{"id":287,"date":"2005-01-23T09:11:37","date_gmt":"2005-01-22T23:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.randomknits.net\/?p=287"},"modified":"2005-01-23T09:11:37","modified_gmt":"2005-01-22T23:11:37","slug":"making-excellent-progress-on-my","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/?p=287","title":{"rendered":"Making excellent progress on my"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Making excellent progress on my Ribby sleeves. I&#8217;m probably about to jinx myself, but I love this sweater. It is <i>flying<\/i> off the needles! It&#8217;s a great pattern, and the Highland wool is gorgeous to knit.<br \/>\nBecause a few people asked, here is how I prefer to knit sleeves. Or two fronts of a cardigan together.<br \/>\n<center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ribbysleeves.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/ribbysleeves.jpg\" width=\"382\" height=\"349\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center><br \/>\nI cast on for one sleeve, then before I turn and start to knit that sleeve, I cast on on the same needle for sleeve number 2. <i>Then<\/i> turn and knit the first row of sleeve 2, then the first row of sleeve 1, turn my work, knit the second row of sleeve 1, then the second row of sleeve 2, and so on. When I first started doing sleeves like this, I had problems remembering which sleeve I had just knit on if I stopped in the middle. I would be unsure if I was supposed to do a row on sleeve 2, or if I had just done a row on sleeve 2.<br \/>\nThen I picked up this tip from someone&#8217;s blog. (I can&#8217;t remember whose, but if I could I would give them full credit. They&#8217;ve made my knitting so much easier!) I pin the sleeves together with a small stitch holder. Then I <i>can&#8217;t<\/i> stop in the middle!<br \/>\nIt is so easy. All the increases are done at the same time, and all the decreases are done at the same time. It seems to go so much faster for me than knitting them one at a time. And I can see how my yarn is going and if I am going to run out or not. I wouldn&#8217;t knit sleeves any other way now \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Making excellent progress on my Ribby sleeves. I&#8217;m probably about to jinx myself, but I love this sweater. It is flying off the needles! It&#8217;s a great pattern, and the Highland wool is gorgeous to knit. Because a few people asked, here is how I prefer to knit sleeves. Or two fronts of a cardigan [&hellip;]<\/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-287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287","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=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}