundation chain, set-up row and Row 1 of the pattern with a hook 2 sized larger than the hook  you use for the body. If you don't, this part of the shawl which sits right under the neck is convex and must be folded over or it will look bunchy. I guess using a larger hook to start is the crochet equivalent of the garter tab in knitting. (Note: if you have enough yarn to make a ruffle around the top and sides, this problem disappears because then you want the ruffled fold-over look.) Pictures and a better explanation next week.

 

I'm still working on my simple generic top (8/9/13) in the variegated yarn. It's taking forever and this cotton is so heavy it could double as a knight's chain mail. Using only a two row pattern of R1: K and R 2: *YO, K2tog* takes so much longer than using a 4 row pattern of R 1 & 2: K and R 3 & 4: *YO, K2tog.* I think this is because the first pattern is springier so the lace springs back and gives you less length for the same number of rows. I was only going to use the lace for the yoke and stockinette in the body but, time-consuming or not, it looks so good in variegated yarn that I'm working the whole top in lace.

 

Speaking of my 8/9/13 posting: I refer to a Mystery Shawl there but I give the directions for a Mystery Shrug. Sorry. (Not going to edit because that is such a bear.)

While we're on the topic of shrugs, I really want to make Iris Schreier's New Year's Shrug again (in the first one I made a glaring error.)

http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/new-years-shrug

 

This shrug was free at the time I posted it; I hope you got it then.

 

Finally, a great tip from a Raveler: Don't knit in black wool. Knit in undyed wool and then dye it black. Normally I would say: Oh no! Dyeing is the pits. But black wool is so tedious to knit and you never see the mistakes until you are all done, sometimes even after blocking. (Also from this Ravelry thread: Knit Picks has some good and inexpensive black dye.)

 

That's it for today. Pretty meager, sorry. See you next week. Happy knitting.

 

 

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Website Wednesday

 

There are 25,000 alcohol related deaths, 189,000 lung cancer deaths and zero marijuana only deaths* in the US** each year and yet a recent Huffington Post headline shouts: White House Won't Say If Obama's Medical Marijuana Stance May Be Swayed By Sanjay Gupta.

 

May be swayed? And we're talking about medical, not recreational, marijuana here. Jesus H. Christ! Where do we get these Yahoos? And don't get me started on Gupta. He crocodile tears his past anti-marijuana stance by saying: Well, I trusted the DEA to be using scientific data. Shit, man. You're an MD. Not the local witch doctor. You read the data. That's what competent scientific people do. What a bunch of bozos! I can't wait till he mea culpas his way to Charlie Rose's confessional. I know I won't be watching.

 

 *With drug induced deaths from heroin, etc., the coroner may report marijuana was also in the body.

**Yes, I know, why should you believe me? Well, just look it up. I'm just too lazy to cite today.

 

On to websites. I came to this website because of the baby blanket:

http://www.angryasiancreations.com/2010/01/crochet-heathers-throw-baby-o-blanket.html

 

but stayed because of the recipes:

 

http://www.angryasiancreations.com/ 

 

Scroll through the older posts (link bottom) for more recipes and links to even more websites with a lot of stuff, plus recipes. I don't know if this is only a "girly" site but I do know that I love to look at food right now. I'm allowing my reptilian brain to tempt me to eat every thing in sight and then to cook even more stuff. Not good; I know it but I'm justifying this by saying that I'm insulating all the nerves in my body against present stress and future stress. Oh, I so have to start dieting! But just not right now.

 

OK kids, here are two for you:

 

http://universe-review.ca/I13-01-periodictable2.jpg

The first is a mnemonic way to learn the periodic table. Like for Al, Aluminum, you get symbols showing its a solid and part of the earth's crust and its number, 13. Then you see the picture of an airplane with the word "airplane" under it. Looks like it should work.

 

Then there's:

 

http://www.gifts.com/ideas/dorm-essentials-checklist 

 

The site is gifts.com which is purely commercial but this page is one great checklist for first-time dorm students. I think, with modifications, it would work well for any extended time away from home.

