Purple Project - Pt 3

It's actually a real thing, that I can wear! Not nearly finished though...

There are a number of things I wish I'd done differently.

1) I wish I'd put that 2x2 ribbing all the way round the back. It does the job, ish, but it would look and fit better if I'd carried it all the way round the back.

Is there a solution? Maybe. I might add a bit of a fake belt thing - like the kind of thing you see on the back of rain macs sometimes - to hide counteract the bagginess.

2) (which is associated with the above issue and solution) I have more bottom than is strictly necessary, and I wish I'd added a few (ok, a lot) extra stitches by way of shaping the lower half and giving my rear end a bit of 'breathing' room. The result of not doing this means that below the ribbing the front edges are swept open and back. It's not a disaster, but it isn't brilliant either (as previously suspected, this will be a wear at home only garment)

3) I wish very heartily that I'd planned it properly!

I've added a button placket though you can't see it because of that stockinette curl, but it's coming out; whatever else happens on this project I've learned something very useful...

4) I wish I'd known that giving the front opening edges a slip stitch would make picking up for the button placket harder. I thought it would make it easier, but what actually happens is you don't get nearly enough stitches and it all puckers up. There has been much frogging.

Is there a solution? Yes. Pick up on the row inside the slipped stitch.

Now I need a really long circular, so I can pick up all the way round. And to do a few calculations  - I'm getting bored of frogging - to maybe add a kind of extra deep edge/gore to the front lower halves, in an attempt to fill  up some of the yawning gap that appears when I put it on.

It's going to be a bit of hotch potch.

On the plus side - it does generally fit. On the other, I am clearly well into plus size territory, at least in the bottom department. And no, I won't be modeling it for this blog at any point whatsoever. In fact, I may never go out again. I'm just going to stay indoors and knit. (Sadly, that's rather closer to the actual truth than I was going to admit. Sigh.)