Pea Pod

I made the PeaPod sweater for baby Lydia. I think it turned out well, considering it was my first project requiring lacework from a chart. The pattern was written poorly and I made a noob mistake. I did not repeat the middle lace chart X times and knitting the end chart too soon. So I ripped back ~ 20 st x 10 row section of lace to repair it! I am so happy to have received a copy of this pattern and plan on making more!

If you have seen this pattern before, you may notice that the buttons are on the "wrong" side. That's what happens when left handed knitters follow a right handed pattern. Everything I make is mirror imaged, unless it is symetrical. But that's ok. Babies don't care where buttons are. I'm a member of a left-handed group on Rav. There was a whole debate on how left handers should knit from charts. If I read the chart like a right hander, I will get an identical, but mirrored, product. But some people have figured out you can knit the chart from left to right but swap K2tog for SSK and get the exact product (or something like that). I haven't tried it, but it should avoid knitting the state of Texas backwards, which happened to one of the group members, haha.

I am also a combination, continental knitter - but only some of the time. Meaning, I purl "wrong" (combination -this causes twisted stitches which I compensate for by knitting through the back loop) and hold my yarn in my right hand (continental). It's a very fast way to knit/purl! However, I didn't want to risk combination knitting while doing lace, so I learned how to correctly purl for the lacework and knitted English style. But switched back to combination/continental for the stockinette part! According to Rav lingo (link only available to Rav members), this makes me bistitchual.