Knitlog [2026-01-21 Wed]

Heart and Chain Sweater

Wow, it took me way much longer to finish the joining front and back than I expected. Mostly because I went back to fix the holes in the armpit. Eventually here are what I did:

• Rnd 1: When joining front and back, CO 8 sts on each side, using cable cast on. Bind the last CO st off with the next one (7 CO sts)
• Rnd 2: In the following round, when encountering the gap before the 1st CO st (aka last st of the slip rib panel), do a lifted decrease to close the gap. Knit all CO sts. (7 CO sts)
• Rnd 3: Knit all CO sts
• Rnd 4: For the first CO st, k2tog (6 CO sts)

To maintain the slip rib panel:

• Row 71 (joining front and back): k3, *sl1wyif, k3, repeat from * to end of row
• Row 72: p1, *sl1wyib, p3, repeat from * to last two stitches, sl1wyib, p1 Repeat the two rows

I think I finally was able to memorize all the cable legends! I still need to look at the chart though as I don’t know about the repeat. I also fixed a wrong cable 5 rows below so I’m very proud of myself. Yay!

Robin Socks

I managed to successfully perform a surgery on the robin socks! The main reason is I don’t want to unravel the whole thing and start it all over again, so I decided to split it in the middle, so that I only had to knit the colourwork in reverse. So clever! Of course, the stitch definition would be inverse, but that’s ok.