Here’s Pipes. I haven’t shown you many pictures of this project because… well… it’s dark blue stockinette, isn’t it? But I have been working on it.
It’s time to make sleeve decisions.
I am making this sweater for #2 daughter, and am waiting for her instructions on the sleeves. So far, I’ve been told to make the sleeves “long. Grotesquely long. Gorilla long,” but I was hoping for actual numbers. Inches, maybe. And of course it is necessary to decide very soon whether to narrow them down with ribbing, to leave them loose and finish with a border, or whether in fact I should pull them out and narrow them more from the start.
I am applying for a job today. It has been many years since I have done this, since I have been in my current job for about a decade and a half. But, as I always tell my kids when they agonize over applying for things, they won’t necessarily offer me the job and I won’t necessarily accept it if they do, so it is no big deal.
I’ll keep you posted.
I’m crossin’ my fingers and prayin’ and stuff!
What chantaboune said….
What kind of job?
I vote for ribbing on the sleeves. And I think they should come to her knuckles.
RYC: thank you. I think you know me well enough to interpret my dreams. I’m an open book. Your perception of trust and control issues is apt.
Good luck on te job. I don’t know if that means getting it or not, but good luck.
Applying for a job? Do tell more! Good luck with it!
gorilla long?
Yes, what kind of job?
I should take my own advice and start taking a multivitamin. I’m reading the book and getting the info, but there’s a time lag between getting the info and getting to the store and buying what I need. Being short on cash is making me have to pick and choose between what to fix first, too.
I meant to say earlier that I like Pipes a lot.
For really long sleeves, they usually taper. If you leave them full like that with ribbed cuffs, the cuffs are going to wind up at the narrowest point of her arm, the wrist, which may negate the length of the sleeves.
If you just finish them with a garter stitch or seed stitch border, they’re going to look a bit like medieval sleeves and drag in everything. Having sleeves that were full at the wrist proved that you were wealthy. It showed you could afford the extra material, and that you didn’t have to work (that you had servants) because sleeves like that would soon be destroyed ny cleaning, washing, everyday wear, etc.
I’ll measure my arms for the sleeves!
Though down to the knuckles seems about right.
Also, I don’t have a Southern accent with which I might seduce some unsuspecting gas man.