I'm thinking that I'm not sewing or blogging about sewing enough to warrant keeping my separate little sewing blog, sew blue. I would like to keep posting about my projects and progress, though. Would you all still visit if I posted a weekly update on my sewing in my knitting blog?? Pretty please?

Hey Carolyn, Morgan, MKaye, AlisonG, Leigh, Anita, and Kim, did ya start yesterday? Okay, I know that Anita started already - any pics to share with us?

I started! Following Carolyn's suggestion to give that Becky fave, the tubular cast on, a try, I sat down during the boys' naptime in front of my little portable tv (vintage 1978!), turned on the French Open, opened up the Wiseman book (have you bought this book yet?) and went to it.

Check out those knobs on the tv - yes, folks that's a UHF dial! Uh, back to the knitting. So it took like forever, at least a set of the Agassi match (that's baseline tennis, people). But finally... voila, tubular cast on. Just like the picture too.

Oh yeah and then I went to knitting group and hung out with Kerstin and Sandy. And all the Smooch gals were there too, including our leader at the moment (wait, this wasn't a race, was it?) Johanna, who has completed the back (the top is on a stitch holder) and is just starting the eyelets around the neck on the front. Looks like we could have a finished Smooch next weekend! My Smooch is not so far along, only up to the armholes on the back, but I'm liking it a lot. I'm afraid to go too fast, since that will be the end of my all seasons cotton kick. Unless someone out there can give me permission to make this.

So, how are your knitalongs coming along?

I made some good progress yesterday on the wannabe sweater. I'm almost up to the point where the stripes start. I've lengthened the sweater a little bit and am also doing a larger size, since I'm substituting regular old mercerized cotton for the strechy lycra cotton called for in the pattern. I was worried that at my regular size, instead of forming itself to my body like the lycra would, it would just look too small. I did add a couple of increases and decreases to make some very subtle waist shaping. It's not lycra, but I can try!

Although I got quite a bit done, I spent every second of it thinking about other projects. I'm really feeling at sea here about what I should work on. This sweater is just not inspiring me. I should be starting the boys' summer sweaters, but as I mentioned yesterday I can't get motivated for them either (they're at an even smaller gauge than the cotton glace for the wannabe sweater!). I could make the blanket coat I've been dreaming about, but that requires 22 balls of all seasons cotton (or more likely, 11 balls of Cotton Ease). Or I could try to make something of the lovely Pingouin yarn that Kerstin brought me, but what? And I should be sewing anyway, as I've got old projects there waiting to be finished. I fear I'm in some sort of knitting funk. All those tanks have either spoiled or exhausted me. Blah.

Stripes!

I'm knitting right through this knitty malaise thing. The wannabe sweater isn't thrilling to knit, but I do like it. I'm having a similar experience knitting it that I did with the purple tank I finished earlier in the month. While knitting, I'm thinking, 'man this thing is purple, this is not going to look good, what a bad idea.' And then I hold it up and anxiously peek in the mirror and I love it! Start knitting again, and all doubts return. I have to keep getting up and going to the mirror to convince myself yet again that it does look good. I need that Big Red chewing gum guy in my bathroom to tell me, 'it looks goooood on 'ya.'

the project: smooch

the problem: the decrease lines under the lace v's

those to blame: fellow smooch-alonger Anne, for pointing out that they can be improved, and Becky, 'cause I'm a Becky-wannabe dont'cha know and if she didn't like it, she would redo it

the details: Here are the v's done as written and here are some I tried out yesterday with different decreases. The second looks exactly like the picture in the book. Anne, is this how you did yours? I like them both. I think I prefer the look of the lace part in the catalog picture with less visible decreases (why would they tell us to do it differently?). I did notice, however, that several designs in Rowan's Calmer book have the same lace pattern and all those photos have the visible decrease lines under the yarnovers.

the questions: Do I stew or redo?

Um, sort of. It turns out that the color I'm using for Smooch has been discontinued and my LYS can't get anymore (wish I'd known that two weeks ago when I ordered the yarn there). I may not have any other choice but to rip it out and start again with other yarn. Well, I'll get to try doing the lace part differently.

Unless of course someone out there has three skeins of All Seasons Cotton in color #187. I'm not doing any stripes or anything on this one. If I can't find more yarn to match what I've already knit, I'll be ripping it out this weekend. I have a few ideas what I could do with the skeins I have.....

