It’s so long since I put my swatch down that I couldn’t remember which pattern row I was up to, or how to do the second row. Yay for blogging - having documentation rocks! Once I had that figured out I sat down with pen, paper and calculator and worked out the best way to redistribute the raglan increases. The increases are kind of erratically placed as written and it seems it would be better for them to be more even when knit all in one piece.

During the last few weeks of not knitting I have been thinking about Carla a lot and had recently come to the wonderful realisation that the dropped stitches on the sleeves actually need to be dropped from the wrist end when knit in reverse (duh!). So that is another of my outstanding problems solved. I think my pattern re-write is good to go.

This is all good right? Well it would be if I could figure out how to measure the gauge on such stretchy lacy fabric and I still need to finally decide whether to actually go with this approach or not. I have come to the conclusion that I can probably knit neat enough edge stitches to knit and seam Carla as Rowan intended, which would be so much simpler, at least in terms of being confident I would get the right look to the sweater. On the other hand I have done all this work to figure out a top down pattern and it would much more easily allow me to get the exact length I want on the arms and body.

I.just.don’t.know.what.to.do.