{"id":276,"date":"2007-09-13T16:22:20","date_gmt":"2007-09-13T21:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/life.tanapageler.com\/?p=276"},"modified":"2007-09-13T16:22:20","modified_gmt":"2007-09-13T21:22:20","slug":"pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/life.tanapageler.com\/?p=276","title":{"rendered":"Pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Jackson\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Ah! The story of a little sweater.<\/p>\n

I started making it, well, way back at the beginning of this year. It was a little pullover for my cousin Heidi’s little boy who is a couple weeks younger than Joey.<\/p>\n

The yarn was from Knitpicks – Swish Superwash – color: Deep Ocean.<\/p>\n

The design was essentially my own – a simple raglan using Elizabeth Zimmerman’s percentage method. The stitch pattern was from something I saw in Vogue Knitting – a little baby jacket in an issue last winter, perhaps?<\/p>\n

I knit it flat from the bottom up. [I hate knitting in the round.] Here it is, right after I joined the sleeves with the body.<\/p>\n

\"Jack...up<\/a><\/p>\n

In order to continue working flat rather than in the round, I made a split for the neckline and started it when I joined everything together. The neckline, including the slit, is lined with a continuous attached I-cord. Here is a picture of the i-cord in progress.<\/p>\n

\"Jack<\/a><\/p>\n

Here it is with the neckline done, ready for seaming.<\/p>\n

\"Jack<\/a><\/p>\n

I did provisional cast ons at the bottom edges of the body and sleeves and then went back and added an attached I-cord there after everything was seamed so the edge would be continuous. (The rust yarn in the picture above is the provisional cast-on).<\/p>\n

I had it all completed – i-cords around the lower edge and sleeves and everything – way back in April when my parents came to visit. All completed except for some what to fasten the neckline together along the slit.<\/p>\n

I wanted to use a zipper. A zipper with metal teeth. But who would sell a zipper exactly as long as I needed it – 5″? And even if I found one, this yarn is known to shrink lengthwise when the garment is washed unless it is cared for properly. Not everyone is willing to give a little sweater, with so much time put into it, the proper care required. Would it be used once, washed, and then ruined?<\/p>\n

I tried buttons. They were ugly. I could have purchased buttons, but I didn’t like the loops any more than I liked the yarn buttons. Yuck!<\/p>\n

\"Sweater<\/a><\/p>\n

They didn’t stay on right anyway, so I took all of that back off.<\/p>\n

And the little sweater sat in a closet and waited.<\/p>\n

Then this week, the weather turned cooler. It was time to deliver the little sweater so it could be worn by the little boy I made it for.<\/p>\n

I went to Hancock fabrics, and they had a jean zipper – with metal teeth – exactly the length that I needed. And I decided that what happened to the sweater after I gave it to the recipient (as a general rule) was none of my concern (though I will include care instructions).<\/p>\n

And so this afternoon, I sewed on the zipper.<\/p>\n

I must confess, I kind of like how it looks. In fact, it looks almost exactly as I imagined it when I went to buy the yarn.<\/p>\n

Sometimes it just takes the pressure of a deadline to make something come out right, eh?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ah! The story of a little sweater. I started making it, well, way back at the beginning of this year. It was a little pullover for my cousin Heidi’s little boy who is a couple weeks younger than Joey. The yarn was from Knitpicks – Swish Superwash – color: Deep Ocean. The design was essentially […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knitting"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/life.tanapageler.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/life.tanapageler.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/life.tanapageler.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/life.tanapageler.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/life.tanapageler.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/life.tanapageler.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/life.tanapageler.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/life.tanapageler.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/life.tanapageler.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}