It's up to the neckline shaping and underarm now. The way I have the neckline shaping written out doesn't look as good as I thought it would so I have paused for a bit while I consider the alternatives.As I show this as a work in progress keep in mind that these pieces are not blocked. Hopefully any irregularities will be reduced in the blocking.
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Looking good!
Since I don't know what neckline shape you have chosen, I'll just throw our my idea that it would look really good to mirror the pattern in the neckline shaping. ...this thought and $1.25 might buy a cup of coffee....
I'm not quite sure what you mean by "mirror the pattern" Nancy. This is a balanced rib. It looks the same coming as it does going. Unless you mean to use the "wrong" side of the pattern from the neckline up?
It's a V-neck with a shawl collar. I originally thought that I would carry 2 stitches of stockinette as well as one selvedge stitch up the front opening edge. Tried that and it doesn't look right. If I had ended the front edge with the 3 stitches in stockinette right from the ribbing on up it would have been okay, but I wanted to be sure to have 2 knit stitches at the side seam and that made me end with the alternating stockinette/reverse stockinette at the center front...with an additional selvedge stitch to attach the front band to.
What I am thinking I will do is just allow the pattern to flow right up to that selvedge stitch uninterrupted. It will require that I occasionally use purl decreases on the right side, but I think it will look fine. We'll see.
It looks great so far! I'm interested to see you work up that v-neck! :)
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