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Ponderings

With my new Addi bamboo circular out on injured reserve (and the knitting shops closed for the holiday), I had to go back to my sock. A plain-vanilla kind of sock with some Regia short color. Bo-ring.

I've devoted a lot of idle thought to the problem of the length of Roscalie. At first, I thought I would have to rip back to the hem. I was thinking the only way I could add length without messing up the pattern sequence would be to start over at an 'earlier' point in the pattern sequence.

But after thinking about it some more, I don't think there's anything magical about the point in the sequence where the sleeve starts. I think I'll be able to just knit up the body to the desired length (maybe adding as much as 3-4 inches, since my row gauge is off), start the sleeves and neck shaping, and then just end at the shoulders at a different point farther along in the sequence. I think the shoulders end at one of the skinny blue stripes, and those come up every 10-14 rows in the sequence.

I think I'll devote some of my down time to charting out the exact pattern sequence for what I intend to do.

I think the next crisis point will be to run out of yarn. The worst case scenario will be having to buy about $20 worth of additional yarn from Virtual Yarns. That seems like a small price to pay to get a sweater with a nice fit as opposed to one that cuts me off at an unflattering part of my midsection.

In a way, maybe breaking that needle was a good thing. Instead of maniacally knitting away, I've been forced to take a break to stop and think.

Speaking of knitting maniacally, that reminds me that I haven't restored my sidebar link to Pee Wee Herman's "knitting and knitting" sound bite. Maybe I'll get it back up and running tomorrow.

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