Actual progress on a project

It's been a while since you saw any, hasn't it?

A couple of weeks ago, I started the "Girl Tank" (I find the name amusing) from Classic Elite's Make it Modern. I got a bag of Elann.com Camila super cheap (discontinued color) and it's a good match for the project - 50% cotton and 50% linen makes it a good summer knitting yarn. It's a little stiff at first, but it softens up nicely when it is washed. The color I got - opal grey - is pretty meh, but it doesn't really bother me and I guess I could always dye it.

Here we are so far:


I cast on in the round instead of knitting flat - I couldn't take that the vertical garter stitch "stripes" were made on wrong side rows; I had trouble seeing them coming and I wasn't about to count every stitch. No seaming was a bonus.

I did what I thought was a pretty clever trick for creating the placket: on the 5 stitches that were to be the placket, I knit into the stitch below and then the stitch on the needle (5 sts became 10). Then I separated the stitches: the ones made from knitting below went on a separate needle for the front (buttonhole) band and the stitches made from knitting into the ones on the needle went on a needle to be knit with the other front as the button band. No attaching the bands later.

A few inches of top left and the some sleeves. But I've totally lost steam since getting new yarn. I'd rather be knitting socks.

Speaking of which - I frogged the toe-up Nutkins. The yarn is just too stretchy for this one - the yo's and ssk's we causing stitches to pull away from eachother and ruining the effect. Time to find another pattern, I guess. It will still be toe-up, though.