Here's where the Women's Cardigan by Lea Petäjä is at this point. I finished the pockets and am starting the sleeves, using two circular needles. This project is going to need some serious blocking before adding the button/buttonhole bands down the front.
You may remember from last week that I had started the pocket. I made two pocket ribbing borders, and had put them to the side until I was ready. When I finished the body down to the point where I wanted the pockets to start, I worked the row at the top of the pockets by taking the affected stitches off as I came to them (10 stitches in from the beginning and end of the row) and putting them on waste yarn, then continuing on with the row. On the way back, I picked up the live stitches on the border sections when I came to the missing stitches. Then I continued knitting as if the pockets were irrelevant. Here's what it looked like.
This week I continued knitting until I was ready to add the ribbing to the border. I put all the stitches on the smaller circular needle for the ribbing and went back to the pockets. I picked up the stitches held on the waste yarn and knitted a pocket lining, for as many rows as I had knit to get to the bottom (31 rows, in this case). Now I had live stitches on my ribbing needle and live stitches at the bottom of the pocket lining. I put a stitch marker at the place where each side of the pocket should end up in the ribbing. As I was working the first row of ribbing, I knit the pocket lining stitches together with the body stitches at the appropriate places. After binding off the ribbing, it was time to finish the pockets. I sewed down the pocket ribbing on the outside. I wanted the stitches holding the two sides of the pocket lining to line up, so I used my waste yarn to make a line of basting stitches all the way down on each side, making sure I stayed inside one vertical row of stitches. Then I sewed the pocket edges to the body, picking up the inside of the body right where the basting stitches indicated.
Here's how it looked before I picked up the sleeve stitches. (I managed to get a little rainbow on the left pocket, caused by sun shining though the window. A good omen?) The center front edges are curling, as might be expected, with all that uninterrupted stockinette stitch, but I'm hoping that blocking and adding the button/buttonhole bands will take care of that.
My manuscript has gone to my science editor (Charlie, and man of many talents) and he's already found a couple of missing quotation marks. That was caused by breaking up a quote to fit the page breaks and photos that needed moving. That's why Charlie gets the big bucks, after all.
We're leaving Tuesday to go camping at LaPine with Jim. He's planning now to come on Wednesday, because a storm is expected Tuesday afternoon/evening, and he will have to get over the mountains to reach the campground from his place in Florence. I cleaned the trailer yesterday, because this will be our first trip of the year. I made the bed and have started carrying things there to put away. Charlie filled up the Silverado with gas. It cost $99. (We probably won't be going very far for camping this year.) We hooked up the RPod to the pickup, which is always a difficult job, because we don't have any backup camera in the pickup. Fortunately, LaPine, where we will go first, and Suttle Lake, for the last couple of nights, are nice places to camp and not very far away.
I made the Arizona Pumpkin Soup, with a couple of changes. First of all, the recipe makes a lot of soup, and I had told my in-house grocery shopping servant (also Charlie) to get canned pumpkin. He bought one 15-oz can, or roughly half what the recipe calls for. So I just cut all the ingredients in half. Then, I like cooking in the morning, not late afternoon and evening, so I used my slow-cooker. I just sautéed what had to be sautéed and put everything into the slow-cooker. It turned out great!
It's from The Enchanted Broccoli Forest by Mollie Katzen. I've had this cookbook and several others of hers for years. They're all full of Post-Its, dog-eared by time.
I served it with some of my whole-wheat sourdough bread. To make sure we had enough protein, I made a silken-tofu carob pudding for dessert.
I've been watching that planet in the sky in the evenings. Monday night at 9:20 I went out to look and found the moon smiling at the planet. (Jupiter? I'm still not sure.) It's hard to get a good photo, with the porch light and the neighbors' lights on. Added to this problem is the problem of taking a longer exposure while holding the phone still, but this will give you an idea.
The planet is now higher in the sky, and the moon has moved on, having perhaps other places to visit.
Sunday Trinity celebrated Pentecost with a worship service on the lawn that surrounds the Deschutes Historical Museum, which is housed in a building that used to be an elementary school.
We were supposed wear red, if we could. I wore a red blouse, red socks, a red shawlette and my resistance hat. Julie, who gave me a ride, forgot to wear red, so I gave her my shawlette. Several women came up to me after the service and said they have the same had and should have worn them. One lady said at a recent small weekday protest of about 50 people she counted 15 of these hats.
For this week's cuteness, here's our grandcat Mango. He looks as if he might not fit through the pet door, but he does. Most of that bulk is hair.
We're still doing our weekly Zoom meetings with the family every Sunday, unless something else is going on or we're camping. Next week's Zoom call AND next week's blog post may be an issue, if we don't have internet and/or cell phone service. Don't worry about us if this blog doesn't appear on time.
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What's in The Doll's Storybook: Three of the dolls (Billy, Mariah and Emil) have differing opinions on where they think our water for drinking and washing comes from. It turns out, they are all right...partly. This week's story from The Doll's Storybook is All About Water.
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