Prelude | Part One | Part Two | Part Three
Moaning about my three WiPs the other week turned out to be weirdly motivating, and now I’ve finished my third Promenade!
That motivation initially took the form of deciding not to use up all the lace, as I’d originally planned, and instead get to casting off straight away rather than make work for myself. I did that, washed and blocked… and decided that the neckline was too wide.
I cut the existing ribbing right off with scissors (still very much in ‘get ‘er done’ mode), picked up the live stitches of the second last row of ribbing and knitted upwards with a 3mm needle. Tried it back on. Neck was now too tight. Un-did and re-did the cast off with 4mm needles instead. Much better.
Then I decided it was too short everywhere, both sleeves and body. Insert facepalm or eyeroll here, as you prefer.
In my defence, the sleeves were possibly too short because I brought the neckline in considerably, therefore hoiking them up a bit. The body… I should have listened to my instinct and just kept knitting till I ran out of yarn.
Sometimes you have to go forward, to go backward, to go forward.
Anyway, I unravelled the hem and added three extra stripes, unraveled each cuff and added two extra stripes, then replaced the ribbing on all three bits. Another wash and block (this one a bit more aggressive on the sleeve) and here we are.
No yarn left to go back into stash, and one lovely jumper!
As a final reminder, this is the Promenade blouse (Ravelry link) pattern by Caidree (Designer’s site). I made a size M using reclaimed black DK yarn (250g) and Malabrigo lace in Zarzamora (50g).
In the end, I worked stripes until I’d used up all the yarn, rather than following the pattern. I also split for the sleeves one stripe early for a better fit, and didn’t do any decreases on the sleeves. I unpicked the collar ribbing and re-did, knitting upwards this time, with 3mm needles, and binding off with 4mm needles.
I’ve added this post to the Unraveled Wednesday linkup, with thanks to Kat for hosting.
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