Ruthless Knitting

I finished the first half of the Tokyo top on Friday and got it blocked. As the end approached, I grew increasingly concerned about the size: I had calculated that the top was going to grow quite a bit when I blocked it, since that’s what my swatches had done, but the finished piece was so small that I became convinced it was too small. I even came up with a plan to add side panels to make it larger. But then when I blocked it, it grew a lot, and it came out just the right size. 

Sometimes, it’s hard to trust the voice of experience. 

Here’s what it looked like when I draped it across my torso and took a picture of myself in my dimly-lit yellow guest bathroom.

I think I’m on the right track. The only bad news — and it seems like bad only to me, I suppose — is that this is taking a lot less yarn than I would have thought, so I will have a full ball of Tokyo left when I finish it. I like this yarn a lot, but when I’m done with this top, I’m done with the yarn. I don’t want to have to make something else with it. I feel a contest coming on!

Oh, and I upgraded Wordpress over the weekend. There’s a bug that’s giving me some trouble, but I think everything is working now. Let me know if you see any problems. Sigh.

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