I am officially not thinking about Smooch today. I thought through about 15 different possibilities yesterday and am going to let it sit. Except there is that sale still going on at my LYS.....

But I can't think about that now, because I am too excited about my Becky sweater. I finished the back!

I'm really liking the sweater now. I'm starting to remember how much I enjoyed knitting with a finer yarn. I love those neat little rows of stitches. This weekend I want to start a sleeve. I like doing the sleeves inbetween the big front and back pieces, so it's not so depressing when you've got the whole body done and want to start sewing and wearing the thing and you've still got two sleeves to knit!

No real post today, since I'm off to the Granite State Knit-In for the day with some fellow knitsmithers. I'll leave you with this great picture of B, enjoying some fun in the fountain on his first day post-cast!

My little sewing blog was lonely all on its own. And since it was displaced from the sidebar by the knit-alongs, I'm moving it back to the blue blog as a weekly update.

Current projects:

dressy
My first big sewing project and it's still awaiting armhole facings and a hem. I'm having trouble working up the courage to try the small curvy seams on the armhole facings. And I don't know how I'll get the hem right all by myself.

groovy
Why did I stop working on this? Ahh, the waistband. But now that I've conquered that fear/technique, I should be able to get these sewn up and hemmed pretty quick.

kwikies
Pants and more pants for the boys. I made one pair using the Kwik-Sew pattern and a couple of Kristi's fast pants. I've got more fabric and old t-shirts ready to be transformed into more pants and shorts for summer fun.

miscellany
I spent most of my sewing time in the last week and a half working on all the curtains that needed to be rehemmed for our new place. After running out of white thread and then (Carolyn, you'll like this!) sewing the pocket for the curtain rod closed on several panels, I finally managed to get them all done for the bedrooms. The kitchen and living room are still naked.

And remember this fabulous fabric that Kerrie sent me a while back? Well, I'm trying to turn it into something fun and summery. If I can't get it to work, I should still be able to turn it into a little shoulder bag.

Stop by next week for the chance to see:

- a finished pair of groovy pjs
- some fast shorts, and
- a fabulous little top (or the world's sexiest purse!)

Stopped by Knitsmiths yesterday and got to see Johanna's finished Smooch. She looks great! Johanna managed to shorten the neck a bit so that it isn't too plunging. I think many of us will be asking her for the details on that so we can do the same. Still, I think there must be something about this top that gets you in the mood to make sexy poses. And have you seen Jen's? You MUST check it out! I've ordered new yarn for mine and will restart it as soon as it arrives.

I spent Saturday at the Granite State Knit in and in addition to learning a few things here and there, I got a lot of knitting done. In fact, I finished a whole sleeve of the Becky sweater!

First off today I thought I'd share a bit of what I saw and learned at the Granite State Knit-In on Saturday. I only took one picture (come on, you've seen ladies knit before!), which was from the Show and Tell portion of the afternoon. Several women came up and showed their fabulous lace and intarsia sweaters. Very impressive. But I got such a kick out of these women who all knitted the same hat and came up as a huge group that I had to take a picture. Funny!

Nancy Thomas, from Lion Brand, was the speaker. I wish I'd thought to tell her about how much we knitbloggers and Knitty readers are enjoying the Cotton Ease (and ask for a few more neutral, sophisticated colors, perhaps). She brought many examples of exquisite knitting from her trips to Bolivia and Peru and talked about her experiences in the professional knitting world. She also brought some free patterns for people to take home and I must say I am impressed at how Lion Brand is really trying to offer hip and young patterns and yarns. It's not just your grandma's yarn anymore!

I took a couple of brief classes and saw a demonstration of some cable techniques, like cabling without a needle (not so scary if you don't have too many stitches in the cable). In another class, I learned a new decrease (new to me, at least), which is the exact complement to a K2tog decrease. You have to try it, if you're looking for matching decreases for raglan shaping or something like that! What you do is slip the first stitch knitwise and the next purlwise. Then knit the two together, by inserting the left needle into the stitches from the right. I know, it seems weird, but here's the result (new decrease on the left and K2tog on the right). Cool, huh?

And at the very end of the day, I won some yarn in the big raffle: 10 balls of Classic Elite's Spotlight cotton in a sort of pale blue/green/gray color. It's very soft! I couldn't help pulling out one ball so I can start swatching. Like they always say - if life gives you yarn, make a sweater!