 

And now for something completely different:

http://www.stingfeed.com/

 

Sting Feed bills itself as your "daily dose of viral entertainment." Hey, what's not to like about viral? Just click the links for smiles and chuckles. No deep thinking here, just fun. And don't miss the comics.

 

Still a few weeks of summer left so maybe you could read another book:

 

http://journalpulp.com/2012/03/04/top-ten-best-novels-youve-never-heard-of/ 

 

You get the top ten best novels you've never heard of here. Don't know about them being the best but if you click on each title, you'll get sent to Amazon (when do you NOT get sent to Amazon these days?) for reviews and, with some, sample readings.

Demons intrigues me because I have it under its original title, The Possessed, and it's touted as: Perhaps it’s the first 100 pages, which Dostoevsky later admitted were “a mistake” and not the proper way to start his mind-spinning story, which is an absolute masterpiece of plot-and-theme integration. Leave it to the Russians to nail plot and theme integration. (No barb here; I mean it.)

 

And finally, I'll leave you with this:

 

http://www2.thriftyfun.com/newsletters/index.lasso 

 

I haven't gotten beyond this first page but apparently you can sign up for a free daily or weekly tips newsletter. Tips on cleaning, crafts, recycling, frugal living...... You decide what kind of tips you want and whether you want them daily or weekly. Looks interesting. Maybe you'll want to "take the plunge." I think I will.

 

That's it for this Wednesday. See you next week.

 

 

 

 

 

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Knitting Friday

When I read history, my belief that the human species "ain't that hot" is unfortunately reinforced, so much so that I've decided that the best short reason for my being alive (that is, if I'm ever asked) is: I want to be a good ancestor. Because maybe some day our species will evolve into something worth saving. (DH's scientist response to this is: Good luck on that one.) 

But two weeks ago, the girl took up knitting and crocheting again, with a vengeance. Like music and horseback riding (which she has also avidly returned to), she had been taught these craft skills as a young child and, of course, watched me engage in them every day for years. However, recently, she started knitting without anymore instructions from me and yesterday, we spent a good part of the day re-learning crochet, this time by reading a crochet symbols chart.

Here's her recent knitting project:

#1 The scarf

It's a scarf done on US 13 needles and Knit Picks fingering weight yarn. It's very stretchy so that you won't notice any unevenness in the gauge.

Then on Wednesday, she watched me making another corner to corner afghan and asked to work at row. Here's the pattern again:

http://www.redheart.com/free-patterns/crochet-corner-corner-throw

So I gave her a quick lesson in the stitch I was using and then, that night, I worked up the pattern in symbols since I'm thinking that knitting and crocheting in the future may come with charted directions.

#2 My 1st crochet chart

#3 Swatch afghan

Here's my rude chart for the corner to corner afghan (#2). As you can see, it's pretty primitive but she's good in math and music so I think these were just more symbols for her to learn.

#3 is the swatch afghan she made from these instructions. (Note: the original corner to corner afghan is a square. I figured out how to work an even section [an increase & a decrease each row] so that you produce a rectangle.) I'm impressed with her swatch and right now, she has a chunk of white yarn, a J hook, and is making a winter scarf in this pattern.

My heart soars! No, not because I taught her these skills but because we have another knitter and crocheter in the family. All my needles, all my yarn have found a home. That's what I call being a good ancestor!

Not much crafting on my part this week. Fatigue has hit me, as I mentioned Wednesday, and my spare time activities seem to be dragging and cat napping. It really is a "going though the paces" existence at this time for everyone. You do what you have to do.

I did get to work up this sample (#4) in the early hours of one morning:

#4 What pattern is this?

I think it worked up into a nice looking shawl which may work in crochet thread for summer wear. Unfortunately, I have no idea what pattern I was using so I'm hoping I e-mailed the link to myself. I find that e-mailing is a good quick way to save a pattern when I don't have the time to read the directions. I have scores of e-mails with snippets of patterns or links. I really should find some time to scour them and arrange them in one file.

That's it for today. Next week I hope to discover the identity of picture #4 and I'll show you a black lace summer shawlette I'm making in heavy cotton cord-weight thread. The jury is still out on this one. I hope it doesn't wind up in the frog pond of What Was I Thinking projects.

Happy knitting. See you next week.

