Tangelled Angel

I’m on the home stretch with Bridie.
Finally, I’m almost done with it, just in time for a bit of warm weather, and I’ll have to confine her to the wardrobe for a few months.
Although seeing as we’ve just had SNOW, in APRIL, maybe I’ll get a little bit of wear out of her.
I started Bridie waaaay back in oh, could it be, yes it was, November 2006 (the shame!), and have put her down and picked her up and put her down…..until Caroline (blogless) from my Knitting group said she wanted to see it finished and on me. Seeing as she has 2 kids and still manages to finish things very regularly and then wear them to knitting group, she puts me with no kids to serious shame.
So I thought that perhaps I should really try and finish her, as I can’t really justify starting anything else until I do finish her.  Not including my many smaller projects of course lol!
And I really want to start something else, and stick with it this time until the end.
In fact I have several somethings that I want to get stuck into (and maybe have already swatched for something….)

So I brought Bridie with me to Clare and worked on her, finished a sleeve and got about a third of the way through the next sleeve while there, as well as work on my honeymoon wrap for a bit of variety (which I haven’t worked on since I got back, hey I’ve been busy with weddingy things!),
and then stuck with doing a few rows here and a few rows there.

I finished the second sleeve on Sunday, and blocked the body and sleeves on Sunday night- I should have just gone ahead and blocked the body in preparation for working the border but didn’t think of it-duh!

The blocking has made the yarn even softer. Did I tell you what I’m using yet?  I probably did way back when I first started.
I’m using Jaegar Luxury Tweed, which is a 2 ply yarn, one of the ply’s is white and the other is a browny/grey, and it looks lovely knit up. Its composition is 65% merino lambswool and 35% alpaca and its very light and quite soft, softer even with blocking.
I got a pack of this yarn in the knitting and stitching show in Birmingham when we went over in 2006, wow, is it that long ago?
Anyway, last night I started on the band, the instructions have you pin and sew the band in place as you knit, which is actually a great idea as you know exactly where you are going with it.
Thing is, I hit a snag. Not a huge one, but it was late, and I really wanted to get the left side done before I went to bed, and I eventually had to abandon it.

You see, the left side curves to the left just about the bust area, and the band follows this in its shaping. Whatever way I read the shaping, it just didnt seem right, but I went ahead and did it anyway and I was right–>  it turned to the right instead of the left (as you wear it)

As I said it was late, and I was tired, and I just couldn’t work it out. actually my brain had declared it had had enough and wanted to shut down for a few hours.  If I was a robot I would have been stuck on the couch until morning in the off position. Sorry, on another planet there lol!
I decided to put it aside until this evening and have another look at it.

As you do, of course, I couldnt stop thinking about it after it went to its little bed in my knitting bag, and the only thing I could think of is that I started the shaping on the wrong side, as in the right side,not the wrong side.

Have I lost you yet ;-)?

I mean maybe I should have started the shaping on the WS, but I started it on the RS.
I need to go and read the pattern again, havent picked it up since I came home, just launched in here.
So, I’ll go and do that, and hopefully I’ll have the finished object ready in time to wear it to knitting on Tuesday next!
Caroline will be so proud tee hee.