Finally, speaking of making sweaters, people are still joining the knitalongs. I'm really excited that so many of us are getting together to knit and share our progress. Everyone is still welcome, so if you're interested, just let me know. And speaking of Knitty, until I was perusing the new issue (and old archives) yesterday, I had totally forgotten that the cover pattern two issues ago is a sweater very similar to the Becky sweater. If there is anyone out there who wanted to join the wannabe knitalong but had trouble finding the old Phildar pattern, check out Marc. And be sure to check out the new Knitty anyway. 'Cause Knitty rules!

Normally, I'm not a good swatcher. However, since I'm still a little restless with what I'm presently knitting, I actually sat down and spent some time yesterday swatching. Here's a bad picture of a swatch of the Classic Elite cotton yarn I won at the Knit-In over the weekend. I'm hoping I can stretch the ten balls into a little sweater with three-quarter length sleeves. After knitting up the swatch and thinking about possible patterns, I started asking myself whether I should really start knitting yet another top for myself this summer. Aren't there some other people I should be knitting for, that I've planned to knit for?! So I ambitiously started another swatch, this time of the baby wool called for in some summer sweaters I'd planned to make for the boys. Not sure that I'm 100% ready to work at this gauge again, but if I wait too long, the boys will grow too big for the size I'd planned and then I won't have enough yarn. Hmmmm....

I'm thinking of rededicating the rest of the summer (except for the planned knitalongs, of course) to baby knitting. The boys' summer sweaters first, then the minimono set which still has to be finished, another baby sweater for another baby on the way in the family, and then there's the second bug sweater and giranimals jacket that I'd love to finish up.

Oh, I finished the second sleeve of the Becky sweater too. A girl can't swatch all day, you know!

Spent most of my free time yesterday making some little buttons for the current knit-alongs. Becky did such a good job on the Tank Girl button, I was a little intimidated to give it a try. But we can't have Becky making the Becky-wannabe button, now can we?!

In actual knitting news, I've cast on for the front of the wannabe sweater. Looks just like the cast on for the back (by George, I think she's got it!), so no new pictures today. Maybe when I separate for the neck!

Thought about my knitting all day long, but didn't really get around to doing much of it. I ran out at lunchtime to another LYS that was having a sale and again I was so good that it's frightening. I bought a mere one ball of all seasons cotton.

(Break for applause. Thank you. Thank you.)

I decided to use some of my all seasons stash (leftovers from my first tank girl top, in fact) to make the next little baby sweater I've got planned, but wasn't absolutely sure that I have enough, so I gave myself permission to buy one ball to be sure. I'll be doing this sweater, but in all seasons cotton instead of the cotton glace called for. I've been wanting to make both of the sweaters in the picture for my boys for some time, but haven't gotten around to it yet. Not sure whether doing one now will make me more or less likely to make them for the boys. We'll see. Anyhoo, I'll be totally redoing the numbers, since the gauge will be much larger (yeah!) and the size much smaller (double yeah!). I'm also planning to add a small button band in the back, so it's better suited for a baby. Wouldn't want to make things too easy on myself! I'm excited about trying to rework this pattern and am hoping it will put an end to my recent knitting-related discontent. Who wouldn't be cheered up by candy cane stripes?

My yarn for Smooch has arrived! I got all seasons cotton in one of the beautiful new melange colors, cookie. It's a really lovely and sophisticated looking sort of taupey color. The other melage colors are also gorgeous and I was so tempted to get the peachy color, but I decided that tank girl can be subtly sexy this time. The yarn came pretty fast, but now I feel like I've fallen behind having waited a couple of weeks to decide to rip and get the new yarn. So I'm anxious to be able to start again.

But I'm soooo close to finishing the wannabe sweater that I'm not sure I can put it down to start Smooch. I'll be starting the neck any minute now and then there's only the seaming left to do. This thing wants to be done! I feel like wearing the sleeves already, even as I finish knitting the front!

And then there's Becky's cool swatch project, which I'm really excited about. Can't quite say why, since it's making swatches, something I'm usually loath to do. But I think since these swatches are finished products and not preliminary exercises to knitting a sweater or something, I'm feeling differently about them. I've already pulled out several of my all seasons cotton leftovers and have a few planned. Be sure to check it out and then join in on the swatchy fun!