 

 

 

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Website Wednesday 

TBogg has left the blogging world. Many a dark and stormy night he was a light in the window and so often I thought: I don't have to add my redundancy to this issue, TBogg has our back on this one. He will be missed.

Conditions are spirally downward here, as they must. Hospice nurses, the social worker, all say that death comes more easily when you are at peace with yourself. (I’m thinking that’s because in times of stress the body produces hormones to keep you alive.) Unfortunately, DM started to question last night how there could be a god since none of those who loved us in life, if they are now in a hereafter, ever returned to ease our suffering. In normal times, this would be a good philosophical discussion but right now, she needs the “peace which surpasses understanding.” I sleep whenever I can and am tired throughout the day. I think it’s depression, which I was expecting.

Before my picks today, I'm going to tell you about something wacky which happened last week. Do you remember my Wednesday Website pick of Messy Nessy Chic (8/7/13)? I had two citations: Hilda, the heavy-set pin up girl from the middle of the last century and also the pictures of the Brown sisters spanning 45 years.

About Hilda I wrote: 

A lot of picks this week, starting with:

http://www.messynessychic.com/2013/08/02/americas-forgotten-pin-up-girl/
 

Take a look at a pin-up girl who is fat. She's cute but she's really round and, from the looks of it, quite happy. It's tough to realize in today's USA world with its theme of "you're fat and getting fatter" that there was a time when women wore curves with pride and a bag of bones was not the de rigueur look for beauty. (Look back at some of those all singing-all dancing Hollywood movies from the 1930s to see what I mean.) 

Fast forward to the next day, Thursday, 8/8/13 and The Huffington Post Women and there's a column and a slide show about Hilda. OK, I get it, the world is full of coincidences but the HP poster linked to Hilda by sending his/her readers to the same site as I did the day before. The Huffington Post article reads: 

Hilda, 1950s Pinup Girl, Makes Us Very Happy

....According to the blog Messy Nessy Chic, Hilda is a vintage icon who was "one of history’s longest running calendar queens" alongside Marilyn Monroe and others. 

Click on the HP Messy Nessy Chic link and you'll be reading the same article I posted just the day before. So this is how I'm looking at it: I always joke that all the hits on my site are from the FBI and the NSA. Maybe now I can include a blogger for the Huffington Post?

I'm going to start with something which has bothered me ever since I listened on C-SPAN to a black minister (religious) speak about how religion (Christian) helped/helps blacks. Although as an atheist you may think that acceptance of religion would grate me across the board but black slaves embracing Christianity has always bothered me because while it may have "gotten them through the night" it was the same religion of their slave masters and it allowed them to sleep in peace also.

And then I came across this 2013 page from The Mystery World (2010 pick):

http://www.themysteryworld.com/2013/05/historical-atheist-quotes.html 

Scroll down little to Frederick Douglass. Black social reformer, abolitionist and author from two centuries ago, the quote is from his famous 1852 speech which begins with: (But) the church of this country is not only indifferent to the wrongs of the slave, it actually takes sides with the oppressors. I was happy to see that he "got it" and was not afraid to speak abut it.

There are a lot of interesting quotes here from famous people with their take on religion. The one which surprised me was Chesterton's since I thought he was an avid Roman Catholic.

And now to a site where you could lose yourself for 100 years:

http://www.onlinecollegecourses.com/2010/10/20/100-incredibly-useful-youtube-channels-for-teachers/ 

This is all YouTube and perhaps you've seen many of these sites before but there's a great convenience in having them in one place. Just one bookmark and you can entertain/educate yourself for a very long time.

Let's look at pictures of amazing place:

http://beautifulplacestovisit.com/

These really are beautiful places to visit. This page will give you one view but click for some other breathtaking shots. Be sure to click Older Posts and scroll down to Easter Island. I never knew that those stone guys were all in a row. Those statues get more and more amazing with age (theirs and mine.)

Still need some summer reading? Here's a neat list for you:

http://entertainment.time.com/2005/10/16/all-time-100-novels/slide/all/

I don't know if these are the All Time 100 Novels but if you click on each book you will get an excellent review. Whoever wrote them captures the essence of the book; you'll know what to expect when you pick up that book.

