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Knitting Finished

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 The knitting is finished. And I can't tell if I skipped a row on the second "T" or just pulled the stitches too tight for them to come back out in the blocking. At this point though, I'm going to live with it. The next step is to add the Uppercase Magazine symbol where it belongs. This was way too small to knit into the pattern so I decided to embroider it. The black is a satin stitch which went smoothly. The Uppercase U with arrow - not so smoothly. I lost count after pulling it out after 5 tries. You wouldn't believe how hard it is to stitch a straight line and not get a "v" at the bottom of your "u". I also cheated a little with the steeking. Since the edges are going to be hidden under the boards they don't have to look good. I'm terrified of this unraveling so I put a good bit of PVA right where I was going to cut it. It worked! Then I went to make the case and found that the knitting is not wide enough. I need 5cm to reac