Now to decide which project gets my attention this weekend. Decisions, decisions.

Not too much to report this week. Most of the sewing I've been doing recently is seaming on my wannabe sweater. I'm really excited about finishing it and so have put most of my machine sewing on hold for a bit. Another knitting project has also taken up a lot of my sewing time - the boys' knitted lederhosen from last year. The straps kept stretching, so I am finally getting around to sewing in some grosgrain ribbon to stabilize them. I've never done this before and am very thankful to fellow knitbloggers, Melissa and Claudia for sharing their tips!

Although my excitement about summer shorts and tops has waned with the return of the cold, wet weather here, I did make a start on converting an old t-shirt into a pair of shorts for the boys, but they didn't come out as well as the first pair of fast pants did and I've got to fiddle around with them a bit more. I am also working on trying to salvage the material from this funky old shirt of mine so I can turn it into some way cool shorts for the boys.

Check back next week for:

- the return of good weather, and
- finished fast shorts, lederhosen and perhaps banana bottoms

or

- the continuation of cold weather, and
- finished groovy (and warm) cotton pjs

My wannabe sweater is done! And I love it. Thanks so much to Carolyn for cooking up the knit-along idea and, of course, Becky for being the inspiration. I really pushed myself to improve my skills on this sweater (what a wannabe!). I finally figured out the tubular cast on and, let me tell you, there's no going back! I was very careful about watching my tension so I could produce those nice straight lines of stitches. And I really like the new little decreases I learned and used on the sleeves. Although I substituted a very different yarn, I think the cotton glace turned out quite well. I like the fit and feel of it and I certainly enjoyed working with it. I'm so happy that this old stash-dweller came to such a good end. Official verdict from my husband, "wow, you're really improving." Thanks hun (and thanks again Becky)!

And now the obligatory dancing photo.

I love that episode from Seinfeld where the woman in the next bathroom stall won't give Elaine a single square of toilet paper. You can't spare a square?! Come on, fellow knitters, you can spare a square for Becky's super cool swatch project. Here are some of mine in the works.

I'm using all seasons cotton leftovers from my summer tanks and since I'm a big dummy and can't figure out how many stitches I'd need to get 6x6 in. with a fancy stitch pattern, I'm just doing mine kinda plain. Every blanket needs some plain patches to set off the others though, right? So there's another reason to make squares: just think of how your swatches will really "pop" next to mine!

Can we just pause for a moment to look at that list of knitters who have joined the Smooch-along! Wow!

Let's take a minute to check in on everyone's progress. Those in pink have started (remember, there's no set time here, just let me know if you want to join in on the fun and jump in whenever you're ready) and those in red are done (links are to finished pictures, where available)!

Kerstin
alison
Johanna
Morgan
Becky
Maggi
Nora
Jen
Gina
Linda
Brenda
Anne
Beverly
Carissa
Kimmer
MKaye
Sandy
Anna
Inga
Wendy
Jessica

Yes, I'm pink again. Woo hoo! I started over with the new yarn and have made it through the lace part on the back.

I fiddled with a lot of different decreases to get it to look the way I had imagined it in my head and am pleased with the result. I used K2tog after the yarnovers, K2tog tbl before the yarnovers, and for the double decrease I slipped the first two stitches together knitwise, knit the next and passed the two slipped stitches over the last one. I'm so glad that I decided to start over again and went ahead and splurged to buy the new yarn. It really doesn't do to keep something that you know you'll be disappointed with.

Now a call to all you Smoochers out there who are a ways into the project. I know many people are getting annoyed with the pattern. I posted a clarification for the first rows of the picot edging a while back. Do you all have any further tips to clarify things that might be tricky or confusing like the slip stitch edging? Any suggestions for shortening the neckline and/or armholes? I'm sure any ideas you've got would be much appreciated. Thanks!

Anyone out there interested in a copy of the latest issue of Interweave Knits? Due to some mishaps at the post office regarding my change of address and the diligent work of the customer service department at Interweave Press, I now find myself with two copies of the magazine instead of none. Anyone up for a little trade?

