'I've been dithering about how to do the first bind offs for the armhole shaping. I'm knitting the body in one piece. I've been told to do the bind offs for each arm hole all on one row. That will make some of the bind off stitches lie away from the body rather than towards the body. For some reason that bothers me.
So I looked around online for ideas of how other people handled this and reread Cara's CPH entries on her blog January One. She used a Beaverslide yarn for her CPH, too, but a different yarn than the McTaggart Tweed Fisherman I am using. I remembered her swatch went from 6 rows per inch to 7 rows per inch after washing so she recalculated the dimensions to accomodate this change.
I decided to examing my row gauge and sure enough my washed swatch was a good 7 rows per inch and my CPH is exactly 6 rows per inch. After some time with my measuring tape and calculator I am going to knit an extra 2 inches before binding off for the arm holes.
Meanwhile I still need to figure out if it matters if the bound off stitches lie away from the body.
Any advice would be welcome.
2 comments:
It shouldn't matter - the bound stitches will be hidden when you seam in the sleeves anyway.
i have a quick question, how did you adjust the pattern to knit the sides and back together? i think i'd love to do it that way to avoid bumpy seams, but not if it will give me a horrible headache....
thanks in advance for the advice.
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