The Chronicles of Emma - Chapter 2

The saga continues, and I'll see if I can accurately chronicle here what has happened since I started dear Emma.

First of all, it's been a bit crazy. Tuesday night we stayed at the Ronald McDonald House near the hospital DS is treated at in preparation for an early, early morning on Wednesday. Why so early? Because Thumbelina, The World's Smallest Horse, came to visit, and we were invited to attend the event which was aired on Fox & Friends. Both DD and DS are in the video clip. They were SO excited to be on TV!

As usual I toted along my knitting bag on this little side trip. I managed to get several inches done on Emma since I started her, and as I work through the pattern, I am finding it slightly easier to figure out, but I guess I won't know if I made the right decisions about when to start and stop increases until I am finished.

I managed to get through the Short Row section, and then I started the increases for the front panels. Part-way through the front panels, I decided it was time to start the shaping for the waist. This was confusing, because given the example in the pattern, it seemed that I should wait to start this shaping until I had about 4" knit. If I had done that, however, I would have ended up with too many inches in the under-arm section. So, I started the shaping after about 2" or so. The shaping goes on for about 4" total.

During the shaping, you don't do any front-panel increases. Now I am back to working on those, and hopefully by the time I get through all 25 of them, I will have the proper measurements. I need to check in with Angelia to see if what I'm doing is remotely similar to what she did, because hers looks beautiful!

All right ... off to nurse this little cold I started out with Tuesday. I spent most of the day yesterday napping off and on. Hopefully, I'll be able to undo the damage that occurred around here yesterday while I was sleeping.