It started off great and I was excited to do the steaking and the sleeves joining and cardigan cutting. All went well till I cut it and then realized that I miscalculated the body and the arm holes were cut too close to the back and made it too small for Leo. I still finished the sweater but it’s my lounge sweater for home now. I am still glad to learn the techniques to do a drop shoulder sweater in the round and the steaking though. I am going to cast on another one for Leo in the same yarn. Good thing I ordered too much for one. I found more and ordered enough to make another one. It’s cheap so I don’t feel too bad about the mistake.
I’ve been watching Elizabeth Zimmerman’s DVDs and Meg Swanson’s cardigan DVD. I’m learning a lot from these DVDs, it really helps to see something done than trying to decipher from the written instructions. A lot of learning is visual like dancing and knitting and most of other things I’m trying to learn. Like trying to learn how to better use my Nikon SLR has been so painfully frustrating. I can read about apature, shutter speed and ISO till my teeth fall out, but I still can’t apply to real situations. I’m having a hard time taking pictures in the studio because of the lighting, and I still can’t figure out how to adjust the silly camera. It just refuses to snap a picture when I pressed the button. Very frustrating….