It's their special occasion issue, which includes a pattern for a lacy little camisole that one of our Knitsmiths is making and a crazy article about a knitted wedding gown! And did you see the ad for that lovely 'how to knit' ribbon? Way cool. The perfect thing for wrapping up a little handknitted giftie! I managed to get my greedy little hands on some samples. No affiliation (and all that jazz), but in case you were wondering, here is the website listed for info on the ribbon. I'll be checking out the Massachusetts sources for sure!

(click on picture for close up)

So, any takers on the magazine (and maybe a little ribbon sample)? Email me with fun trade ideas!

Update: I'm already working out a trade for the mag. Now, if you have other cool trade ideas, let me know! I'm always up for a good trade.

I'm sailing along with Smooch, in too much of a hurry, I suspect, to get to that crazy neckline. Here's the finished back (I am so loving the color!). I tried to do short rows on the shoulders in preparation for three needle bind off, but I'm not sure how to do that when the shoulder shaping doesn't form a perfect angle in one direction. This pattern calls for the middle stitches to be bound off last, not those closest to the neck (which is what I ended up doing for the time being). After studying the directions for the front, I think the strange shoulder shaping is necessary because the front and the back actually have different numbers of shoulder stitches. Those extra stitches on the back really belong to the back of the neck, that is, the back neck is not all bound off at once straight across. Make any sense? Am I reading this pattern correctly? Maybe I'm just being dense and only imagining that this is a problem. I've only done the three needle bind off twice before: once with a straight shoulder on the Dale baby sweater and then with the perfectly sloped shoulders on the wannabe sweater. Anyone have some insight for me?

Looking at the back now, I'm thinking that the armholes, which I already shortened by one inch, still look a tad long. I'll most likely knit the front to what seems like the proper length and then change the back accordingly. Perhaps by then, I will have figured out the neck and shoulder bind off thing.

Even I can't believe it, but it's true: Smooch will be my fifth tank this summer. The deal is, I know I've got at least one more in me and in the stash - I've got a few balls of Cotton Ease in white white (yes, that's two whites!). Uh huh, tank girl six is in the planning stages. I really like the finished look of both Pagan and Smooch, so I'm thinking of crossing them somehow. Maybe Pagan with the cap sleeves, but the plunging neckline from Smooch. Maybe the v-neck Pagan with some frilly edging a la Smooch. I like the thought of kind of mixing things up a bit on this tank, after strictly following patterns for the first five. I'm imagining a sort of pretty, white, franken-tank, assembled out of design elements from its five predecessors. Fun!

I did no sewing last week, as the boys were having trouble sleeping and I didn't want noise from the sewing machine in the next room to add to the problem. Actual sewing content will have to be limited to this cute pic of B lounging in his fast pants. He's telling me to move out of the way so he can see Blue's Clues.

I spent my sewing time knitting, of course, and am almost done with my Smooch tank. I redid the shoulder shaping on the back. And I've even finished one shoulder on the front. One more shoulder and three needle bind off, here I come! Look at that, I'm even avoiding sewing in my knitting projects!

I couldn't help myself. I started the cute candy cane striped sweet heart sweater that I mentioned last week. What fun! It's so cheery. I'm having a heck of a time readjusting everything from sport to aran weight though. Especially since I'm also simultaneously reducing the pattern down from 2-3 year to 1 year size. Oh yeah, it's also a raglan! But with a little help from other patterns here and there, I think I can manage it. By the way, Rebecca recently posted that the color from her all seasons cotton tank bled quite a bit when she washed it in Woolite. When I heard that I got pretty nervous about my candy cane stripes. So I made one sleeve and immediately washed it to be sure that this sweater would work. I used Eucalan and thankfully had no problems whatsoever. Whew. New project on!

I picked up the yarn for this sweater and started fiddling with it because I finished the knitting on Smooch and was having a typical how-to-avoid seaming-and-darning moment. But with the help of my Knitsmith buddies yesterday, I made it through all the finishing. Smooch pictures tomorrow. Watch this space!

I give you Smooch, tank girl's sexiest tank yet.

A great success, despite the pattern being a bit annoying. For those still working, or waiting to begin, here's a quick summary (with links to the archives) of all the details of my Smooch. The picot edging was done as called for (following Johanna's helpful clarifications), but I reversed the decreases on the lace pattern for a smoother look. I used my new half-twisted decrease for all the left-slanting decreases, including lace, waist shaping, and eyelets at the neck. I started the neck on the same row as the beginning of the armhole and knit just as far as necessary to complete all the neck decreases before starting the short rows for shoulder shaping. The decreases for the neck were all done on eyelet rows (to make the eyelets nice and round) except for the second and third decreases which are more frequent and make the neck more scooped than a perfect V would be. Not sure that any inquiring minds really wanted to know all that, but there it is.

