Margot Approaches Completion

Margo, Assembled

It was a happy weekend filled with John and my usual last-minute shopping efforts and a holiday party at a friends house and liberal dose of X-box game playing. Not so much knitting occurred, but I did get Margot seamed up. Margot is definitely going to need some edging around the front opening and neckline and perhaps even a button or a clasp before she will begin to be what I want her to be.

(It should probably be noted here that I decided not to rip the front panel that I thought looked more pink. My reasoning for this was two fold: 1) the panel as is now has a homogeneous kind of color, and the ball that I added to finish the panel started somewhere in the middle. The skein I have left over is likely to look very different, especially if started in the middle, and it takes a little more than one skein to complete the front panel 2) the garment hangs at an angle with me in the middle, when I actually put it on after it was seamed up, I didn't even notice the difference on each side. Thus I decided that discretion was the better part of valor here and no ripping and re-knitting was attempted).

I've left all the ends from the seaming of the sleeves and sides un-woven in. There's a nagging little doubt in the back of my mind that says I might have to re-work some aspect of them and having to deal with un-weaving ends would just make the process more difficult. When I tried the sweater on last night, it was a little tighter in the arm-hole/shoulder area than I would have liked. I know better than to completely judge a garment before all the trim/structural elements have been added (and a crochet edging will definitely add structure). But I also have a feeling that the bind off edge of the sleeve caps may have been too tight and that I am going to need to re-bind off while thinking very sloppy loose thoughts.