I knit the left front yesterday, you can see it here already attached to the back with a two needle bind off. I seem to be knitting tighter as I go along, it’s slightly shorter than than the back despite having the exact same number of rows. I choose to believe it will block out. I also choose to believe that button band will block flat. I seem to have issues with edge stitches. I can’t seem to find the balance between nice neat firm edge stitches and doing them so tight they cinch the whole thing in.

Thank you all for your button advice. I can certainly see where Carol is coming from, suggesting that flowers are still the best option, but I think I am going to go with the majority here and go the lady bird buttons. I will use the time I would have spent trying to learn embroidery knitting a pair of shoes.

In other news we bought Isabelle a trampoline today, you can see it in the phone, right there under the DB Jacket With Moss Stitch Bands. I confess that I was very impressed with myself for building the thing all on my own (Isabelle did help in her own three yearold way). But yikes was that one dirty job, my hands were completely black, my clothes are filthy. I have washed my hands repeatedly and they do now look clean but an hour later they still stink. I keep absent mindedly putting my hands near my face an then wandering where the terrible smell is coming from. I am actually worried that if I knit while they smell like this my knitting will stink too!