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<\/a><\/p>\nSee that little dotted pink line? That<\/strong> ladies and gentlemen is a short row pocket – worked at the same time as the garment.\u00a0 It gives a completely seamless pocket top and invisible joins and is so cute.\u00a0 I didn’t think of this myself, I got the inspiration from Franklin Habit and his love of vintage pattern (you can read his post here if you like<\/a>).<\/p>\n Another example of short row shaping is done in the neck of this little cardigan to let it lie properly on the back of baby’s neck.<\/p>\n Having said that the Crochet Shaping course is going to be a blast, I’m trying out several new ideas – I’ve even had my nails done in preparation! k- and I’m really looking forward to it.<\/p>\n Most of this week, and last week has been taken up with final minute non-productive flapping, but I did get to the end of the charts on the Honeymeade shawl (you have no<\/em> idea how happy I was to complete that!) and I’ve done the first 5 rows of a slip stitch crochet rectangular shawl test about 20,000 times.\u00a0 More fool me for thinking it would be easy.\u00a0 More on that process next week I think!<\/p>\n Finally in other news, the doctors are now weaning me off the drugs to see what happens.\u00a0 Apparently what happens is that when I get to 1mg my hands object, so I’ve gone back up to 2mg till Saturday and will drop back to 1mg next week when it’s not so vitally important that I can use my hands.\u00a0 My next appointment is 22nd April so we’ll see what happens then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Easter holidays gave me a little bit of time to dash to the family seat ‘up north’ and visit the relatives. My younger Sister is fabulous, glamorous and wonderful.\u00a0 All my life she has been very focused on what’s ‘in’ … Continue reading <\/a>However the most concerning thing about this cardigan is not the fact that I have made a baby garment (those of you who know me may be surprised that I didn’t in fact spontaneously combust when presented with this little task) but that I (who never, ever, ever<\/strong> makes any baby blanket present in baby blue or baby pink). had two balls of baby pastels in my stash.\u00a0 What I want to know is “why<\/strong> do I have a 100g ball of baby blue acrylic, and 100g grams of baby pink acrylic in my stash?!”<\/em>\u00a0 It would appear that the stash is prone to growing, with stuff you don’t want, if you don’t keep a careful eye on it.<\/p>\n