Firstly, I am officially a doctoral candidate for my degree in counselor education! Thanks for all the good wishes yesterday. The oral exam wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be. It felt more like a collaboration than a grilling at times, and I found out within minutes of stepping outside of the room after it was over. Hurrah!
Ok, now for the matter of this itty bitty baby sweater. I love this pattern. I don’t blame it at all. Pull Gaspard is translated from French. This has caused me pause a few times as some things might not be phrased exactly the same way. One of these pauses came from the instructions for the collar. It says “Open the cowl in front of you,” before the instructions to work the collar stitches. I thought about this for awhile, but then went on my merry way, doing what I thought had to be done. I should have examined the finished pictures of the sweater more for guidance.
This is how the collar ended up:
I didn’t see a problem with this until I thought about seaming it to the back of the sweater, and it didn’t seem to make sense.
When the pattern said “open the cowl in front of you,” I did this:
But I should have done this:
Well it’s back on the needles and I’ll be on my way to finishing soon.
I already have one side sectioned with stitch markers to make my mattress stitch easier.
And the lovely kangaroo pocket is complete. I had to add a few rows of length because I made the overall length of the pullover slightly longer.
Back to work!
The sweater is coming along nicely, and congrats on the doctoral program! How exciting!
Congratulations on the exam! you’re tantalisingly close to finishing – Looking forward to seeing the completed sweater in action 🙂
Congrats on the doctoral program. The sweater looks gorgeous and I love the color.
Congrats!
Congratulations on becoming a PHd candidate! Love the baby jumper.
Looks great and I love the colour!! I mess up instructions all the time and they aren’t translated from another language so, you did way better than I would have done! Oh, Congrats on your doctoral program
I don’t see the difference. 🙁 But I LOVE the sweater, especially the poket. 🙂
CONGRATULATIONS on your oral exam! It’ll be great, I’m sure. But I thought you already HAD started your doctoral thesis? (sorry if this is a stupid question. In Germany, we don’t have a lot of programs like yours).
I wish I had started! It’s not possible in my program to officially start the dissertation until I pass the candidacy exams. I can have ideas, do research, etc. to prep for the dissertation, but I can’t propose, do experimentation, etc. I also have to pass a proposal process before I can do the actual dissertation experiment. Lots of hoops to jump through, but it’s one more behind me!
Ahhhh …. Okay. Thank you so much for explaining! 🙂 It is indeed different here … But I think the good thing about your system is that you have people looking after you during the whole process. Here, it depends a lot on the professor grading the dissertation in the end …
If you still have the same topic you wrote about a couple of months before, I’m sure they will like it. It’s so interesting and (as far as I know) also new. Good luck! You’ll get there. 😀
Congrats! Love the sweater progress. The color is awesome and I love the pattern so far!
Many congrats on your doctoral program! I really love the colour of this yarn, it’s coming along nicely.
Congratulations.
Your knitting progress is amazing. I think I would still be working it out!
Congrats! Can’t wait to see the finished sweater 🙂
Congrats, girl! I’m so glad that the oral exam went so well!
Man, the construction of this sweater is really interesting! It’s so fun watching this come together!
so cute!!
LG, Ute – SCHICKinSTRICK
It’s so dang cute! I wish I had babies to knit for, c’mon friends, get to work!
This is going to be gorgeous when it’s all finished!!
Thanks for all of the pattern tips!