And finally:

http://homedesignlover.com/ 

I don't know why I'm so drawn to home design sites. All the rooms look so clean that you know no human live there. Definitely an upscale site but you'll get some good tips here like in bathroom remodeling: don't move the plumbing. You'll also get to ask yourself some philosophical questions like: Is the quaint solitude of the bedroom loft really worth having to climb 8 steps each night to sleep in a bed which looks almost as precarious as Frodo's sleeping perch in the mountains of Modor?

That's it for today. See you next week.

 

 

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Knitting Friday

 

Let's begin with something which should make us all happy:

Miss A

 

 Miss A at 10 weeks and she has filled in her face completely. I'm thinking this may be the last couple of weeks when we can pick up her easily. (Right now, we lift her over the gate; I think we're going to be removing the gate so she can walk through soon.) Probably the easiest to train of the three Seeing Eye pups and so curious. If she sees anything outside - the guy checking the sprinklers, a person waiting for a ride - she'll just sit down and stares. 

 

#1 Mystery Shrug

Moving on to knitting, I discovered a big mistake in my posting from last Friday. Not that the shrug pattern notes were wrong but the shrug I linked to was not the one I was making. It was long after that posting when I looked the pattern's picture link and thought: This shrug has a good sized border on its top and bottom, mine doesn't. Here's a picture of the black shrug I made. The tape was supposed to show the width but I can't read it. I'm thinking this one was about 17 inches wide. I made this will that black cotton I kept frogging and, I was right, I'm finally happy with a pattern.

Here's the quick shrug pattern with suggestions in red:

Mystery Shawl

DK weight cotton yarn (sorry I don't know the yardage but it was from 1 pound mill ends. I was less than 2 of the 4 skeins however.)

US 10 needles - DPN and circs (24" or more)

US 8 needles - DPN and 16" circs

Size:  S/M

Skill Level: intermediate

 

Using US 8 DPNs, CO 45 stitches and join. (Next time, I would cut back at least to 41 stitches.)

1.  Work an armband in seed for at 10 or more rows.

2. Switching to US 8 circs (easier to control the stitches on circs now ), working 1 row in K, increasing 10 evenly spaced stitches across -55 stitches. (For a wider shrug, increase more stitches.) You are keeping the stitch count odd because you will be making the three stitches at the join in seed and the rest of the stitches in your pattern.

3. After your increase row and still working in the round, switch to US 10 needles (DPN  or 16" circs) and work in the pattern you've chosen for 8 rows. (Some explanation here: I chose a 4 stitch pattern so at the beginning of the round: I worked 2 stitches in seed - 52 stitches in my pattern - then 1 stitch in seed making sure that the seed worked out as k, p, k on one row, then p, k, p on the next. Whatever your pattern is, just be sure you've increased to a multiple needed for it plus the three extra stitches for the small seed band at the join. I only used 3 stitches for the seed pattern at the join because I didn't want a wide band there.)

4. After 8 rows in pattern in the round, start working flat and increase one stitch before the end of the first row so you can keep two stitches at the beginning and end of each row in seed. (Next time, I would have a larger seed border, probably 4 stitches each side since only 2 stitches curled in. To do that I would have to increase on each end on the first flat row.)

5. Work flat in your pattern, changing to larger circs (16" circs tire my hands) as the shrug opens up.

6. Continue to where you want the second armband. (More rows for near the elbow; fewer rows for near the shoulder.)

6. For your last 8 rows of pattern, join and work in the round, making sure the edge stitches by the join at the same number as what you worked with the beginning arm hole.

7. After your 8th pattern row, switch to US 8 needles and decrease to 45 stitches.

8. Work the second arm band as the first. Bind off. Weave in your two yarn ends and the shrug is ready to wear.

 

I like this pattern because there is no sewing up the arm band area. This is great for two reasons: their no seam line (a common complaint) and there in no trying to get the arm bands even. Simplicity all around.

 

Picture #2 shows the shrug's armband area. It's hard to see in black but it's sewn up about 2". Of course, you could work more pattern rows in the round at each arm band for a longer seam.

