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Sleeves done, second grey ball of yarn all used up. The front is now about 50 cm long.
I bought a 65 cm zipper - I might have been too cautious about the length I can reach with my available yarn ... But then I need to reserve a bit of yarn for bands along the front as well. And a pair of matching fingerless mitts might be a great addition.
I took the cardigan with me to a large knitting meet up (25 people or so).
I managed to make the second sleeve the same length as the first and I did end up with the same amount of decreases. But they are not always spaced as evenly on the second one as they were on the first one.
I should have learned my lesson by now: anything that requires counting is not fit for knitting group. Especially not for large groups
But it's fine, nobody will notice.
I've 3 balls of the grey yarn (and one pink). In this picture the first grey ball is getting close to used up. I'll continue until I'm done with it.
Next: finish the neckline (picking up sts and making a double layered 1x1 rib in pink - probably).
Then: sleeves and the final length will be the rest of the yarn.
Color transition completed - now I need another 20 rows until I can separate between sleeves and body.
I've crunched the numbers, so I'm a bit ahead of my knitting in that part.
I also bought a zipper yesterday. I think it's easier to adjust the length of the garment to the available zpper than the other way around.
New project - this time a cardigan.
I bought the yarn this summer in Denmark as a souvenir with the vague idea to make a cardigan / jacket with stranded colorwork at the yoke. On a black and white picture the colors have enough contrast against each other, but the heathering eats finer details, so it's going to be a very simple zig-zag.
The yoke will be based on the percentag system from "Knitting in the old way" but top down