I have been working on Ballerina. It is at the “I have to think” stage, which usually is a stalling point. However, I had already done most of my thinking with Sleeve #1 and took copious notes — graphing the entire sleeve on graph paper. It made it so much easier to start on Sleeve #2.
First, you put the side “seam” sts on a holder (why do these pictures look so blue?):
Then you work the raglan sts only:
The waste yarn you see running up the raglan is to mark the activation of the raglan sts — you activate 1 st, then 2, then 1, etc. It is very hard as you are working up the raglan to know if it is a 1 or 2 st row, so I wove a piece of waste yarn around the sts marking 1-2-1-2-1-2- etc. That way no thinking or counting is involved.
The Sleeve: Hanne has you cast on 2 sts at the end of each WS row to build the sleeve. It seemed like a not-so-great method. I did a provisional cast on of all the sleeve sts at once and then I activate the sts as directed. I used this method on the first sleeve and it worked great. I did a 3-needle bind off to join the two sleeve seam edges together and then, in one step, knitted down the side seam (shown on holder above). Sleeve done. Seam done. Sewing none.
I’ll post an updated picture that shows what the sleeve looks like in progress — it is very strange looking. No one would know what it is supposed to be.
