Toddler coat done finally!

I finally got it finished.  Not 100% happy with the front bands but not going to undo them.  My time for knitting and sewing is so limited that I have to accept that I can't produce perfect work.  Had I unlimited time I would undo the bands and do them again, but I don't and I have a skirt waiting to be made on my new sewing machine.

I did sew it up carefully so it can be worn either way.  The inside out way is different but I would have preferred to have the bodice the proper side.  In hindsight I could have duplicated the bodices and sewed them together with the right sides out.......but I didn't think about that at the time.

Always learning!

I made one of the sleeves yesterday for the baby coat,  Everything went perfectly and I had it done and my knitting room tidied up afterwards in an hour and a half.

Went back today to do the other one.

Was doing great but I forgot to change the rows per 10cm on the knit radar when I changed from stocking stitch to tuck stitch.

I was 14 rows into it when I realised it.

Having done this before I had a plan formulated in my mind to correct it rather than just take it off and start again.

The plan was to change the rows per 10cm then take the pattern back to where I should have changed it then click it back through on the new setting.

Great plan eh!

I did it and finished the sleeve to find out that I had done 14 rows less than the previous sleeve.

Drat!!!!

But why didn't it work?

Well, I was changing from 52 rows to 75 rows per 10cm.  2 knobs to adjust.  The first from 0-60 to 61-120. (Think that is correct without going back up to check).  The second knob from 52 to 75.

What I didn't know is that on 0-60 each click represents one row and on 61-120 one click represents 2 rows.

So I should have just moved it up 7 clicks to represent the 14 rows I had knitted.  I moved it up 14 clicks so it took me further up the pattern than I should have been.

Lesson duly noted!