Knitting the Almanac - January Sweater Body
A Body Without Armholes So having gleaned all the information necessary from my swatch cap, I forged boldly ahead into the body. I decided that 200 stitches around would be right for the size I wanted to make, so it was dead simple - no extra purl stitches to deploy anywhere. The body knit up ridiculously quickly, due in no small part to the fact that there is no waist shaping, no armhole shaping, in fact no anything shaping until you reach to tops of the shoulders. This allowed me to cheerfully chug along at it through airports and plane rides as Mr. Mouse and I travelled to California for his company's annual meeting. In fact, I was working the...