{"id":1080,"date":"2012-02-05T14:40:18","date_gmt":"2012-02-05T04:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.randomknits.net\/?p=1080"},"modified":"2012-02-05T14:40:18","modified_gmt":"2012-02-05T04:40:18","slug":"the-bodice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/?p=1080","title":{"rendered":"The Bodice"},"content":{"rendered":"

Week Two of the Ella KAL finished on Monday – and the goal for week two was to finish the bodice. Success!
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\nI’m quite pleased with the fit. There’s about two inches left between the bodice fronts to allow for the ruffle, but judging by the way my swatch grew, I expect this will be a little bigger when all is said and done.
\nI am a little concerned about the size of those armholes, but weeks 3 & 4 are for sleeves, so I’m reserving judgement until the sleeves are done and I can see how it all goes together. We’ve got two weeks to do the sleeves, and so far I’m on target to finish these by next Monday. As usual, I’m doing both sleeves at the same time.
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\nIncluding my awesome, high tech counting method that I always use for sleeve shaping.
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\nA post it note, with the increase rows noted, and counted off one at a time. Don’t knock it, it works!
\nTAFE starts this week, so my time may be more restricted than I think. I’m a little nervous about the impact on my time that TAFE will have.
\nBut I had a little quiet time in the shop this week, so I started something new there, too.
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\nStarr by Martin Storey<\/a> from Rowan Miniature Classics<\/a>, in Debbie Bliss Baby Cashmerino.
\nThe pattern calls for Rowan Cashsoft DK, which is a 57% Merino, 33% Microfibre, 10% Cashmere mix, in a 50g ball with 130m per ball. I’m using Debbie Bliss Baby Cashmerino which is 55% Wool, 33% Microfibre, and 12% Cashmere in a 50g ball, but has only 125m per ball.
\nSomehow, the sportweight Baby Cashmerino has less yardage than the DK Cashsoft witha similar composition. Colour me confused! For what it’s worth, DB Cashmerino DK has only 110m per ball.
\nAnyway, the Cashmerino Baby is subbing nicely for the Cashsoft DK, the tension is perfect, and the resulting fabric is lovely. And how cute is the sweater?!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Week Two of the Ella KAL finished on Monday – and the goal for week two was to finish the bodice. Success! I’m quite pleased with the fit. There’s about two inches left between the bodice fronts to allow for the ruffle, but judging by the way my swatch grew, I expect this will be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}