Bogging along

Still bogging along, with the Baby Bog Jacket now looking rather like a knitted superhero cape. The interesting cream stripes are from the thumb trick, which many of us will have most likely come across before when knitting a pair of Fetchings. You knit across the stitches with a length of scrap yarn, slip them back to the left-hand needle and knit across them again with the working yarn. When the scrap yarn is removed at the end of the knitting, you’re left with two rows of live stitches. In this case, for grafting together the fronts and sleeves of the jacket.

Reaching this point is a relief as there were times I did wonder what on earth I was doing knitting row upon row of garter stitch. Mindless knitting changed to “hmmm, this is beginning to get a bit tedious” at around ridge 18. By ridge 28 I was speculating that the reason there are relatively few Baby Bogs on Ravelry is that many knitters expired of boredom before they finished the wretched thing. But then hurrah for Sense and Sensibility on DVD on Saturday night, the boys entertaining their sister while I admired bonnets and me knitting a good 30 rows uninterrupted.

Yesterday I reached the wonderful decreasing row and now have only 100 stitches to contend with, plus the interest of the shaping for the armhole. The sleeves are all knitted as part of this garment, but there are directions for adding slipped stitches to mimic a seam and some increasing and decreasing to help with the fit. I think I may actually get this finished and not have KILLED BY GARTER STITCH BOREDOM on my gravestone after all.