#2 Shrug's arm band

On the right, is the same shrug in a different pattern:

#3 Shrug in different pattern

It's been a long time since I made this one but you can see there are visibly many fewer stitches on the arm band (it puckers inward) than in the body. I think I like that look better.

Also this week, I tried to make another top-down generic top using a foundation single crochet neckband (that part worked great) with a chevron lace body (that part didn't.) There are a lot of chevron lace patterns available but here's the one I used:

 

 http://www.lionbrand.com/patterns/L0073.html

#4 Isn't the foundation sc great?

 

It makes for a very nice pattern but it stretches out unbelievably. If I planned to use this in a top, I would have to work out the gauge! So, I decided on my trusty: one row: *K*; one row: *YO, K2tog* and started on picture #4. I love the foundation single crochet (FSC) as a neckband. So simple and, if you have to pull out as I did, when you get the FSC it doesn't unravel. Love, love, love it!

That's it for this week. The girl wants to start knitting and/or crocheting again and we've planned today for a craft session. I'm looking through simple (but not too simple) scarf patterns. More on this next week. See you then. Happy knitting.

  

 

 

  

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Website Wednesday

I did say last Friday that I would eat crow if our regular hospice nurse returned this week. Well, I'm eating it. I was wrong. She was ill. They were giving her a long weekend off. However, her illness was one of those life is what happens when you're doing something else moments since it was totally unexpected and the company had every reason to be in a flummox when I spoke with them last Thursday (see last Friday's post.) But she sounds and feels fine now and all is well if you can discount the fact that we're waiting for someone to die. Though, truth be told, DM is so ready to die, so wanting to die and is extremely frustrated that she's lingering. (Google "blue light worms" for a current preliminary study concerning microscopic worms and the blue light they emit before death and how this may help in understanding the death process in humans.)

 

A lot of picks this week, starting with:

 

 http://www.messynessychic.com/2013/08/02/americas-forgotten-pin-up-girl/

Take a look at a pin-up girl who is fat. She's cute but she's really round and, from the looks of it, quite happy. It's tough to realize in today's USA world with its theme of "you're fat and getting fatter" that there was a time when women wore curves with pride and a bag of bones was not the de rigueur look for beauty. (Look back at some of those all singing-all dancing Hollywood movies from the 1930s to see what I mean.) 

 

And keeping with this this life is real, not Hollywood theme, go to Messy Nessy Chic's page at:

http://www.messynessychic.com/2013/05/06/the-brown-sisters-four-women-over-four-decades/

 

and watch the Brown sisters age over 40 years as they appear in the same posed picture first in 1975 and last in 2010. It's a lovely group of siblings which age can't wither.

 

We can look at a gray hair or a wrinkle, as a horror in our sophisticated, phony world but sometimes real horrors like shootings in movie houses or schools jar our complacency and a few times we get to see the aftermath of these horrors, as at:

http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2013/07/30/andrea_gjestvang_one_day_in_history_looks_at_the_survivors_of_the_july_22.html

On July 22, 2011 in Norway, a gunman targeted young people at a Labor Party camp, killing 69 of them. So often. such killings register in our brains until the next one replaces it. Photographer, Andrea Gjestvang, decided to follow the victims in this story because:  “For a while it seemed like people in Norway suffered from a kind of ‘22nd of July fatigue,’ but then it is even more important to remind [people] of the fact that the survivors are real people who actually live with this experience every day,”

 

Take a look at her photos. Be warned, they are disturbing.

I'm beginning to think this Website Wednesday has an unintended theme for my next pick is:

http://fstoppers.com/pics-reflections-portraits-of-the-elderly-as-they-once-were

You don't need an introduction to this page. What an interesting concept! Be sure to navigate around Fstoppers (FS) for more interesting topics. It's got pictures with articles to go with them. Again, be warned, at least one of the pages (pictures of the dead) does not look like it's for the faint of heart.

 

Let me end on something interesting and light:

http://www.ikeahackers.net/

 

IKea Hackers says of itself: IkeaHackers.net is a site about modifications on and repurposing of Ikea products. Hacks, as we call it here, may be as simple as adding an embellishment, some others may require power tools and lots of ingenuity. 

