I recently experienced a hard disk failure and lost my info about how to post here, but I've got almost everything restored and back to normal now, and I'm ready to update!
I'm knitting Audrey in Coffee Bean, which is a rich dark brown just as the name suggests. I finished knitting all the pieces of Audrey a couple of weeks ago, but lost steam to sew her together since the temps in my part of CA have been a little too warm to wear her. But I picked her up again this weekend and finished all the seaming except the lace neckband. Let me just say that this yarn is a-stretchy! Sans the neckband, when I tried her on, the neckline of the sweater just stretched out and was giving me a Flashdance peek-a-boo shoulder kind of look. I'm glad that I decided to go with the smaller size--even though I was nervous about it through all the knitting--knowing that anything I knit in a normal non-stretchy yarn would be too small for me knitting the size I was.
I got about halfway through sewing the neckband on when I realized it wasn't going to work. I needed to match up the fabric better so that I didn't end up with the bodice all bunched up at the end. Hmmm, gotta figure out how to do this. At this point I tried on the sweater to see how it looked and for the most part it looked great, but I also noticed that the neckband was drooping a bit. When I stretched it out more, it didn't droop. So in addition to doing the seam again, I think I need to rip out a couple of the lace pattern repeats and shorten the neckband.
Does anyone have any tips about sewing on the neckband? How many of the lace pattern repeats are in the finished neckbands? Thanks for any tips you can send my way.
Posted by Sharlene at May 8, 2004 07:47 PM"To get the neck edging the right lenght seems to be a smallish problem. At least for me. I thought I had measured it right. I sew it in place, and it was waaaaay too long. I opened all the small stitches, frogged three pattern lenghts, sew it in place, tested, still too long, two more pattern lenghts frogged - now it seems to be the right lenght, with 26 pattern lenghts for size S."
This is what I wrote on April 16. Welcome to frog pond ;-)