My Swirl Yoke Sweater was coming along so beautifully. I grafted the 7 underarm stitches without a hitch. Then I tried to close the "sloppy stitches" at either end of the grafted stitches. Even following Meg's directions, you can see how awkward my attempt is.
Here it is in all its close-up ugliness.
Clearly this is something I need to work on. I think a big part of my problem is that I don't fully understand the way the stitches are supposed to come together. Some people learn to "read" their knitting faster than others, and I'm not one of the fast ones. Lucky me, I have a second arm to practice on.
And then I have another error to report. In her gracious way, Meg pointed out that in my journaling from camp, I mixed up SSK with CDD. Here is how she explained the latter to me:
The cdd (centered double-decread\se): slip 2 tog k'wise, k1, p2sso
Barbara Walker's original ssk: slip 1 k'wise, slip 1 k'wise, insert L needle and k2tog
Dee Barrington's variation of ssk: slip 1 k'wise, slip 1 p'wise, insert L needle and k2tog.
Hopefully you can learn from my mistakes!
