Wednesday 13 July 2011

WIP Wednesday - Week 1

Well hello there!  It's WIP Wednesday and Hump Day!
I'm frantically trying to finish Blues before FO Friday and Update Sunday!  I'm convinced that I should have been further with Blues. 

I loathe sewing up, really no matter how I sew items up I am in a foul mood until its done.  So I have been thinking about doing sleeves in a round.  I already do my back and fronts in a round and then divide it at the armholes.

BUT

That would mean I couldn't do two at a time, unless I learn the magic loop trick.  So please vote on my poll and also let me know if you have any other short cuts that I haven't thought of to get around sewing!

I DID IT!!  I finished the required amount of cm (37) for the body of the Blues!!!!!

17 comments:

  1. I've only made one garment where the sleeves WEREN'T in the round and it drove me completely bonkers - and it was only a little tiny toddler shrug too! I'd NEVER sew a sleeve up again. Ever.

    That's my take on it anyway :)

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  2. Love the colors! I am partial to blues. I can't wait to see it finished.

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  3. I hate seaming, but I'm not very good at magic loop - so I'm no good for advice I'm afraid ;) Love the colours, it's looking fab :)

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  4. Good luck with the sweater! I think learning new techniques is always the way to go :)

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  5. That's a beautiful color yarn! I say Magic Loop! I've done it for socks a hat and sleeves (though not both at once). I'm knitting two socks at once on Magic Loop now, and although it seems to take forever to do a round, when I'm done, I'll be totally DONE!

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  6. Another vote for learning magic loop. I haven't done two at a time but magic loop is really easy once you get going.
    Love the colours in your Blues!

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  7. Magic loop everytime! I can't abide sewing up!

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  8. I learned from a friend how to knit sleeves top down, in the round. She had taken a class from Sarah Peasley who teaches a method of picking up stitches around the armhole and then knitting the sleeve cap with short rows so that the sleeve still fit as well as set in sleeves. I love the method and I think it is worth not being able to do them 2-at-a-time. I know that doesn't tell you exactly how to do buy maybe it is online somewhere?

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  9. I hate when I am knitting to a length and keep measuring to find I am nowhere close! Love the colors in that.

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  10. Good for finishing the required amount! I have all 5 books now, but I also bought 2 new books this morning...my Hubs and I are both readers, as are my MIL and SIL and we have a tremendous amount of books!...Plus the Hubs has a Nook....Are you in the Nerd Wars too?

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  11. I have to admit that after doing some more research on the Magic Loop it looks extremely fiddly and might be even more time consuming. Anyway I will give it a bash! Thanks for all the comments they are read and appreciated!

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  12. love the colours on this - good luck with the magic loop - hope it goes well :)

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  13. I don't like stitching things up either, doing a ghan right now and foricing myself to piece together sorta as I go so I don't have to do it all at the end; but haven't done 2 at a time, or the magic loop thing, so can't offer a vote or opinion for you. Good luck, and thanks for the visit.

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  14. Oh I HATE seaming also! I'm terrible at it, which is why I try to do everything in the round!

    Magic loop is really straight forward once you get your head around it. I think it's one of those things that looks a lot more complicated than it actually is!

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  15. Seaming is about the worst part of knitting/crocheting for me. I crochet things together whenever at all possible and even that drives me a little crazy. :(
    I think doing the sleeves in the round would be ideal. And hey, an excuse to learn something new, right? ;)

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  16. I do really love the color of that yarn you're using.

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