u/Carthalicious

Well damn, lost yarn chicken on a sweater project and had to reorder some yarn... Let this be a lesson to me: do always order more than you think you'll need. You did the math, and you think you'll know how much you need? Order a third more. Not 10% more, make it at least 30% more, or hell even 50%. Same shop, same brand, same colourway, 4 months apart. I mean, frankly it's not even the same colour.

Luckily I left enough of the old batch to fade the new colour in, but this was not planned.

Ironically the new batch matches my main yarn much better than the old so I'm now losing the slight marled effect I had before...

Edit: this is lana gatto harmony in 19004 in case anyone is interested

I'm knitting the Atul cardigan by Audrey Borrego in a cotton linen mix. I noticed that the edges (which are the armhole sides) are significantly longer than the middle of the piece.

These are the instructions:

You will work the main texture with a stockinette edge stitch on the armhole sides.

row 1 (RS) : k1, texture to 1 st before end, k1

row 2 (WS) : p1, texture to 1 st before end, p1

Later on I'll be picking up stitches from this edge for the sleeve ribbing.

I understood this to mean that these k1 or p1 stitches are supposed to be the very first and last stitch of the work. So I finish row 1 with a knit, turn the piece and immediately p1 into the stitch I just knitted. Is this wrong?

Normally, when knitting flat, I'd cast on an additional stitch on each side and then always slip that first stitch to get a neat edge, but I've since read that I'm not supposed to do that, if I'm going to be picking up stitches from that edge, so I didn't do that here. I'm a bit confused on what happened here and why the edges are that much longer.

Any help greatly appreciated!