I made a Baby Surprise Jacket for my officemate's baby. You might remember how happily I chirped about this project when I first started it. Things went south from there. Whenever I make stripes I worry that I am doing them wrong, and I spent a big chunk of my knitting time on this little jacket convinced that there was too much black in the middle section.
It took me some time to warm to the BSJ. I ended up throwing away my first-ever attempt, in part because I was using cheap dishcloth cotton that developed a nasty snarl, but also because I am more a product knitter than a process knitter and I could not for the life of me see a nascent product in the first few dozen rows of the BSJ. Now I know that for each row in the beginning you knit around one wrist and then up to the shoulder, across the neck and down the other arm, ending with a circuit around the opposite wrist. You're knitting a little bolero, which you'll lengthen later.
I was carefully weighing my yarn as I went along so I didn't run out in the middle of a row, and can you guess what happened? Somehow, mysteriously, I ran out of lavender yarn about 40 stitches from the end of the bind-off. Oh, I was SO mad. I thought about throwing it on the compost heap, and was restrained from doing so solely by the unfortunate fact that I have no compost heap. (Yet. Maybe that's an August project.)
I devised a solution involving a provisionally cast-on I-cord bind-off, and then I-corded all the rest of the way around so I could graft my two batches of I-cord together. It worked, even though I spent a couple of weeks thinking of it as the Blasted Stinking Jacket, and I hope my officemate enjoys it.
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