Working on the button band
I've cut those steeks and am knitting on that button band. I don’t have the buttons and am slightly undecided about how big to make the button holes. I’m on the row where the button hole must be made. I think a 4 stitch button hole ought to be big enough for most any button I might buy. I have lots of buttons - thousands of buttons - but I don’t have enough of either brown or red buttons of the correct size for this sweater. I could just make the button holes and buy buttons to fit. I may do that or I may wait till I see what’s for sale in town today. I don’t want anything fancy for buttons, nor anything heavy. The KipFee is fancy enough. I also struggled with how many buttons I’ll want. 7 is the usual in a sweater for an adult female, this pattern calls for 14 little ones. I marked 7 places and it looks okay but I believe I’ll make 9. More buttons means smaller holes. I’ll make a 4 stitch button hole and see what it looks like - if I don’t like it I can rip it out and make a 3 stitch one.
Because darling wise clever generous Meg Swansen made the most wonderful video on Cardigan Details and I have watched it and remembered about that one row button hole. So I can make one and rip it out without having to rip out a whole row of button band stitches. She even shows you how to do the clever knitting math to figure out how to space your button holes. Meg is a counter and I have secret counting tendencies myself. (Yep. I count how many rows I knit in the body of a sock and then knit that same number on the second sock.)
No photos today. I have some "work in progress" photos, but I'm just so close to the end I want to wait to post photos. I think, weather permitting, I'll have pictures on Wednesday.
Bess, I'm sure you are so excited to be so near to finishing this sweater! I've been wishing the past few days that I had been working on it more because it'll be so thick (and mine will be BIG) it will make such a nice jacket on chilly days when you don't quite need a coat! Looking forward to your FO photos! How exciting!
Posted by: Laura | February 13, 2007 at 04:19 PM