Put Me Down

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Well, I was hoping to be farther along on this by now, but progress is still being made:

The second sleeve has a few more rows to go, and then I will “put the stitches down” in to the body of the sweater and work on the collar. I am putting down stitches, as opposed to binding off and sewing the sleeve onto the body for a few reasons:

• I am not all that crazy about sewing on sleeves, and putting down stitches takes about the same amount of time for me as binding off and sewing the sleeve on.
• I think it gives a more secure join
• Because of the stitch pattern, I am able to conceal the bind of from the put-down in a ridge, so it will produce less bulk for the seam
• I am not all that crazy about…. Oh, I said that one already.

Here is what the join looks like on the right side:

And on the wrong side:

See? The bind off of the sleeve (running vertically in that last picture) is pretty much falling into the valley of the shaker knit rib. Doesn’t mean I wouldn’t do it for other stitch patterns, but this one kind of lent itself to it.

I can’t wait to get this done, mostly because I have kind of become tired of it for some reason. It also could be because I feel someone else is waiting for it, even though that someone else doesn’t even know it is being made for her. Kookie, I know. In any case, it should done by this weekend, after I go on a button-hunt for it.