I've been monogamous (nearly)

I promised myself and the blog that I wouldn't swatch my newly acquired Classy until I had finished T's fatigue jersey. Well I haven't, but I may have done a teeny tiny swatch of Yorkshire Tweed 4-ply:

This is going to be a Katherine Hepburn cardigan from Lace Style. I saw a lovely version on Ravelry done in Yorkshire Tweed 4-ply and it so happened that Janette had a special offer on this colour (Lustre) and Barley (which I went back and ordered later). The combination of little cables and small lace pattern is lovely, I think. Yes, I know the cables bend different ways top and bottom - I was practising cabling without a cable needle! (And, yes, I realised when I'd finished that I had done the wrong double decrease - it will be centred in the real thing.)

But I have made really good progress on the fatigue. I'm doing a seamless hybrid raglan with the shirt yoke variation from Elizabeth Zimmermann's Knitting Workshop. I have made a body and two sleeves and have knitted them together into a yoke, decreasing at the raglan seam lines every three rows as instructed. Now I have split the front for the placket, which means I'm no longer working in the round. I was pleased to be able to work out a double purl decrease which seems to match the knit ones OK.

I had to pause for thought about how the diagonal sides of the placket and the raglan shaping were going to interact. I've decided just to go for it and see what happens - fudging is my middle name!

Comments

[dawn]

Well done, you have iron willpower! I think your swatch is lovely, and if you stay monogamous you might just finish this in less than a week. I find it difficult to knit on something for more than a few days!