{"id":194,"date":"2004-02-23T21:36:02","date_gmt":"2004-02-23T21:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/wordpress\/?p=194"},"modified":"2004-02-23T21:36:02","modified_gmt":"2004-02-23T21:36:02","slug":"its-not-easy-being-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/?p=194","title":{"rendered":"It’s not easy being green"},"content":{"rendered":"

blt\/bpt<\/a> had been finished and blocked for over a week, but it was waiting for a zipper. The green was rather difficult to match, as you can see:
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\nAfter three orders from zipperstop<\/a>, I decided just to go with the least offensive one. I had never before installed a zipper into a sweater, so it was a bit of a challenge. First I had to shorten the zipper. A piece of advice–if you need to shorten a molded tooth zipper, fingernail clippers are your friends. It’s much easier to remove the teeth if you clip off one half of it with fingernail clippers then pull the remainder off with pliers. Anyway, I sewed the zipper in with the machine but didn’t do a great job. Actually, I didn’t do such a great job on the sweater overall, but it’s comfy and is a good throw-on sweater. It turned out a bit on the large side (I think that is the result of overzealous blocking), but once I wash it, I can probably block it a tad smaller.
\nI decided to go with a regular 1×1 rib collar rather than the hood. Thanks to everyone’s suggestions on that. I picked up with smaller needles (about 5 out of every 6 stitches) on the right side then began the rib on the wrong side, decreasing every once in a while (usually right above a cable) to tighten it up a little bit. I continued the rib on smaller needles for about an inch then switched to regular needles. Oh, to match the front of the jacket, I had two knit stitches on either side of the front, and I slipped the first stitch of each row.
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