Good news: it's just gone warm here, so I may get a chance to wear Smooch (and my other tanks) yet!

More smooches: Wendy presented her finished Smooch yesterday - knit in record time, I'm sure! And it would seem that just as Wendy was finishing, Bonne Marie was casting on for her Smooch. Finally, all the way from Hamburg, comes a picture from Inga of her own Smooch in progress. We're everywhere, baby!

Less smooches: I relaxed yesterday by ripping out my old Smooch. Here it was looking more smoochy before and a bit less smoochy after. I'm so tempted to cast on for another one, but I do recall that I said I would try to rededicate the summer to the baby knits piling up in my to-do basket. I think this old Smooch yarn will find a much better home in one of the pipsqueak sweaters for the boys.

It's too hot. Inside. At night. Between having almost no desire to knit in this heat and trying to keep myself from casting on for tank girl six, I'm really in off mode here.

So today, by request, some pictures of how to work the half-twisted decrease that I learned at the Granite State Knit-In and posted about a few weeks ago. I'm not very good spatially and so can't work out what it would look like if you slipped the stitches back to the left needle before knitting them together. I'm pretty much a do-what-you-understand kind of gal, so I just do it like that.

Now I've got to put down this knitting and run through the fountain a few times with the boys!

With the heat and all, I've only been knitting small amounts in stops and starts. I stopped work midway through the front of the sweet heart sweater, but did manage to sew together the other pieces. I tried starting tank girl six about six times, but couldn't get the gauge right. I can't help wanting to knit the Cotton-Ease at a tighter gauge than the all seasons cotton. Now that the temperature will be getting back to normal, I hope to make some real progress on it. Although I still haven't decided exactly what it will look like. Since I have yet to make it past row three, it hasn't really come up yet!

We've survived the heat wave (without air conditioning). I'm hoping next week to be able to get back to both my knitting and sewing projects (and of course to get our honking, monster air conditioner finally installed!). The sewing machine and all the sewing stuff is upstairs where it was a good 90 degrees during the day and about 86 at night, so clearly I wasn't about to do any sewing. Knitting in the heat was also annoying, but with a fan blowing directly on me, I did finally successfully cast on for tank girl six. I've decided that it's going to be another Smooch, but without the lace and frills - just a comfy, white t-shirt sort of version of it. I actually completed quite a bit more of the Smooch-tee while on a knitting adventure yesterday. Tell you all about it tomorrow!

I promised you a story of my knitting adventure. Well, I'm not that adventurous, so I hope you weren't expecting too much! Our Knitsmiths founder, Dava, has organized field trips for us to go to some of the not so local yarn stores in the Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island area and this weekend we went to Webs ("America's yarn store!"). Now I know why so many people in this area make a pilgrimage to Webs once a year. What a great shop! I loved browsing through their books and patterns, including older issues of Vogue Knitting and Interweave Knits (had to pick me up one of these) and some older hard to find patterns, like this one, which I've wanted to get for a long time. The great thing about Webs is the yarn selection (oh, and the discounts!). I missed my Rowan yarns, but they have so many other wonderful yarns on display in the store and a whole open warehouse of coned yarn. I'm a little intimidated by coned yarn, having never worked with it, but I decided to give some fine gauge shetland a try for a Norwegian fair-isle sweater I've been longing to make.

I'm looking forward to swatching it to see how it knits up! Another Knitsmith, Johanna, is just starting her first fair-isle (progress pics to come!) and has reminded me how much I enjoyed knitting the Dale bug sweater. This means I'll probably be picking up the ladybug sweater soon to finish it and get myself psyched up to make this sweater for myself.

Speaking of the Knitsmiths, we had a great group yesterday, with two Smooches (Gina and Kerstin) and yet another area knitblogger, Claudia, who was knitting a tank in the most wonderful ribbon yarn (check it out on her blog!). Ribbon yarn was certainly the theme of the day, with no less than six knitters working with ribbon.

I was, of course, working on my white smooch tee. Not very adventurous, see!