Knitting
Over the past few weeks I have been working on a hand knitted tank top for me to wear and a few days ago, I finally finished it. As I was working without a pattern I guessed on how wide it needed to be by measuring my stitches to a t-shirt, which came out to about 60 stitches. A friend kindly gave me some stitch counters so I used those to mark every 10 stitches. This is important later for forming the V-neck and it helps you with dropped stitches. I started knitting the front half first and tried a new stitch (ribbing 2x2) for the edges of the tank top so it wouldn't curl up as stockinette stitch often does. With the help of a youtube video explaining how to make it and a few re tries I got the new stitch under my hands and successfully made the hem. The next challenge was how to transition out of the ribbed stitch into the stockinette stitch, the way you do this is by slip stitching all of the knit stitches and make the purl stitches knit ones. After I ha...