 

As you probably know, I'm a sucker for this type of hacking like taking the frame of an old window and sticking a mirror behind it. You get all types of suggestions here with very good explanations so you know just how the hacker achieved the results. 

 

That's it for today. See you next week.  

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Knitting Friday

 

I'm beginning to wonder why people praise hospice care so highly. Maybe I'm being too fussy (after all their patients are dying) but couldn't they wash their hands before the touch the patient? Of all the nurses (regular and sub) only one came in, said hello and then "Let me wash my hands first." And now there is this snafu my hospice is embroiled in. Our regular hospice nurse didn't come on Wednesday but the company called and said she was sick. Thursday, no nurse by 11:30 a.m. so I called and was told our nurse is still sick but a substitute would be coming in the afternoon. And then, in a most serendipitous moment, I asked: Could you tell me the nurse's name? and when she returned from checking, she said: Oh no, no one is coming today. Someone will be there on Friday. Jesus H. Christ! This is an organization which eases the pain at the end of life? I'm just getting a good dose of angst from all this! Finally, I spoke with the Case Manager and asked point blank: Has our nurse left the company? and got: Oh no, she needed a break. She'll be back on Monday. Another J.H.C! Am I to believe that this company which doles out 12 cents an hour raises to their nurses also gives them 5-day long weekend breaks, leaving their patients in limbo? More on this next week. I have my money on our getting a new hospice nurse then. I'll be shocked to see our regular one return. But, I will "eat crow" if necessary.

 

Dealing with end-of-life issues as I am, I start to look around and say: I have collected a mother-lode of yarn which will be left, one day, to a bunch of non-knitters. This is why I Russian-joined together 2 and 1/2 small containers of remnant yarn to make DM this hospital bed cover:

#1 Corner to Corner Afghan

It's the Red Heart Corner-To-Corner Afghan:

http://www.redheart.com/free-patterns/crochet-corner-corner-throw

 

which was the pattern I used for the first lace shawl I ever made. The pattern above just goes from the increase section to the decrease section so you produce a square. However, I remembered the way you make this into a rectangle: At your width, increase at the beginning to the row and decrease at the end. Keep the increases on one end and the decreases on the other until you reach your length. (Just read the directions for the decrease section, it's very easy to figure this method out.) Once you reach the length you want, work the pattern for the decreasing rows. You'll find that a lot of yarn gets used in this decreasing section. Here's a close-up picture of the pattern detail:

#2 Pattern detail

I have to say this was the most fun in crocheting or knitting that I've had in a long while. Mindless but the color changes kept me interested.

Also this week, I'm working on another Bow Tie Pi shawl (see last Friday for pattern link.) That also is such a fun pattern to work. I'm making it in white since I only have one white shawl. This is more of a caplet style shawl. I wore the other one I made in beige cotton thread to Sam's Club last week and I was very pleased that the cluster edging (see last Friday) made a very soft "collar."

 

Here's the new one:

#3 Bow Tie Pi

And finally, remember the black cotton cardi which became the black cotton top? Well, it now dwells in the frog pond. I really don't like heavier black cotton but I keep knitting it. However, I tried on a black shrug I made some time ago in a heavier black cotton. Here's the pattern:

http://cache.lionbrand.com/cgi-bin/patternFinder.fcgi?language=&store=%2Fstores%2Flionbrand&search=1&searchText=lacy+knit+shrug&submit.x=0&submit.y=0

 

and that one looks good. So, I hope to make another one in black, ASAP.

 

Some suggestions for this shrug:

1. Read the comments for hints.

2. Work the sleeve ribbing in seed and in the round.

3. Work the sleeve ribbing on smaller needles and fewer stitches then the body.

4. Once you finish your last row of seed ribbing, increase to the number of stitches you need for the body (it's a P row so this is easy) and change your needle size up.

5. Work across to the other sleeve ribbing, keeping a few stitches (add these to the count you increased to) in seed on the long ends.

6. Once you reach the other sleeve ribbing, decrease your needle size, stitch count and start knitting in the round again.

 

That's it. Easy as pie!

That's it for this week. See you next week. Happy knitting.