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April 27, 2008

From Susan — No Bites, Except Pie

Filed under: Susan's Mitered Cardigan — lv2knit @ 10:12 am

Well, I stood around hoping that something new would bite me in the a**, but nothing did!  So I am back to the old Mitered Cardigan. 

You may recall that I am changing this into a more traditional jacket style, with set in sleeves.  I had originally thought that I would simply shape the garter stitch sleeve from the pattern.  I kept thinking about it and decided to try to miter it somehow while still ending up with a fitted sleeve.

This picture shows the bottom portion of the sleeve:

I did a provisional cast on all the way around.  The top edge will be “unsprung” and the sleeve cap knitted up from there.  The two side edges (sleeve “seam”) will be joined using a 3-needle bind off.  To get the sleeve shaping (wider at underam — narrower at wrist) I used short row shaping.  To finish off the bottom edge, I will add an applied i-cord edge.

The short row shaping acted just like standard sleeve increases on a regular sleeve — though I was going upside down and backwards to get there!

The cap is knitted straight for 1-2 inches — allowing for length adjustment — and then the cap shaping starts.  I used Actual Size Graph paper to plot out the cap shaping.  I did knit the first sleeve cap and it was a disaster — my gauge paper was off.  I will re-measure my gauge, adjust the shaping, and reknit the very top of the cap.  It’s not a lot of knitting.  If the sleeve ends up too short, I can pick up from the bottom and add some garter stitch OR reknit the sleeve cap with more straight knitting before the shaping.  Either way, I have a fix for the sleeve length.  It’s all about gauge baby — that elusive little minx!

On a non-knitting note:

Yesterday a friend of mine took two of us on a surprise excursion.  She told us months ago to “save the day” as a play date — no other explanation given!  We met at 10 am and she drove us to Stillwater, Minnesota — a beautiful little river town that is CUTE, CUTE, CUTE!!  She had signed us up for a pie making class at The Chef’s Gallery Shop with the “pie guy” — John Michael Lerma.  He has won many pie baking contests and appears regularly on the cooking network. 

 

John Michael is absolutely delightful and does he know pies! 

There were 20 of us in the class.  We broke into groups and each made one of the following pies:

As the pies were either baking or chilling, he gave a pie crust clinic, and then we got to taste all six pies!  OMG!!  The Vidalia Onion Pie was the best and is his signature creation.  He will be on Martha Stewart in May to share it!  It was a fantastic day and something so fun and unexpected.

PS to Rudee: I would definitely serve this as a side dish or light brunch entree.  It would go great with a salad and crusty French baguette!

PS2 to Peggy: Uh, maybe ice sour cream (?). 

5 Comments »

  1. About the only thing better than a day of knitting, is baking coconut cream and keylime pies
    with a buddy.

    Did you get to sample them all, you lucky ducky?

    Comment by Lorraine — April 27, 2008 @ 4:37 pm

  2. Vidalia Onion Pie oh MY!… my mouth is watering… thanks

    Comment by cici — April 27, 2008 @ 7:16 pm

  3. I admire your fortitude with the sweater and your ability to ignore the call of the new.

    What a great friend to arrange a day like that for you. The onion pie sounds amazing. How would you eat that, as a side dish or an entree? Obviously, it’s a savory item and not dessert, right? My sister went to University of Georgia and used to talk all the time of making ends meet as a starving grad student by eating Vidalia onion sandwiches. She still loves them.

    Comment by rudee — April 28, 2008 @ 11:35 am

  4. Hmmmmmmmmmm. Vidalia Onion pie a la mode.
    Okay, maybe not.

    Comment by Peggy — April 28, 2008 @ 4:29 pm

  5. I am in awe of your patterns and work, and subscribe to your blog. I wondered if you would be up for a bit of fun. Having searched your blog for felted, I found only an accidental felting. My first attempt at pattern writing is for a knitted and machine felted bag. It’s worked with 3 strands of worsted weight wool on size 13 needles. For a knitter like you it would be done in a flash! There is a drawing for supplies to make such a bag if you make a comment on my blog , as a celebration of one year of blogging. I would be thrilled if you would comment on my blog. The pies sound great, but I can’t do pie any more, it’s good I can still knit.

    Comment by Rebecca Hillick — May 1, 2008 @ 9:49 am

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