THE Miss Lemon Sweater - Part 2 - Knitting...

Just a quick post to let you all know I'm still alive.

{Tee hee} ;)

Well, I've been feverishly knitting away at my sweater.
I am absolutely in love with the color of the yarn.
I think it's simply perfect!
(Thank you, Lord!)

 

After I had the back & left front completed

I started to measure the front edge to space the buttonholes evenly on the right front.

I took another look at the pictures to see how many buttons the original had.

I counted 5, but found a problem.

Look at the bottom band - no buttons.

I had read here that this sweater is a pullover made to look like a cardigan.

But, I wanted to make a cardigan.

I can see now that this would just make it harder for me.

So...I ripped back the left front & just made a whole front.

(If only I would think things through in the first place

I would save myself so much time & frustration!)

Oh well! Lesson learned. :)

I think it will be much easier to do the slip-through bow with the band just added to the front.

Rather than trying to finagle it through an opening in the front band of a cardi

using some sort of giant buttonhole.

All I have left to knit is 1/2 a sleeve, the bow, & the band.

I'm just doing plain stockinette stitch so it's moving along nice & quickly.

I plan on using grosgrain ribbon or bias tape to face the neck opening.

Well, it's waiting for me in my comfy knitting chair.

Best get back to it...I only have 2 days.

^_~