Yay, Stephanie! You give hope to the fearful knitters out there, the shrinking, nervous ones who cannot deviate from pattern, as written. An inspiration. And Happy Jellybean Day!

Open mocking of the Knitting Gods? Brave. Foolish, but brave.

;-)

What do you mean, no swatch? That looks like a big blue multi-dimensional swatch to me, of the same type as Snowdrop. Brilliant bit of freestyle extreme swatching - congrats!

Don't worry -- I have it on excellent authority that yarn doesn't hear very well. If it did, I would have been strangled in my sleep long ago. :)

(Okay. The image of yarn snaking across the room after me just freaked me out. Please disregard.)

Swatches? We don't need no steenking swatches!

Beeewtifull!

The two words I couldn't wait to type as I read were "Yay, Stephanie!" And then those were the first two words already there, from Nathania. Yes. Beautiful work. As always. Bien fait.

I hate buttonholes on cardigans. The combination of buttons and buttonholes always causes them to sag. Sew a button on to the buttonhole band anywhere you want a button and then sew snaps on the underside.

Ends up looking a lot neater.

When I am desperately going to need buttonholes (rarely - I don't button sweaters usually) I try to design it so that my buttonhole band is a cable and the buttons are froggy things that will go through the cable twist.

One neat buttonhole in ribbing is done by putting a k2tog, yo in the middle of the band. You want the yo to replace a purl stitch. Then on the next row, you knit into the yo hole. You can do this on a third row as well if you need a bigger hole. This make a buttonhole that is virtually invisible when the sweater isn't buttoned. This is a vertical buttonhole, not a horizontal one.

Must "me, too" what Charlotte said.
That's the only kind of buttonhole I like.

Of course you had enough yarn.
I have that looking over the shoulder and seeing ruin ahead disorder as well.
It's one of the reasons I can make such clever scrap sweaters.
I'm not clever enough to collect good things for such projects.
I'm just paranoid.
Mwah!

Me too on the buttonhole...ONLY...this is a trick some woman in the busdepot showed me years ago...instead of yo, bring yarn forward as if to purl, then k2tog. this brings the yarn over the needle like a yarn over, but much shorter strand. It makes a much tighter, sturdier buttonhole, and also smaller, which nice in worsted weight.
Barb

while I am impressed and amused by your cavalier thumbing of your nose at the Yarn Gods, I fear for you eventual smoting.

Fabulous!

I think what may happen is something far worse than anyone has suggested...

You may just wake up one morning and completely forget how to turn a heel, and not be able to find books to show you how, and your internet will be out, so no online research...and your phone won't work, so no calling knitting friends. Then the car will break down and 4 feet of snow will fall, preventing you from going anywhere...

Ok, that was a horrifying thought.

Smoke signals, you say?

No matches.

Oy oy oy, I am befuddled. "Bring yarn forward as if to purl, K2tog".
How's that different fron "yo"?
Isn't that how one does a yarnover in front of a knit stitch?
Not me like being mystified.

Sheesh! Re-read my entry, and no wonder you don't know what I meant. I had to get out my needles and take a good look at what I was doing to see what the difference is so I could describe it. Makes me realize how a picture is worth a thousand words.
Anyway, the difference is, in yo you bring the yarn to the front, then over the needle then knit. So the yarn is already in the back when you perform the knit stitch.
With this you bring the yarn to the front, put the needle into the stitch to knit, now knit, so the yarn goes over the needle after the right needle is already in the stitches. So the length of the yarn that is going over the needle is shorter.
I know it doesn't seem like it when you look at the instructions, but it is different, and if you do both on sample, you can see it.
(Actually I wondered if Abby's curse had got to me, and I had forgotten how to yo properly. But googling gave me "Bring yarn to front and over top of right needle. Knit the next stitch." What a relief!)
Barb

Hey, fortune favors the bold, and so do the knitting god(esse)s.

Harlot!! Two days ago you are thumbing your nose at the gods -- and now we don't hear from you! should we send out a search party -- have you been smoted, sacrificed - what?

olly-olly-oxenfree!

Let's hope it's the snowdrop baby!

uioeydavaup qerauh.

Can you explain these instructions in a lacy shawl pattern:

(k1, yo, k1) in one stitch.

I can't figure out how to do that "in one stitch." Thanks!