The newest (restart) of a project is the Dancing Elephant sweater. I started the sweater on circulars US 4, and realized ... I have a knitting machine. Slap that sweater on the machine to do the stockingette for the back, fronts and sleeves! The first sweater on the machine was a top down cardigan from a lovely pattern called Amande Cardigan. I'm still seaming and finishing all the hems ... But I'm finishing that sweater in a few weeks, instead of my usual 2 months because of tendonitis.
The first sweater was a top-down with the entire beginning hand-knit. This meant that I already had something to slap onto the machine.
Luckily with the elephants I had already knit the ribbing and could slap that onto the machine in three parts. Otherwise I could have done a provisional cast on for each piece and then picked those up later to knit the ribbing in one piece going the other direction. It wouldn't have been very noticeable and wouldn't have required me to do the ribbing before the machine bits.
I started with the back stitches first to determine length. Then the two front pieces. I carefully put the different sets of stitches onto the machine.
The back was knit straight to the 17" armpit mark. The two fronts were knit to 14" and then along the seam edge were increased as a way of making a dart and a better fit for the female body. All the piecework were the. Removed back onto a US4 circular. I slowly insert the knitting needle into the stitches while on the machine and pull the machine latch out of the loop while the knitting needle is there. TADA! The stitches end up on the knitting needle!
This afternoon I finished the two fronts and back panels. At singing this evening I'll cast on and create the ribbing pieces for the two sleeves and I can slap those on the machine tomorrow!
More notes later!
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