My last post took us to a place in the Baby Sweater where I was at a crossroads – well, not a crossroads per say, but a place in my knitting that I had never been before.
As I mentioned, I have only completed one sweater – the one I made for the Man, completed earlier this year after the weather made it to the 90s. With raglan construction, you start at the neck, work your way down the shoulders, when you get to the sleeves you offload those stitches onto scrap yarn – then you just keep knitting down the body. When the body is complete, you head back to the sleeves, insert a circular needle and go to town with intermittent decreases until you have birthed a full on sleeve. Read the rest of this entry »