tara's stitch*illo project 2017

 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...

Do you know that feeling? That awful feeling when you realize, you are not as on track as you thought you were? That's where I was last Wednesday morning. I already knew by the "C" that the flower section was too long and I would probably have to pick it off and just use the title. The spine of the book is only 8.25" long and at the "C' the spine already measured in at 7 inches. No way was I going to be able to squeeze the S-T-I-T into an inch and a quarter, never mind the bee motif at the top of the design.  But I persisted... And then, on Wednesday morning, with a strong cup of coffee under my fingers, and the "S" knitted snugger,  I realized that the quality of the knitting was not acceptable. It was far to loose and no matter how well I blocked it, I was never going to get the piece to look as good as it would if had I knitted all of it better. I took a break and ran the last minute Thanksgiving Day errands in hopes that I wasn...